my bathroom

Today was the only productive day that I had in a week! Larry was home last week and left today so I had alot of laundry and many projects in my head that I needed to start. I do projects around the house to keep me busy and make the time go by quicker when Larry is gone. Doing this all by myself isn't fun for me so I try to do things that make me feel like I accomplish things. Hence, our bathroom. It has been on my mind for a few weeks. I hate the cat litter box and I wanted a big rug and a change.

This is how the new bathroom went down. I went to Costco yesterday got a nice size rug for under $15 and I have been looking all over for a rug for weeks and they are alot more than Costco! I got a new litter box at Target (but it is too small for the cats so I have to get a new one!), I put up my old coconut shower curtain that we got as a wedding gift that I had in the small bathroom before we had the kids and moved the silver shower hooks that were in the kids bathroom to our bathroom, declutter the counter, had a candle going all afternoon because it has been windy! Never know when the power would go out. Bleached and cleaned as well as I could before I put the new litter box and rug down. All and all I love my new bathroom. It still needs work but after I get another cat litter box and budget for cabinets over the toilet to put my towels in than I think it will be a done project!

Here it is the new look! I took this with my phone and no I didn't get a before pic I was working with adrenaline cause Hunter didn't go down for his nap and I banned him to the couch. So I attacked the bathroom :)

And yes it is a green rug with blue tiles. I was so shocked at the price at Costco I just went with what I thought would go the closest and it looks alot better in person. I promise!

Did I also mention I like to home decorate? I think this is my new calling. Decorating on a budget and using what you have. Maybe it will start something :)

in the dog house

I can't believe I haven't blogged in forever! I have been busy, lazy, and crazy. All at the same time. Life is just a blur right now. Grace survived having no sassy and they have all been removed! Thank goodness! The bad news is she keeps waking up at 5:30-5:45am since then. I even try keeping her up late but that doesn't work. So I have ordered the goodnite lite and I hope that works for her. I haven't taken one single picture from my camera I have been taking them on my phone so I am bringing out my camera today or this week. Hunter is going to be 4 in 10 days I can't believe it. I am planning his birthday party and super excited about it. Hope Larry is home for it but probably not. We are getting the kids bikes for their birthday's so we will get them later next month. I am so close to being done with another credit card debt! It is my Discover card that I had when I was single and living by myself. That was way to long ago and I should have paid it off years and decades ago. I transferred my Discover card to Onpoint so I can keep track of it better and the interest was way lower. So in the dog house with my past debt but feeling the relief a little bit with what I have left. I have one more debt to pay off and transfer to Onpoint and pay off some other stuff and then all I will have left is my student loans but I don't see myself paying that off until the kids are in college. So for the most part in the last year and a half I have paid off over $13,000! Yeah! We also are going to get a dishwasher soon! I thought we would order it this week but Larry wants to be home when it comes so we are on hold but that is ok I will just keep cleaning by hand and paying of this debt I am working on. So there you go my life in a nut shell. I will try to be better at blogging. But the house is calling my name to clean it. I have to take pics of my bedroom it is almost complete! Just need to get one more dresser and clean the closets and it is done! I am working on my bathroom at the moment but I have to clean and bleach the floors than the cats have a new litter box area and rugs go down! Then I have my laundry room project I have to move all my arts stuff and put all the kids toys in the shelves so it has been a slow work in progress. So these are just a few of my projects going on!

no more sassy!

My big girl loves her sassy (pacifier). She asks for it when she doesn't have it and she asks for it with her long list of things she needs with her on the couch. Mama can you get my sassy, my kitty cat, my puppy dog, my pink blanket, my blue blanket and my Dora blanket. No lie she asks me this about 2-3 times a day and more on the weekends. So I wanted to eliminate one of the items from her big ole long list. Hunter tossed his in the trash at his Ma's house a couple weeks before he turned 3 so I am way ahead on Grace. The reason is she is too darn smart and if I don't take it away now she will have it until she is 10 I just know it. I was going to get rid of it before she turned one but the drama in my life wasn't going to happen then. She also is getting a big overbite and she has a big gap between her two teeth always has but seems to be getting bigger. And her dentist said that if she got rid of her pacifier her gap would get smaller and her overbite will to. So she has an appt soon so I better get cracking. She was twitterpatted yesterday to say the least when I told her it was gone. So much that I was about to just toss in the towel and give it to her. Which I did but I gave it to her after I cut the top off. I didn't poke holes in it I just wanted it totally destroyed. She wasn't happy with it and wanted the other piece put back together. By the afternoon she wanted to piece found still and we were in the car and I had told her that the other piece must have been eaten by Misha or Kramer. She kept saying that they had to give it back to her and that she would look in their mouths. Hunter kept telling her that was a no we don't put our hands in their mouths they could bite us. Totally got that from me! She didn't go down well at all for her nap but after an hour or longer she finally lost the battle and feel asleep on my bed. She went to bed great that night and woke up asking for her sassy with the long list of other items. I told her it was gone she had a mini breakdown and I got the broken sassy and she didn't want it and hasn't asked for it since. :)