I'm living out of a plastic garbage bag

Every thing we own is in plastic. Those large black garbage bags are my fanciest of luggage right now. We have been dismantling everything in the house and I mean everything. We passed our electric and plumbing inspections this past week. Monday we have our framing and fire inspections. Wednesday they are spraying the closed cell insulation. I'm excited! This time when we get the kitchen cabinets back on the wall that is where they are going to stay! I'm never taking those things out again.

I still haven't gotten my car back from the auto body shop. I miss my baby. It took a long time to get my seat shaped perfectly for my big butt. For some reason it took forever to OK the $1500 additional work (bent axle) that was needed. I did get a call from my insurance company that the other woman took full responsibility for the accident so that was nice.

Some more good news my husband came home with a new camera for me on Valentines Day. YAY! Ah, it feels so good to have a camera again. I love it! Love it!!!! I have been going crazy taking pictures of the kids. So look for lots of pictures soon....

Well Duh

OK, I had a rather - well duh -moment yesterday. I love magazines. I have tons of magazines, I have been collecting. You know there is this great article I want to save in this one, and Oh that picture -it is the exact color I want for the walls in my kitchen. I used to rip them out and put them in a scrapbook. That only worked for the home decor type of pictures. Now I have recipes, photography books and gardening information. It really keeps adding up. So anyway yesterday I was photographing the kids artwork when it clicked. I don't hold on to all the kids work. Why should I hold on to my magazines? Yesterday I sat down with my camera and my stack of magazines and photographed all the things I was saving them for. Then I went to my computer and created a bunch of folders to put the pictures in. I now have all my info saved in their proper folders. It's so much easier to look in the craft folder for the craft I wanted to do with the kids than to search through the magazines. I would always forget which one it was anyway. So that was my well DUH moment.

Christmas Home Tours

Follow the link over to Boo Mamas for a tour of others Holiday decor.

This is the extent of our holiday decor. We are not very festive this year. It's a prelit so we didn't have to do a lot of work there. We didn't even hang ornaments. These are our Christmas cards. I usually hang the cards on our living room wall, but the wall is gone and I didn't know what to do with them. So now they are hanging on our tree.

A Little Visitor

The second wren to get into our house this week. This time I made sure I took a picture before opening the door to let her out. I wanted to look it up to find out what kind of wren it was. I knew if I didn't have a picture I would never be able to remember the markings. So, she is a Carolina Wren. I'm guessing she was looking for a warm place to hang out.

Vegetable Orchestra

very neat!

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