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October 2, 2006
Weekend with the Goseys and a few changes
On Friday afternoon we drove down to Atlanta to spend a weekend with the Goseys. It was so much fun and nice to be with good friends.
During the day we tried to wear the girls out at different parks and we all ended up joining in on the fun. Although JoyLynne and I realized that our upper body strength is not what it used to be when playing on the monkey bars, or it could be the nearly 100 lbs of additional weight that we are carrying in comparison to the first grade!
Check out more pictures of our weekend!
After spending the weekend in the Goseys home, we are newly motivated to fix up our own house. It was fun to hear their dreams and plans and Andy and I came home with dreams and plans of our own. We've decided to put in a stone patio on the lower part of our back yard and clean up the top part. Hopefully it will be within our budget, I'm still waiting on the quote. We'll tackle the front of the house next season. After putting the girls to bed on Sunday evening, we cleaned out our room and closet and rearranged the furniture. Our bed is in a totally new spot and its a lot bigger. It's a great change and has strangely made me more excited about our little house. I was considering painting our cupboards and sort of putting off the kitchen all together but have be thinking now (after talking with a wise friend, that would be you Lisa-LOL) that I might just clean them up with steel wool and repoly them and do my countertops to match the dark wood. The cabinets are in great condition and there is really no reason to paint over them accept the laminate I fell in love with doesn't go with dark wood. But I am reworking my plans and I'll fall in love with new laminate. My friend who is an interior designer is coming over on thursday to pick up some thank you cards I designed for her and to help me with color decisions. I am so excited. I just spent nap time putting a coat of paint on some shutters that we have has in our garage for at least 2 years. Those bad boys are going up this weekend!
I have also convinced Andy that we need to start setting the alarm in the morning. This is probably the hardest change of all. My husband and I are both selfish selfish people when it comes to sleep. (I'm not bashing him at all, he would readily admit this is true) And each morning we have the same discussion about who is going to get the girls while trying to nudge the other one out of bed. There are days when one person will get out of bed without complaint inorder to do something nice for the other one but there are also days where we end up a tad grumpy and bitter. It's so sad, I know! We're pitiful. Anyway, I got the epiphany that if we set the alarm and beat the girls up and have time to adjust and time to ourselves and who knows- maybe even a quiet time, then our days might start out much better. This was our first morning, and oddly Julia beat us up, but it was nice that it was the alarm that got us out of bed and not a guilt trip by the other person. I think its going to pay off but its going to be a bit of work because we are NOT morning people.
Before I sign off, I wanted to list out some of Lizzie's imaginary friends before I forget. I've been meaning to do this for a while since she comes up with the most hilarious names:
Seeya (this was the first one)
Haynook
Madison (not so weird, I know)
Milly
Jary
The Roast (I have no idea what this means!)
Rizzery (her dog)
| By JennR | 3:53 PM
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While watching Lizzie play on the playground, I noticed that she seemed to be talking to a whole group of kids (all while playing by herself). I asked her who her friends were and what their names were and she answered "you know, Seeya and . . . stuff. . . Sometimes I forget about Seeya but she is my friend" I love Lizzie and her imagination.
Posted by: jlg at October 8, 2006 9:40 PM