As I mentioned yesterday, today we tackled the playroom. The playroom is a wine cellar that we converted into a playroom since the two bottles of wine we buy a year doesn’t really justify having an entire room dedicated to it. And since we have approximately 1,239,775 toys turning that space into a playroom seemed like a good idea. The problem is that the room is in the basement. Being ...
Deployment Day #64
Christmas tree is down! I spent most of the day trying to get all the business bookkeeping done from 2013. If I were to rank my least favorite things, bookkeeping would be close to the top of the list. But most of it is done and my girls went to the farm to play for the day so everyone is happy. Tomorrow we are cleaning out the playroom. If I were to rank my least favorite things, cleaning ...
Deployment Day #63
I think I should start a Christmas tree watch…. how long will Happy’s tree stay up?!?! Seriously, I think I’m going to take it down soon. Maybe. I thought I would take it down tonight, but then I got busy, so I didn’t. I’ve never had my tree up in January. Never. It seems strange to have it in my family room when we’re watching college football bowl games. Christmas trees and ...
Deployment Day #62
My Christmas tree is still up. Usually we take the Christmas tree down the day after Christmas, actually there have been a few years where the tree has come down on Christmas day. We put our tree up early so by the time Christmas roles around I’m ready for it to be gone! The funny thing is that usually I take it down by myself so the deployment has little to do with the fact that it is still ...
Deployment Day #61
I got a Facebook message from an old friend. She’s not old, she’s just been a friend for a long time. :-) She knew me during the first deployment and was at my house almost every day. She gets it. She also gets it because out of the last 36 months her husband has been deployed 30. 30. She told me to hang in there. She shared how last year she didn’t even put up Christmas decorations, ...
Deployment Day #59 & 60
I'm finally better. Well mostly better. Better enough to make meals and start cleaning up Christmas. Today the I spend five hours cleaning out the girls' room. Five hours. Who invented the Rainbow Loom?!?!?!?!?!?!? :) My sister is in town and that's always fun and a welcome distraction. The kids opened up their Christmas gifts from my sister last night and Cora got a little pair of hot pink ...
