I would really love to be uploading more pictures onto this blog, but that will have to wait until Friday, one of my OFFICIAL days off that I take each year. There is another one, but I can’t remember when it is, I think may be January first, yes, that is the other official day off that I take…. Obviously I am due for one!
It is the day before Thanksgiving when we will have 24 here for dinner and more by the end of the evening as our single guys will come here for desserts. I was planning to eat dinner around 1-2 on Thanksgiving but then realized that there was a Packer game to contend with. Don’t you think these game organizers could ask a woman when the best time for a game would be on a national day of feasting?? WHO puts a game at 12:00???? There is no way I would want to have everything ready for a feast let alone be eating it by 11:00. That is TOO early in the day and we do not eat the Thanksgiving meal in front of the game…. no way! I bravely suggested to Rick and the girls that we could eat at 1:00, that they could miss a little of the game and be done eating in time to watch the second half. Let’s just say that there were no words needed to express their opinion on that idea, the looks were enough.
SO….. we will have folks over to watch the second half of the game and when the game is over we can then start our Thanksgiving meal. It will be fine. Packer games do bring out a fun time, well, that would be IF they win :)
I am not ready! I have been without a washing machine for one week. I have been staining and varnishing the new windows in our living room. On Monday when I took a look at the living room I decided that since everything was off the windows that I may as well paint the living room while we are at it. I don’t know, call me the denial queen….. others have
. So my sweet husband went back to the hardware store with my color swatch ( I had been to the hardware store 2 hours before but did not realize at the time that I was going to be inspired to paint!) and came home with two gallons of paint, commenting that he hoped it was the right color in a dubious tone. I, still in denial mode, plowed ahead with my plans and after finishing the staining went into paint mode. I started on the biggest wall and after a few rolls of paint started to feel a sickening dubious feeling come over me as well. My color, Maple Leaf, was looking more like lemon souffle and I was worried. My sweet daughters bravely commented on how the color could work, it might not be so bad, maybe a second coat will correct the problem…….. yikes! I knew that two trips to town was one over our allowance so I was not going to be going in to get a different paint. I decided to NOT doubt myself with the color, to trust the sweet man who mixed the paint and pray blessings on him while I painted. By the time we were on the second wall it was starting to look the color I had chosen, a light golden wheat. By the third wall I was thrilled and everyone (except Rick who was being Switzerland) agreed that the color was perfect! I finished the second coat at 8:00 Monday night.
I was really on a roll yesterday until Rick told me that my second coat of polyurethane could not be put on for 48 hours. I thought he had said 4-8 hours and had envisioned putting the second coat on last evening, putting trim on today and then hanging curtains up and rearranging the living room to have it just perfect for company. ENUNCIATION is everything!!!! Now I am envisioning having the trim on but no curtains. It is a good thing that this will not matter to our dear friends. Someday (coming soon) we will have a house with siding all the same color and lights on the porch and a few other things finished. We will not know how to act!
So today is cleaning…. all the corners that are a mess from focusing on the window work. Getting the school-room ready for Matthew, dealing with some laundry as it is beginning to pile up and getting the kitchen and menu up and ready for the morning. What fun…….. Rick is going to put the trim on around the windows. It is raining outside and I have a bad feeling that some cutting will need to be done IN the house. I guess I will do the dusting last!
On Friday I will put the last coat of poly on and maybe later that night hang the curtains. I will also add photos to this blog as we watch Little Women, a Thanksgiving tradition.
So much to be thankful for…
Blessed, even in the chaos!
Joyce



















































































































