Chantel reminded me

Thinking of ornaments.... I need to buy A's "Fairy Messenger" ornaments, last year and this year. I also wanted X to have the "Santa's sweet ride" series, so I need to buy last year and this year too. See my mom said she wanted the tradition of buying their ornament, bought Alison 2 years worth, then quit. So I guess it's left up to me to continue it.

I also found one I really love that my grandma would have absolutely loved. This ornament is totally her. She loved christmas, white, ornaments, and pearls. So I MUST get it! Always Remembered"

more change

I've been needing change lately. Selling the couch may have started something! With the empty space in our living room, it has given me room to move things around. So I've come up with a plan to rearrange some of the bigger furniture in our house to hopefully give us some extra room or at least a new purpose. My dining room is now like 3 rooms in one. I moved my craft area to the window area. Moved the dining table (that we don't use) next to the wall (perpendicular to the china cabinet) so it's the first thing you see when you walk in the room. Then I moved X's changing table, which is actually a roll top desk, to where my craft desk area used to be. As pictured, it's past life served me very well. It was the BEST changing station I could have ever asked for, used for both kids.

Now the changing table has a new purpose. Closer to what it was originally intended to be used for. Instead of writing, it's now the computer desk. I think it looks nice and it works well to fit all of our gadgets. Ignore the mess to the left, my craft towers need to be cleaned up, my project tomorrow.

Well Christmas is done and over with in my house. All decorations are put away. I dragged my elliptical in from the garage to fill it's place. I really need to get my butt back in gear. I think if I can get it in my living room, it'll give me more excuse to use it while I watch our jumbo tv.

We sold our couch today! Thank goodness! I was so sick of that thing. I hated the hunter green and reclining ends. It was so uncomfortable to sleep on if you ever had to. I am praying I can get the cute microfiber couch I really want tomorrow. Hopefully it's not already gone. I plan on painting the one main wall in our living room a sage green. I will also use that same green to paint our room. It really needs an update, badly! I've put my bedroom furniture on craigslist too. Though now that I think of it, I really just want to sell the bed. I might be able to do some house rearranging tomorrow and put pieces in different rooms. Maybe that will solve my ackward house decor issue. We just have a lot of huge furniture and not enough space for it all. I think I'll still try to sell it though. We could use the space.

Merry Christmas!

It's christmas day! Sadly, I have not gone to bed yet. Hit with insomnia. I managed to get all the wrapping done by 1 am which is amazing, especially compared to last year. I can't wait to see the excitement on my kiddos faces tomorrow as we go through the whole gift extravaganza.

I also can't wait till the stores reopen. I've got money burning a hole in my pocket. Not really, I CAN hold on to money (unbeknownst to my husband), but there are some scrap booking items I've got my eye on. Must grab them before others do!

Postage fail

see more pwn and owned pictures

I like how this person even left the postal worker a $0.05 tip. How generous lol!

try again

Seems all my friends are located here, so might as well jump on the band wagon. Hopefully I don't get burnt again. If all else fails, I can always delete like poor "Happily.blogspot.com" and the many others. I've kept "Aliepoo" but just for archival sake.

Since we have added a new addition to our family, I thought it fitting to have a new journal. That way I can post about both kids at the same place. I will keep this site open as an archive site, just won't be updating it.

The new web journal will have password protected posts. Email me if you would like the password (nicolev911@yahoo.com).

The new site is located at: vkids.blogsome.com