10 on Tuesday

1. Mark leaves for Orlando tonight. He is playing in the World softball tournament. Yay, go JMS!

2. The girls and I will be rather busy this week. Taryn had t-ball last night. Tonight and tomorrow night will be spent preparing for my Poppy Seed Party on Saturday. Thursday is dance night followed by her last t-ball game.....and more prep for Saturday.

3. This year I am glad I procrastinated on the Labor Day project. As stated a couple of posts ago, I pick a painting project to do over the long weekend. This year I had picked the girls' bathroom......now I am glad I didn't do it. We have talked for years about putting in a bathroom up stairs. When we were building we asked to have it roughed in. It wasn't and we were so ready to move in we let it go. Now in order for them to do it, they have to go through sheet rock. The main wall they need is the one b/w Taryn's room and her bathroom. THEY WILL NOT BE CUTTING THE SHEETROCK IN HER ROOM!!!!!!!! There is no way for me to repaint to match that. So I will put off that bathroom project until plumbing construction/patching is done! :)

4. Now on to the upstairs bathroom project. Mark and I have different views......he wants the whole attic to be converted. I don't. 1. I don't think we need a guest bathroom to be that large. 2. I don't want to give up the only full-height storage that i have!

5. Today is the first day of fall. :) Yippee! I feel a picnic coming on.....well, if only the rain would subside.

6. We worked on the garage this past weekend. a few years ago we painted the floor with "special" paint. it wasn't supposed to peel, made especially for that application. Guess what. It peeled. :( So we knew we got what we paid for. this time we went all out.....i wasn't thrilled because, of course, he chose the one that I didn't have a coupon for.....just because he could get the blue paint instead of grey......errrrr. and I had a 20% off coupon, and that stuff was just as good!

7. So our little "weekend project" spilled into Monday. Last night I was applying clear-coat sealant while he installed new casters on his work bench that we have only moved about 6 times before realizing those would be a good investment! Yay, us! We got all the big stuff in this morning. The rest will make in when I am good and ready to drag it from the shed because he will be gone til Sunday, and I think I have enough to do.

8. oh! Tyler is now 2 months old. She has found her voice and talks to us occasionally. She smiles too. It's the cutest thing!

9. I am trying to melt away the baby fat..... I walk during lunch (weather permitting), I try to get in some walking/running when we are at the park for ballgames, and I have reduced my calorie intake. I think I am doing okay, for the most part. I still have 13lb to go to get back to pre-prego weight. I don't really see 13lbs, but that's what the scale is telling me. I wonder if Mark has rigged the scale?

10. Maybe, just maybe I can get around to reorganizing my closet this weekend. I have only been trying to do that for the past four weekends. I pull out maternity clothes, which are "organized" into piles in the bedroom, and I have been bringing down totes and bags full of my regular clothes. Those are also "organized" in the bedroom. it's starting to drive me crazy looking at the mess....especially with people coming over this weekend, most of which have not been there and will most likely ask for a tour. I can't hide the bedroom, although, I can close the closet door! I think I see an episode of "Tom and Jerry" coming to mind......if I open the door I will be buried by a mound of stuff.