Women Who Eat Chocolate

My carpet is coming tomorrow! Woo Hoo...........!!!!!!!!!! We will definitely be in the house by next week....all I can say is thank you God for giving me the patience to make it through!

Thought I would post a few pics of the kids rooms which we finished this week. The top one is Hunter's. He's going to have a graffiti wall which is not quite done yet. I might buy a mural that has graffiti already on it. Belle's side of the room---she had to have hot pink! Selena's sweet black and white stripes...very emo...it just fits her! She measured the stripes and everything...I love it. Some people might say our colors are crazy...but my kids love them. And how long are they at home? Not long, and I want them to enjoy their rooms--not be suffocated by them! Rock on to the the color extreme!

I love to watch my husband paint----he makes it look good! I go around and try to trim and it just turns out all wrong, and he swoops in and makes a super-straight edge and all is perfect again. I love him! Painting is almost done....two bathrooms two go. Upstairs bedrooms, hallway, living room, kitchen, and master bedroom--DONE! Carpet is ordered and being installed next week. My new refrigerator and dishwasher arrived yesterday and are installed......with ice and and water flowing out of the front of the fridge! :) Heather is coming tomorrow and we're going to tackle the bathrooms---git r done! All that's left after that is to start putting together a million things from IKEA---give me a drill and I'm ready to assemble some beds!

I'm tired...but it's a good tired. Almost done painting! I'll post pics later..... Go me...I hate painting but the girls and Hunter's rooms turned out fabulous..... Heather helped mom and I out today and we got alot done..... I'm so sad that Heath Ledger died..... Remind me never to trim purple again.....it can't be done..... But still looks fabulous ! My kids have awesome taste when it comes to colors.....and so do I..... I love my house.......

On Monday the painting will start! We already have a coat on some of the rooms, which we did as we had time, but now it'll start in earnest! Yesterday George and I went down to Lowes and bought 11 more gallons of paint which should finish us out. We should finish that next week, and then all that's left is to install the carpet and we already have that picked out. Within the next two weeks we should be able to move back in. I can't wait! Taking the kids to see "Cloverfield" today. It's a movie we've seen advertised now for about 6 months. It looks really good and I'm looking forward to seeing it. They've kind of been teasing us with the trailers.....nobody knows what it's really about.....but it looks creepy. I'll let you know if we liked it. EDIT: Cloverfield was a good movie...but I found out too late that it was filmed from the viewpoint of a person videotaping.....not good! Any movie that's filmed in a jerky motion is a movie t...

Finally getting around to posting some pictures of our IKEA trip! We had a blast while depleting my budget! Seriously, though, I had planned on buying a ton of stuff there. We bought beds for everyone, coffee tables, TV stands, nightstands, my bed comforters, quilt covers, pillows, sheets, tons of stuff for the kitchen (I'm talking fun metal things!), desks for everyone, desk chairs, lamps, clocks, alarm clocks, and a HUGE clock for me to hang in my living room....... The list could go on and on! I waited so long to be able to go out and buy the fun stuff, and I'm so glad I went to IKEA to get it all. I had been buying things here and there---dishes & mugs @ Homespun, candles, knick-knacks, and so forth. But I had saved most of my energy for IKEA. We took my Aunt & Uncle Warren and Fern Stutzman's big red 15 passenger van. They went along, mom, George, the kids, and I. We took out two seats in the back to make room for stuff. We ate at Bob Evans in New P...

It's around 7 and we're all getting ready to head off for Ikea in Pittsburgh, PA today. I've waited a long time to go there and get all my stuff for the house. We're getting beds and all sorts of fun stuff. Can't wait to get on the road.... :) I'll post about what we bought later!

Well, it's time to act. I'm sick of my body and want to change it. I had a doctor appointment on monday that ticked me off. It wasn't anything major, but I realized it's time to change something. I turn 40 this year and it would be awesome to be fit and trim going into a new decade. Imagine that....Missy---fit and trim! hahahahaha.....LOL Now that I've laughed at myself it's time to get busy. I kind of started on Monday after my appt., just stopped eating all the extra stuff I've been eating. It's amazing what goes into one's mouth..... I'm going to copy and paste the article I wrote for our church newsletter. It tells how I'm feeling: ********************************************************************************** The new year is here. It slowly creeps up on us like a shadow in the night.....a shadow that appears out of nowhere. It causes us to stop and reflect on what we've done the past year, or what we haven't done....

It's time to lose weight........sigh.