I think this post will be most coherent and efficient if it is in list form. So, in no particular order, my thoughts:
-Ali [the Bachelorette, if you live in a cave] is not natural to me. She is being marketed as the "natural, everyday girl," and it's just coming across as trying too hard at certain moments to me. Plus, her outfits confuse me. One minute she's channeling Flashdance with an off-the-shoulder number, and the next minute she's wearing a champagne-colored, gathered-skirt prom dress situation. Mixed sigs.
-I had a spontaneous girl's night with my little sister the other night. We randomly decided to go get snow cones and see a movie. The whole time, I was thanking the Lord for the gift of living near my family. It was so, so special and fun for me. We saw Letters to Juliet and I LOVED it!! So sweet, and only rated PG, which is refreshing. We shared popcorn and laughed a lot. It was a blast, and I look forward to many more nights like that!
-I am so, so thankful that we're having some things done in the house on the front-end (as opposed to putting it off and it never getting done), but it's a bit tiring having third parties in your house all the time. I have LOVED my painter (if you're in my area, let me know if you want his info), and more carpet people come tomorrow, but I'm just ready to have a little break. They are precious people, but I need a shlumpy day where I don't have to get all fixed so early.
-My wallpaper came in for the powder bath. I am SO excited, because I had doubts it would get here. I found said paper in a Dallas Lowe's with my aunt, but then waited to order it from my Lowe's once I had the correct measurements. Well the girl working at Lowe's, bless her heart, just didn't have the skills of my Texas employees. At first, she told me that my Lowe's doesn't carry that paper. I told her that she just needed to type in the model number and it would show up. She insisted that my Lowe's is behind the times. Now, I don't find this hard to believe, because my little town does tend to be slower on trends, products, stores, and the like. But Lowe's is a pretty big chain. Well, turns out she typed in one letter wrong in the model number. no biggie. THEN she told me my wallpaper total would be $416 (that's for a 5'x6' bathroom, folks). I told her there is no possible way on this planet that I would deck out my POWDER BATH in $416 worth of wallpaper. I have expensive taste sometimes, but I have my limits. She had calculated wrong and my total came to $160. So needless to say, when I opened my package today and found that I had the correct pattern and number of rolls, I was thrilled. So now I need to hope we calculated correctly for how much I need. I'll keep you posted.
-My daughter is sleeping in the room adjoining mine. We're spending the night at my parents' because the carpet ripper-uppers are coming at 7:00 am. I am so pleased when my daughter is near me (which is nearly all the time). She wears me out from her activeness, but what a joy she is. Sigh of contentment.
-I'm really excited about our trip to Disney in October.
-I enjoy staying at my parents' because I always take the laptop to bed and catch up on blogs. It is so soothing.
-Evs has needed a little extra soothing before naptime and bedtime lately. She is so cuddly, and I love it. I rock her until she's drowsy and then put her down so she doesn't lose the skill of going to sleep on her own. But I LOVE rocking that little girl. Her new room has already become very dear to me. I like the view from where I rock her. I just look at her room and sing Disney songs. It has become my happy place.
-The song "Go the Distance" from the Disney movie "Hercules" is playing right now. It's one of my favorites.
-I'm sleeping in my sister's room here, and on the wall there are pictures of us when I was about 5 and she was 1. Now that I have Evy, I think of everything differently. I look at those pictures and I'm thinking, "I'm at the stage my parents were when those pictures were taken. They were a young couple with young kids, really just getting started in life." That's where Kurt and I are. I have no idea if this makes sense, but it's interesting to be in this chapter, because I remember when my parents were in it too.
-I REALLY miss Lis. She's counseling at Pine Cove and it's just not the same without her.
-I REALLY miss Will and Punky. They're at camp with our student ministry and it's just not the same without them.
-I think I might do a whole post about church yesterday. It was so special for me, as my first Sunday permanently at Lynwood. So many emotions, and it was a wonderful day for me.
-THANK YOU for all of your sweet, sweet comments about our new house. I hope you understand that I didn't publish that post with the intention of getting praise or compliments. My motives were pure in just wanting to share it with you, because all of you have watched this move unfold and have been so sweet and supportive. I'll show you progress pictures as I have them. :)
-I'm sure there's a lot more in this head of mine, but I'll cut it off for now. Also, once I get my card reader hooked up, I'll post pictures of the star of this blog, Evy Kate. She has made quite a splash on her new town and melts hearts everywhere. :) We are really missing Kurt. We had to say goodbye yesterday, and it was so hard for me. It makes me appreciate military wives with my whole heart. They are heroes! I will see Kurt on my birthday weekend, June 19, for his graduation, and then we're apart again until June 30th. Bitty won't see him until the end of the month. :( Today my mom and I were showing her pictures in her first year photo book I made and we pointed to "Daddy." She put her little head on the page and "love loved" Daddy. I thought I was going to absolutely die right there. It was the sweetest, most adorable thing I've ever seen. Husband/Daddy, we LOVE YOU!
Talk to you soon :)
