the monday update

good monday morning! what a cold weekend. all i could think of all weekend was summer and those wonderful 100 degree days--i cannot wait for them to get here! i want to be tan and wear flip flops~not pasty white and covered from head to toe in winter wear. sigh. only a few short months. big sigh.

here's what i saw when i opened the washing machine to take out an old velour-type blanket that we were using outside for dreamcicle. what a mess. i am still finding green shreds in my laundry!
thursday morning the phone rang at 6 something. knowing no one else would call me that early, i jumped from my warm bed, not bothering to get my glasses and raced to the kitchen where the phone was, expecting to hear danielle panting on the other end of the phone. it was, however, not my sister in the throes of labor, but the automated school message telling me school was canceled. what? i even told chris, "they just canceled school because it's cold?!?" apparently, though, there was a good amount of ice on the roads--so no school for us! yippee! (once my heart didn't feel like it was going to beat out of my chest i was very excited. it took me a little while to calm down though. if sadie doesn't come soon, i am going to have a heart attack--i just know it.)
i sat in bed and read and watched the news until mckinlee came walking in with a troubled look on her face. she thought i'd forgotten to wake her up! i asked what she wanted for breakfast and she informed me that she'd never had breakfast in bed. poor child. i told her today was her day! we had pancakes, fruit and scrambled eggs. so yummy--especially in bed!

in other news, my scrapbook room has been as disaster. this was my organizational project this past week--and i got a lot done! nothing's been done with all my stampin' up stamps, but that is my project this week!
this was what my desk looked like. looking at that has been making my heart race for weeks. it just all seemed overwhelming and i couldn't find a place to start. but i finally was motivated and was just going to do a little. i kept telling myself to just get the desk cleaned off and not think about anything else.

and this is what it looked like less than a hour later. why, oh why, do a put things off? it didn't take nearly as long as i thought. as an added bonus...underneath all that schtuff was a partially completed scrapbook page.
so not only did i organize, i also did something creative and finished my layout. i was so proud. i organized sunday too and got almost everything cleaned up off the floor. i'll post those pictures later this week.
saturday night we went over to kevin and michele's for dinner and to watch football. we had cheese ravioli, gnocchi with a spicy cream sauce, salad, bread, jalapeno/bacon/cream cheese bites, 3 layer yellow cake with chocolate icing and an incredible cheesecake with homemade caramel sauce. we stuffed ourselves and i felt sick the rest of the night. good times.

here's edway and emily before dinner.
there was a group watching the game...
some working on a puzzle...
and some reading scrapbook magazines. (betcha didn't know what group i'd be in!)
here's what my view looked like most the night.
mckinlee in her cute outfit.

and keeping up with zane!
we had such a fun time.
sunday before the meeting, i put a crockpot full of lentils and ham to cook while we were gone. this is not one of my favorite meals, but i did it lovingly for my husband--and he loved it. me? not so much.
it's grocery day for me--and i don't have any meals planned yet. i hate that.
have a great day :)