Katie asked to go to the park. I asked if she put her costume away and if her towel was hung up. She said yes. So imagine my surprise to walk upstairs later—after she’s long gone to the park—and see this on the floor.
These lies happen all the time these days and it’s exhausting.
I just put some makeup on for the day since I’m about ready to go meet a neighbor! For as much as I love the crazy colors and am feeling more comfortable in them, my heart still lies with the naturals…
▪️ Sandstone Pearl Shimmer ShadowSense
▪️ Cinnamon Shimmer ShadowSense
▪️ Precious Topaz LipSense
Douchebag teens? Check. We ran into some driving home from the playground.
They were on bikes and wouldn’t get out of the street (they obviously knew I was behind them) and then glared at me as they leisurely criss-crossed in front of me to the side of the street and I drove past. Then they made sure to stare me down as they caught up to us and rode past our driveway blaring their R-rated rap music. Like seriously?
If anyone ever sees my kids acting like that in the future, you have my blessing to drop kick their asses and teach them a lesson.
Amazingly, all the kids played really well together for like two hours.
So this might be a little bit much for two play dates at the park today but I wanted to wear my blue Lularoe cardigan so I wanted to try matching my eyes just because I’ve gotten a little too complacent wearing the same exact colors every single day. I also added the tiniest bit of Medium CCTM because my face is getting a slightly bit darker even though I’m staying out of the sun as much as possible.
I took the pics a little later than normal and my birch trees were starting to be a little shadow-y. So then I just did it in my bathroom so you could maybe see the shadows better.
Anyhoo, the Garnet definitely looks darker in person. And though I have been enjoying not wearing LipSense as much…my face does look kinda naked without it. 😂
First, home demo. (Masks off for a pic!)
I finished my look after Angel left… I forget how good Mirage is. And Cinnamon Shimmer.
Second, a visit with a friend/playdate for the kids.
Third, an unexpected driveway visit with the people who are living in our old rental house (I was dropping off some stuff were accidentally moved that belonged to the owners).
Fourth, an unexpected trip to our park to visit with Hannah, a friend I hadn’t seen in a long time. (The kids went down there randomly and were surprised to see their friends who don’t live in this neighborhood!)
Fifth. Bag collection, sorting, and folding by the kids. They didn’t love it. Didn’t care. It was something they could do.
So one of the neighbor guys (completely unrelated to any of the women I met) came over and invited Tom to a beer night!
While he was gone he texted me this:
And then didn’t answer…for like five minutes! So I was all freaking out. Then he finally continued…
It turns out all the guys (couples) had been friends of the past owners!
That was all I heard from him until he walked in around 11:30. He didn’t say much—which made me a little crazy because I wanted to know all about them. I found out in the morning that he was a little more drunk than he thought so he just went straight to bed. Haha.
They spent their first night out there last night while I was at my mom’s night. Tonight Tom is at a guy’s night (totally separate from the moms I just met!) so they’re out there again! They love it!!
It was supposed to be a quick and easy project: repaint the front door. Tom had a new paint sprayer and it should have taken 30 minutes. Should have being the key phrase.
Tom started to paint the door and got clumps and spatter and he had no idea what was wrong and it was drying and it was a disaster. He tried to fix it with what he had handy (all our paint stuff was obviously packed away) and I was trying to be helpful by googling the brand of paint and the brand of sprayer and hints but it was just not a good time.
Longer story short, turns out the sprayer hadn’t been fully cleaned after the last job. Doh! Lesson learned. So once that was fixed—and once the door was scrubbed with hot soapy water and then sanded—the door was painted in about two minutes.
Thankfully we had enough paint left to do the door…plus my cement Michigan!
BUT THEN! We had also wanted to put new hardware on and that was an epic disaster. It took FIVE attempts (from least to most expensive!) over a week to get working hardware:
But it looks good!!
So I’ve been chatting with the ladies I met from my “ad” for friends and tonight we had a meet and greet at a house down the street—so I walked there with my bag of margaritas! We all sat around the fire socially-distanced style and visited for hours! Everyone was great and I am totally excited about being friends with them! It went so well that I was there until almost 2am! (Yes I was the last one there but not by much!)
We decided where a shed needs to go and these lillies were in the way. Anna said people would love them and to offer them for free. So we did. And now they’re gone with no work on our part! Yay!
Solo stove fire going. I’m drinking. Tom is cutting wood from our trees with a chainsaw. Katie just put on an Elena princess dress. Owen is talking about mages and normal knight boots?!
My goal might be to get one single room done. But then it quickly gets filled again when you start working on another room. So every room is a hot mess.
I was talking to a friend on the phone and she was like it can’t be that bad so I took these photos. Ha. Proved her wrong!!
Apparently working multiple long days unpacking boxes and squatting to load cabinets and going up and down our stairs 18 times a day took its toll on me…and both my knees finally screamed STOP. As in I pretty much couldn’t walk. I powered through yesterday because it was just mostly annoying—and I tried to take it easy—but today I was totally out of commission. Thankfully Heidi came to my rescue with a great ice wrap (all of our stuff is packed somewhere) so I spent my whole day on the couch. Fun times!
Note: After two days of rest, ice, and elevation the pain is gone but towards the end of the day I can feel it starting to hurt so now I have a brace!
Brandon has been a friend since we moved here in third grade and he always misses the party because he’s in Michigan at grandparent camp. So, it’s a bummer he’s missing that…but at least he gets a friend’s party!
So this is what happens when you “clean” your room by shoving everything into your closet after mom clearly says that’s not the solution—mom dumps it all in the middle of the room!
No, they don’t need immaculate rooms, but it also shouldn’t look like a garbage pit less than two weeks after moving in. It took her ALL DAY yesterday to do about an hour’s worth of actual work (because kids) but now it’s at least decent.
And honestly, it was this or it was all going in the garbage. That’s where I’m at with all their crap.
It’s cramped from things still being unpacked (any flat surface attracts crap!) and the lighting is awful (I love the lamp but it’s more of a nightlight not a work light)…but at least I’m set up for the day!!
On another note, it’s already a Monday. 😒 Kids. 🤬
I found this couch for CHEAP on Nextdoor and knew it would be perfect for the basement…but the basement was FULL of boxes. Like floor to ceiling in this room (I can’t believe I forgot a before pic). So yesterday it was my mission to clear out enough space so we could get the couch. I busted my ass (the kids barely helped, of course) and Tom helped move what I couldn’t finish into the corner and voila!
I also threw out a random invitation to a bunch of my new friends that if they wanted to come over they were welcome… No one could make it, but then one couple was out on a walk and saw my message and stopped by to meet us! This is definitely the kind of neighborhood I want to live in.
Our school district (Woodland Community Consolidated School District #50) announced tonight that we will have full remote learning until October 30 at a minimum. Honestly I’m relieved since I had decided to keep them home (but was STILL secretly wondering if I’d made the right decision) so I’m glad they actually made that decision for me.
Lots of people are upset and I feel badly for them. And don’t get me wrong I’m not looking forward to remote learning (even if it is 2.0) but the health and safety of the students and staff are of the utmost importance. I’d rather have my kids be behind a bit in school but be alive to catch up. (And, frankly, all kids are going to be behind since we’re all in this together.)
We just have to remember this is all new and we’re all doing the best we can. We will survive.
You would think that I would’ve been completely overwhelmed before this point in the move but today I think is it. I just can’t get started on anything and I have so much left to do.
The office is kind of picked up and I have things randomly on shelves but nothing is how I want it and my printers aren’t hooked up so I couldn’t even ship something out if I wanted to. So you would think that would be the first thing I needed to do.
But I really want the kitchen to be put together because it makes me crazy to walk in there and I can’t prepare a meal because there’s stuff all over the place.
And I really wanna get my bathroom set up because that’s where I need to work and do lives but it doesn’t feel comfortable yet and so I feel like that’s the most important thing.
I could go on and on but I’ll stop there.
I just need to get back into my groove and I know that it takes time after moving but I’m kind of going crazy feeling like it’s taking too long AND I JUST WANT TO GET BACK TO NORMAL.
A few pieces went away, a few are in the fridge, and some are awaiting their matches (and if we don’t find them, out they go). Not too bad. This will all get rearranged when Tom cuts these apart and puts in pull-out drawers. (I can’t wait because it kills me that there is so much wasted space!)
Anna didn’t believe me when I said I had A LOT of kitchen stuff. Today we tackled the plastic storage. She also couldn’t believe we use all of this and I assured her we use the majority of it. (We were matching lids so these will condense but it’s still a lot.)
So I admit it’s a bit frightening to see ALLLLL your plastic storage out at one time…. But that’s what happens when you move and have to find a new home for everything!!
Yes it seems like a lot, but we really do honestly use most of these. I freeze a lot of food and we’ve been eating out of the freezer to prep for the move so most of these will go back in the freezer once I start cooking again!
Are you a storage fiend like me? Or am I insane?
They were running late so this is where Owen was perched, desperately waiting.
and amazingly it’s not even due to the children. It’s Comcast/Xfinity.
When we called to get service at the new house two weeks ago, long story short we switched mobile service to them because we could get 50% off. Switching SIM cards would be a super easy process—basically just switching one for another. Easy peasy.
HA. HAHA. HAHAHAHAHA.
By the time we got the SIMs our house was packed up so we didn’t have access to our laptops and the process really couldn’t be completed easily on the phone. When we finally did manage to complete it there was an error and when we called the given number the wait time was over an hour. We tried this twice.
Last night, we unpacked the laptops and tried one more time, still had problems, so I tried to get on chat while Tom called. After 45 minutes on hold (and still getting an automated message that we had over an hour wait), Comcast just hung up on him. I managed to get a chat rep and and she initiated both activations. Tom’s phone worked immediately; mine did not. We were told to give it to morning.
Nope. This time I got the most idiot chat person ever–it took five minutes of waiting plus me asking “Hello? Are you there?” for him to say he was waiting for me and he needed me to verify my account (but he hadn’t asked for that). Then he couldn’t tell that a mistyped “ues” means yes and kept leaving me on hold without answering my questions and then eventually said if my phone still isn’t activated by tonight call back and escalate.
We haven’t had any issues with Xfinity internet but so far mobile service leaves something to be desired.