Saturday, July 17, 2010

Nothing says style like SeaFoam!

When we bought our house, the lady who sold it gave us a matching set of living room furniture. She was moving into her parents home to take care of her mother and had no room for it. This was very generous of her. We received said set: a love seat and matching chairs. They were little....very little, and sea foam green, like from the 50's! But they were still comfy and in great condition. That didn't last. Sydney has spilled every substance imaginable on this furniture in addition to drawing all over it with everything she could get her hands on. And turned it into her personal jungle gym! The fabric has withstood some heavy duty cleaning over the past 2 years, since I've scrubbed the living daylights out of it on several occasions (red koolaid will come out if you're more stubborn!) And the seat covers have been washed more times than I can remember. Which is why now it has come time to get a new living room set. Upon removing the covers from the dryer this last time, everything fell apart literally. I may be talented with a sewing machine, but there was no saving this old dinosaur. We even lost one side of a zipper! The size of this set is so tiny that it's prevented us from being able to find a slip-cover that will fit, and I just don't have the time to make a custom one. We'll miss the sea foam green, but I think I'm looking forward to getting "big people" furniture for a change.

Cleaning and Christmas

This week Sydney and I took a trip to the homestead minus Jess (he had to work). My Meme had asked me to teach a class on homemade cleaning supplies for RS and my mother had volunteered my sisters and I to sing for the community's Christmas in July celebration. The class went really well. The ladies all laughed when I offered them a drink of the homemade disinfectant (it really is safe to drink, but the flavor's awful). And they were really impressed at what vinegar can replace. I think the favorite though was the homemade liquid soap. They all had to use it!
As far as the singing goes, it was fun but frustrating. I think that the next time we get volunteered to sing again we'd better have more say so in what kind of music we get to sing. We were told (by Mom) it had to be gospel music, and that there were several churches participating (all of which were to sing gospel music). Me thinks the mother told us what SHE wanted us to sing and omitted other details. Turns out there were NO other churches participating and the other singers were singing Broadway hits or something along those lines. We weren't even listed as a Church singing group in either the paper or the fliers. We SO could have sounded better with Broadway songs or Oldies or almost anything else! Especially since we'd have an advantage being the only non-solo singers. Plus we always get talked into singing the same songs over and over again. It get frustrating since we have such a wide range in what we can sing. Oh well....next time (cause there will be a next time, we're locally famous and get volunteered a lot) We're going to push for what we want to sing. OK enough venting......

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Sydney is sick. Poor baby. Just a common cold, but enough to make her miserable. She's lounged around the house for the past two days and keeps waking up at night because she's congested. That for her is very unusual, since she sleeps like a rock and won't hold still during the day. She's pretty much slept with us at night so we don't have to keep getting her up out of bed every time she wakes up. We're doing everything the Dr. says we can do. If it gets worse, we'll have to get her checked to see if it's a sinus infection. I think she's actually feeling a little better today.
Pregnancy is doing well, although the Dr. says i'm a tad underweight for how far along I am. No matter, that just means more ice cream for me! Just kidding. Next visit in 2 weeks to see just how big this baby is going to be and to double check the gender. Sorry that ultrasound pics never made it up here. They really don't scan well, no matter what scanner we use (we've tried a bunch of them). No matter what we try they end up looking even more like a gray blob that they already do.
We've lost our nanny, for those of you who don't know. Cera decided to move back home, for various reasons. We're grateful that she's helped us out for this long. This means that I now can only work nights, which is a hidden blessing. The further I get along in my pregnancy, the harder it is to work those long 8 hr shifts running around on that concrete floor. Swollen feet, a sore back and very painful sciatic nerve were all creeping up on me by the time Cera had made her decision. Now I'm down to 5 & 1/2 hr shifts where I get to sit for most of the time. No more sore back and sciatic nerve is calming down. See? Hidden blessings. (feet are still swollen, but that's from the 105 temps we've been having lately, not counting the humidity which makes it feel upwards of 110!)
Jesse's been busy as well. They had to move over 30 pallets of furniture on Tuesday at work, and here at home he's been moving all sorts of things around. He's installed the TV on the wall in the living room, put in a hard wood floor in same room and moved various pieces of furniture to different rooms. He's practically re-arranging the house. I think some of my nesting has rubbed off on him!