Nursery

The nursery for baby _______ Rhodes is almost done! Good thing too, because she could come just about anytime now. Ashley is ready, but I'm sure she can wait a little longer and have a healthier baby. :) We had some help getting some things hung on the walls yesterday and finished hanging the home-made (by Ashley's mom Donna) chandelier. Anyways, here are the pictures of the nursery...

Also, we have a bassinet that Ashley is absolutely in love with. We found one online that she just had to have, so we traded the one that we received as a gift for this one...

Coming Along

The nursery is coming along nicely! To quote Ashley, "I did not think we would have this much done this early." That is something that usually doesn't happen with me. I like to put things off.

Anyways, here are a couple pictures of the nursery...

We are very happy with the color of the paint in the room. Next is curtains and filling up the room with stuff we get from the shower! :)

Final - Choosing Joy Among the Christmas Craziness

Well, I failed. :( That is harder than I thought it would be to update regularly, especially every day. But I feel like I did succeed in keeping the holiday season pretty stress free. Not perfect of course, but I think I did okay.

Choosing Joy Among the Christmas Craziness: Day 20-22

Getting behind again..gotta play catch-up...

Tuesday the 20th - Seems to be a theme this time of year for me...hard to not choose joy on a day like this. :) Spent a lot of the day with four of my nieces and nephews. Love spending time with them! Then ate some great food at the Christmas party for Gordonville Grocery. Oh that was so good! :)

Wednesday the 21st - I did a lot of little things around the house today, which actually I like being able to do. I love having my own house and property to maintain. Even though it is a lot of work, I can take pride in knowing that it is mine. We try to keep things clean and nice looking, and I think we're doing good, even though it's not always fun.

Thursday the 22nd - Ugh, this day was not so fun. First I went into town pretty early in the day. That wasn't so fun, but I kept a good attitude and it wasn't too bad. Made sure to go in the morning so it wouldn't be too busy. Then in the afternoon Ashley had a dentist appointment and we were watching Donna June. So I had to watch her in the lobby for a little over an hour. I was not looking forward to it really, because she can be a little difficult to contain for that long. But she did great! Time flew and I kept her entertained. Whew! Then at night, Mom and I got a little dusty. Okay, really dusty. Sanding texture off the walls of a bathroom so that we can paint it. The texture we applied was just too hard to make it look good, so we decided against it. Oh well. Anyways, I had the sander going, and Mom had the shop-vac going all the time to catch a lot of the dust. Still a lot that didn't make it into the vacuum, but I can't imagine what it would be like if the vacuum wasn't going. We came out of that bathroom covered in that crap. Had to take multiple breaks because it was so hot and hard to breath with the mask things on. But...it got done! :) Need to wash the walls and clean up other things in there. Then we can paint!!!

Choosing Joy Among the Christmas Craziness: Day 19

Hard to not choose joy on this day, just like the previous Friday. This day was a Monday and the first day that I would have normally worked, but didn't have to. I chose to celebrate by having friends over and doing absolutely no work. We played some video games, shot old cell phones with guns, and played a long game of Risk that ended with a victory by me! :) It was a good day.

Choosing Joy Among the Christmas Craziness: Day 18

I don't even remember what happened this day! Oh, I remember one thing. :) The season premier of my favorite show ended on a cliff hanger! Hate it when that happens. And it is rare for this show to end on a cliff hanger, and this one was a big one. And now I have to wait until probably August for the new season. But I chose joy because now I can cancel Showtime and our Dish bill will be cheaper. :)

Choosing Joy Among the Christmas Craziness: Day 17

This day was the day of the last official wedding reception for First Choice Entertainment! And we still didn't want to do it. :) We even had an opportunity to back out of it, but we chose to stick with it. Then we even regretted sticking with it! I'm thinking it's a good thing we were getting out of it.

When the day came, I took a positive attitude towards it, pumping myself up for it. That helped a lot. It made the night go by fast, and everything went very smoothly. And the bride and groom were happy, but most importantly, the bride's parents were happy! (They were the paying customers.) :)