area but it is turning out to be much more difficult than I thought. I did take pictures of the before, ah I remembered this time to take pics.

I have been shredding and throwing away paper all week so far, and it still doesn’t look like I have made a dent in it.

Well makes me feel better just to write about it.

We are working on making our house look better. We have been here a year and have not done much to it at all. I wish I would have thought of taking pictures before 🙁

Here are the after pictures which is tons of times better than it was before. My in-laws came over to give us a hand, so we finished it all in one day.

visit my mother-in-law. Wow I know why she won’t drive to our house very often. I thought it but didn’t say it out loud. I didn’t want to hurt her feelings.

I enjoy her company oh so much, but she smokes and I can smell it in her home. She knows how much I don’t like the smell of smoke and she asks me all the time is it ok in here. I tell her yes to be polite, when in fact I get a lil sick to my tummy.

When I visit her I go outside and sit on the deck much, but it was raining yesterday and the deck was off limits. She had the A/C on and I suggested we open the windows and we did but it got hot and humid shortly thereafter. Thank goodness the windows were open long enough to air out the home a bit more and it was almost tolerable when we had to close the windows and turn the A/C back on. Well I made it thru and had a really nice time after all.

Sign she said it was nice having me over and she hoped I would come back soon. I will return, hopefully on a nice sunny day when we can sit outside for the majority of the visit.

My one year old fell asleep around 8:30 pm. We were happy my husband and I, so happy we watch two movies.

We both went to bed around 11:30 pm, a bit later than we wanted to but it was fine. My baby had other plans though, at 1:30 am he woke up and had no desire to go back to sleep. I tried and tried to get him to sleep with no success. Well I thought maybe he is hungry and that is why he is awake. I got up and fed him at 2 a.m. I went back to bed and still he wasn’t ready to sleep. Needless to say he stayed awake till 3 am or so. The sad thing was I had an appointment with the pediatrician today and thought I would be too tired to go. I peeled myself out of bed at 8 a.m. and went to the appt. I am back and not too tired but I know here soon I will need to sleep a bit. Wow what a sleepless night, I sure pray it doesn’t happen too often. Wishful thinking I know it will probably happen more than I can count on two hands or more.