Home Work – still and Family Goings On

Well, our remodel and or leak fixes are wrapping up, thank goodness. Sheila (friend/contractor) has just about finished up her work in the house, and in our opinion done a fabulous job! Now it’s time to wrap up our work: mudding, sanding, texturing and painting. Oh, how we do not like this part of the process, mostly because neither one of us is very good at the mudding and sanding part to make the walls look seamless. Texturing and painting…actually fun and easy but the sludge before this part? It really basically sucks with a capitol “S”!
It will get done but it’s a little slower than the rest and mostly because I can procrastinate with the best and especially when it comes to things I don’t like or want to do. One day soon I will tackle it and the pain…Oh, how it hurts…the pain will be gone. Are you feeling me? I know you are.

Here, Sheila taught Cole how to shoot some nails. He thought that was neat. I, on the other hand, was a little nervous sanding where I was to take the photo. (not really)


Oma and I textured and she wanted to know if it was going to be “OK” looking when it was dry. As anyone who knows her knows she likes the destination, not the journey, the plate of food and not the dinner atmosphere, the point and not the explanation. Gotta love some one like this because they get things done…a mover and shaker so to speak. So here she is hurrying the texture to dry so she can either add more texture or start painting.

We ordered new carpet for the living room so our door had to be moved up. Some of you might think that cutting the bottom of the door off would have done the trick but it would not have solved the problem. So hey…it’s winter, lets cut the dang thing out and move it up. Must say that it was chilly that day, inside and out. It works GREAT now!
Cole enjoyed using his Heelys in the living room before the carpet arrived. He has been banned to the outside again but he actually got lots of good practice in this past month with only sub floor in that room.
We all took part in putting the living room back in order, cleaning and organizing a bit as we went. The kids helped quite a lot and the new carpet is a hit! In fact as I typed this up they have been wrestling on the floor and laughing again. It’s a lovely sound!

Family Goings On

The kids received gift certificates to Build-a-Bear from Gma Marie and Gpa Norman. We finally made the trip so the kids could build their new friend and they really had their own visions for their friends. Cole just went for a standard bear and focused on the outfit where as Jo had to have a princess/fairy from start to finish.
Introducing our new family members.Jo adopted Kalarina (yes, this spelling is correct)
Cole adopted Spiderbear

The older Artemis gets the more he asks for attention from all of us but especially his Mother. A first for him was this…Oma working on her computer and Artemis just climbed on and that was that. Just thought it was funny.
Cole participated in his first wrestling tournament of the year and did very well. He pinned his first opponent, won by points on his second match and during his third match was taken down hard by the other kid and Cole’s wrist was hurt. Cole was turned over and pinned before he knew what really happed other than he was hurting (he is fine by the way). He earned a silver medal and went home happy and looking forward to his next tournament.
We needed to make a trip to the snow, and as winter moves on we were not making it happen. So we loaded up and drove till we found a good spot for some sledding. The spot we found is actually a turn around with a pile of road rock covered in snow. It has been so dry and cold that it was all iced up so the kids chose not to even use the sleds but to just slide on their…well they just slid every which way.

It was a good afternoon; sliding down our private hill, picnic on a blanket and back to sliding.
Cold, but sunny and warm. Good family time.