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Beds made: check. Coffee poured and getting cold like always: check. Kids dressed and fed: check. See, so I have a few moments to spare. Here are some random thoughts going through my head this morning and a few tidbits of info from my busy weekend.

1. We bought our bedroom set and couches!! PRICEY last 2 days I tell ya. Vinny and I are kind of feeling a bit nauseated at the whole thing, haha, but really, we are more excited then anything! We just kept adding pieces to our bedroom set because we figured hey, we might as well splurge and get it all now - it's something we'll most likely have forever. We got a King bed (drool drool drool drool!!!), our pillow-top matress, pretty decorative headboard, footboard, 4 posters (yes, I am now officially the Princess I always knew I was *wink*), long dresser with tri-fold mirror, armoire, TV lingerie chest. This is all in a dark wood, "chestnut" color to be exact. It's already in stock so we have it being delivered in 2 weeks, once the carpets are down.

My couches are very pretty and very practical for my need. I needed something with the back cushions attached because my last couch was DESTROYED by people (I'm not naming names but you know who you are!!!) leaning all over them and crushing them flat. I also needed something with a pattern so you wouldn't see baby spit-up (we have that in abundance over here) and cookie crumbs from my little cookie monster, aka Emmie Pie. It's a multitude of colors (cream background with olive green leaves and flowers in shades of mauve, powder blue and beige) so it will go nicely with anything we put with it. For the price of the two pieces (sofa & loveseat), we couldn't go wrong. So now we just need to find coffee/end tables and if we think we might need another piece, we'll add a solid colored chair to the set-up.

2. Seriously, why does my coffee ALWAYS get cold before I finish it?! On the plus side, I am enjoying this French Vanilla creamer I bought to spice up my mornings (yes, this spices up my life. Is that sad?)

3. Vinny is marching in the St. Paddy's Day parade with the FDNY tomorrow. Firemen on a normal day like to booze it up. Then on a day like this? I told him if he pulls the crap he pulled on me about 6 weeks ago again, (some of you know what I am talking about and it involved a frantic call to his father and my friend Shannon in California calling hospitals for me!!!!!!!!!) I would be placing a call to his Dad in Hawaii (he's on vacation). Don't mess with me buddy.

4. The window in my truck hasn't worked in months. It doesn't go up or down so when I go to the ATM, fast food or to get gas, I have to always open my door and look like a moron. Want to hear something weird though? When we were driving the hospital to see Andrew after he was born and they made me leave him there an extra day for jaundice, it was really foggy out that morning. I told Vinny to open the window so he could see out, forgetting it didn't work. Well it WORKED - just like that! Then after we brought him home, it stopped working again. I just thought that was weird. Anyway my point here is, I need to have this window fixed.

5. I'm having the carpets laid down in the house a week from yesterday. After that, the furniture can go in and then we just wait for the kitchen. Wow - we are almost done!! I am NOT looking forward to cleaning up this place though and packing everything. I think I am going to throw like 50% of the crap away - it's just too much to pack and all of a sudden when it becomes my problem to store it (as opposed to throwing it in my parent's attic/garage/crawl space/you pick...) I suddenly don't need to hold onto it anymore. Funny how that works. I wonder if my parents will find the humor in this situation. The bins and bins of crap they have been asking me to get rid of for 2 years now I suddenly don't need. Hmm.

6. Emily woke up at 5:30am (this NEVER happens!!) 2 days ago asking for "cookies" and "bananas", clear as day. Was she dreaming of these things or hungry or what? I just ignored the little sugar freak and she fell back asleep. Weird though.

7. I FINALLY watched The Passion of the Christ the other night. I have been so scared to see it and it's taken me this long, but I'm glad I finally sat to watch it. I understand a little more about my religion because I didn't retain much in religious education (1 hour, once a week does NOT stick in a child's head - at least it didn't stick in mine). Vinny watched it with me and we both had bad headaches afterwards. You know the stor before you sit to watch it, but it still kind of "shocks" you, I guess you could say. It's just an emotional flick and not an easy viewing.

8. I need a shower. If my kids could talk, they'd probably tell you that. :)

9. Target really doesn't have nice home furnishing type of stuff. I returned my mauve colored bath accessories the other night because I thought maybe a light blue would go better? Anyhoot - they had a toilet cover but not the contour rug, or the hand towel in this shade, but not the bath mat. They didn't have any sets to put together. Then I looked at their curtains - not impressed. I was hoping they'd have some nicer stuff but I didn't feel like spending ym money there. I think I'll order from Penney's because my Mom always has great luck with them. I did buy two really large wooden frames for over my bed. I think I am going to do sketches of the kids (probably computerized - like I really have time to sit with my easel and sketch all afternoon!) for each frame.

10. At the risk of sounding ungrateful, because I am really not, I want to know why people give my children totally age-unappropraie toys. What's the deal with this? To protect the guilty, I shall not name names. But very recently, my daughter got 2 sets of mardi gras beads and a large plastic container to store them in. The plastic container just took up space that I didn't need - I am trying to pack up and leave - please don't make more work for me!! But even worse then that, Emily put it on her head as a hat, only it was too big and her head was now surrounded by this plastic bubble. NOT funny. (But the picture kind of is so here it is:http://www.image4u.org/disneydream03/A29sized.jpg ) The beads had to be wrapped twice because they were so long and every couple of minutes, they'd bunch up and start to strangle her. Not something I find enjoyable. So anyway, that's a little vent from me. Enjoy the picture - we hope it brightens your day. :)

posted by Gina M @ 11:28 AM