All this talk about Dr. Marten shoes has me coveting them. I found the cutest slides with flower cut-outs on the side. I want them!!! Now about the $ for them. Mina swears that they have rip-offs at payless but I've not seen them. My b-day is next week but I still need to buy slipcovers. eh

Megan says she wants to go to church with us tomorrow. We'll see. I'm not pressing the issue either way.

I'm exhausted. I carried D in the sling tonight for the first time in ages. He wanted to nurse and Josh was weird about it. He stopped when we went back inside the restraunt after playing a few holes of putt putt and then inside he started biting me through my shirt. lol. Josh was like, lets not do this here. Yes, I bit his head off. (maybe it wasn't that severe, but I had some words with him)

D learned to clap today. :) Hes such a little man. I dont' want to call him a toddler any time soon...I refuse! Its been really hard realizing that he isn't a tiny baby anymore. Its been so fast! Megan is such a sweet little girl. She definitly has daddy wrapped around her finger.

Ugh, I'm so sleepy. I hope the kids sleep well again tonight! Night all!

Reading my round of blogs has brought some thoughts to me that I'll just put down here real quick-like whild M nurses...

From thinking about the car industry in MI after visiting Loopy
My daddy worked for the GM Proving Grounds when I was really young. I grew up in Milford, MI where the proving grounds are and daddy was a high school social studies teacher but in the summer he occasionally took a second job to fill the time. He spent a few years doing real estate before I was born. Anyway, the PG has a really high hill with a steep slope which is the only place you can see the track from the outside. Everywhere else is covered with tall trees and thick brush. This is to keep spys out. They don't want pictures of the vehicles showing up in magazines before they present them to the public officially. Anyway, he was driving aroudn that track one day and he was supposed to be testing at a slow speed and stay at the bottom of the track. He decided to have some fun and gunned it. You have to be going over 100 MPH to hit the top of the track and I think he said he was at 115. He got to the top and the steering wheel popped off. :-0 He eased off the gas and coasted to a stop. He was scared shitless to say the least. I don't think anyone knew what he did.

From thinking about money woes and student loans after visiting Sarah
I just have to rant some more about my brother. He gets all this crap paid for by my parents while he is either not working and not trying to find work, or working and mismanaging his money. I'm not saying my parents do nothing for me, but I worked all through college and took out my own loans to go to school. I have a 2 year Associate of Arts degree BTW. Its just frustrating to think about the fact that I was responsible and have debt and we struggle to pay things but when he has a bill, they just pick it up and pay it for him. GRRRR

In other news
I have 2 coats of the tan color on my living room and a coat of blue on Megan's room. The clouds come next. :) She is so excited about her room. I think she might start sleeping in it when we move. I have a daybed that is in my old room at home that I plan on giving her and hopefully her quilt will be done. She said last night that her daddy would tell her pooh bear stories in that room. She evidently came to that conclusion herself because none of us told her that. Next week I need to put another coat in the laundry room and then start working in our bedroom. I painted it once, but the closets need to be done and the small bathroom has to be painted. I think the whole room could use a second coat anyway. I have 2 big blisters on my right hand that need to heal and my thighs are burning from bending down.

awwww...M is asleep. That rarely happens these days. Thats good tho, we are going out tonight so she should be in a good mood.

Well, my hallway has 2 layers of a beautiful sage green and my laundry room has one coat of lilac. This lilac looks much darker than I anticipated, but I think that when I get the fireflys stensiled on the walls, they it will look complete.

The town I live in is getting ready to have a vote on whether or not alcohol can be sold in the town limits. I can't vote because we don't live within the limits of the town. That said, either do my parents but my mom has joined forces with the other concerned Christians (mostly Southern Baptist) to have this referendum once again voted down. I just sent her this article and I hope she reads it carefully. Jesus consumed wine regularly. The Bible doesn't say that drinking is a sin. It does however warn against drunkeness which is what I suppose she thinks she is protecting the good people of Hudson from. If they can drive 5 miles up the road to Lowes Food in Lenoir and buy wine and beer, why can't they buy it in Hudson and let the revenues stay in Hudson? If they can drive 15 min to Hickory to have a beer with their meal, why can't Hudson have the chance to open a first rate resteraunt where people can get a drink with dinner? Why can't people see what is SO wrong with govt. mandated morality? What if the govt suddenly made it illegal for her to cut her hair because someone in a legalistic church somewhere decided that it was wrong. Why can't people think for themselves? I know it is hard for her because her dad was an alcoholic and commited suicide. But, its wrong for her to go around preaching that alcohol is a sin when there is no Biblical reference for that. Her dad was depressed and killed himself. I feel pretty strongly that anyone who turns to an addiction has other issues in their lives they are covering up. That doesn't freaking mean that everyone who has a drink with dinner is sinning. BTW, I attend a S. Baptist church, but thankfully it is NOT a legalistic one. If I EVER saw the ickyness that I saw in their church come up in ours, I would be gone in a nanosecond.

All that said, she obviously feels it is ok Biblically for her to enable my brother to be a slovenly ass. On Monday I went over there and mom and I took the kids shopping for a few things at Target and the HFS. When we got back to the house, it was 4 and he didn't wake up for 45 min later. I collected the kids soon after and went home. He quit his job (part time pizza delivery for papa john's) because he was going to start a new carreer at pizza hut (big eye roll). That fell through so he's back to sleeping all day and staying out all night. Last time, this part of the cycle lasted for at least 6 months all the while my parents kept him up, paid his bills and he did whatever the hell he wanted to. I swear, I think that my other siblings need to plan an intervention...I'm not sure who needs to be confronted though. My parents or my brother. I suggested that my mom get him up today and have him start priming her wallpaper so she can paint. She laughed and said "I can't make him do anything." Whatthefuckever.

All the priming was done today. So, tomorrow I will begin applying a lovely shade of sage to my hallway, a calming shade of tan to my living room, a bright shade of blue (think Carolina) to the kids room, and a happy shade of lilac to my laundry room. I am a happy girl now. I finally feel like I will live in a house that is all me.

ROFL at Megan

She makes pictures for us and then she will say "Happy Father's Day." (to any of us...me, Josh, mom, dad, whoever) :D

Today has been long. It feels like 8:00 already and not because we got up early. The kids slept until 8am this morning and then we got ready quickly and met my MIL to go look at fabric and colors for the living room. We have the option of recovering the loveseat and chair (not the couch though, its too big) and we went to look at fabric. I found some I really loved but there wasn't enough. (doesn't it always go that way?) It was on sale for 5.99/yd too. So, now we are still at square 1. But, I found a nice accent fabric that had lots of beautiful colors that went the the wall color so I feel even more confident in the shade I picked (its a darkish tan color). The last sanding happened this morning so I get to start priming now. Exciting!!!

We spent 45 min at the library because Megan was watching a book on cd at the computer over and over. D hasn't napped this evening either so we are all pretty miserable from his whining. I made hush puppies with grated squash, mashed sweet potatoes and a salad of cukes, tomatoes and apples doused with ranch dressing for dinner. I'm thinking that later I will make some homemade donuts if I have the energy. Gosh I'm exhausted, mentally and physically.

Any yummy ideas for using all these squash and zucchinis? They are coming out of my freaking ears over here. (anyone want some??)