MIA?
I have been MIA for a while because life has been very busy. Both kids have been extremely active and reach new levels of parenting.
An update I guess is in order:
Mike and I have been doing out best to minimize our technology addictions. One example is we will be eliminating cable with in the next two weeks. No we are not getting rid of TV all together, but we will no longer have cable. We have found we barely watch it so why pay for it. Instead we have investing in a Blu-Ray player and love it. We have set up our Netflix on-demand account and are just waiting for 2 pcs to arrive in the mail this week to finish our connection of our Blu-ray player to the internet due to our modem being really old. We will recoup our Blu-ray player cost in under 6 months and after that we have cut out monthly expenses again. Yes Netflix cost but it is a lot cheaper than cable and I can avoid a good bit of commercial junk that is on TV. We have also found we could change our cell phone plan to lower minutes and that has saved us more money! YEAH! Lately we have been all about saving money on our everyday things. We have been thriving on it and loving the challenge.
I have started my summer veggie garden. I decided we spent a lot of money on garden plant and we could easily grow some of them ourselves. Not only would this be a financial savings but a great education for the kiddos. We have also been talking about putting in a nice big garden this year with plenty of stuff to can. I can’t wait, I am super excited about this. Mike promised he would help me can the food as well, which is totally awesome! Here are some pictures of our garden’s beginning:
Mike was awesome and built me some shelves in the basement. I am super excited to stock them up and have a supply of food on hand. But after organizing my cabinets and the grocery shopping trip right after the shelves were made I was able to stock them well and we haven’t even began to can! Looks like we need more shelves. By the way I did not pay full price for 98% of what is on the shelves. I would say I didn’t even pay $50 for all the food!
Before organizing and shopping:
After organizing and shopping:
We have also been looking around the house to see what projects to tackle this year. We have found a few and the best part is most of them are going to cost us almost nothing. It is a lot of labor and minimal supplies. I know you are asking how is that possible. Well it is called demolition. All the wallpaper that was in the play room and living room have no officially been removed. We scored 5 gallons of paint for $50. It is all good, but it was made as a mistake at Lowes. It a shade of white (the paint is in the garage, so I am not easily able to get to find the name of it). All we will need is paint for the trim. I am pretty sure it will be a blue or red, just what shade I am not sure. Between our living room and play room there is an arch. Though it is beautiful it makes both rooms small and the play room (currently a dinning room) kind of a useless room. So our goal is to eliminate the arch and make it one big room. Looks like we will need to put up a small amount of drywall (to patch the wall and ceiling where the arch wall was. and maybe a support beam (this will be determined during demolition). Then it is paint time. I am super excited. I am ready to have a nice size family/living room. I have a lot of painting to do this year. Our kitchen and dinning room (currently an office) has a yellowish/off white flat paint for trim and the doors. I hope to change it all. Our trim shows all the dirt. I am very tired of cleaning up dirt off the bathroom door where little and big hands and paws (and puppy noses) touch it.
Well it is 12 pm and I have mom’s group tomorrow at 9:30, so I guess I should attempt to get some sleep. Good night.
Babbling Along the Brook 