Are you surprised to see me again?!

I haven't been writing much lately because I only have boring things to talk about, normally. Today's story: I have been hiding christmas gifts and birthday gifts (Ryan's b-day is a week before Christmas) in the back of Brad's closet. Our closet is hard to describe. When we built on to our house 2 yrs ago, part of it was a bigger master bedroom for Brad and I. Our previous bedroom we put a wall up in the middle (it was only 12x12 I think) and made half of it my walk in closet and the door to the original closet is in the back of my big closet and that is where Brad keeps his clothes. I hope that makes sense. Anyway, when we are playing hide and seek, we often hide back there. Well, I was hiding from Ryan this morning (I was in their bathroom, in the shower) and he went back in our closet looking for me and I didn't know it. I heard him going down the hall on what I thot was Hannah's rollerblades. I jumped out to scare him and there he was on his new scooter that I got for him for his b-day! He just loves that thing! I couldn't bare to take it from him. He was just so happy. I told him that was supposed to be for his birthday. Then he started asking about his cake! He's been saying he wants a blue cake. So after that I decided I needed to wrap all the gifts in the closet because they know there are good things in there and I imagine he'll be going back in there to look again!=)

Both kids are still sick. Hannah had a fever all morning, but not very high. And she had a headache. She wasn't coughing much until it was time for bed. Ryan hasn't had a fever today but he has a really thick, juicy cough and told me his ear hurt this evening. He also was coughing like crazy in bed. I still hear them both every once in awhile. So....I still don't know if we'll make it to MD for Thanksgiving with the fam. I dont want them getting anyone else sick. But if I don't see you all then, it won't be long until Chirstmas!!

oh the pains of life!!=)

the building and some of the stuff that was inside it.

just the floor left!

getting the floor onto a trailer

backing the floor between our house and Brad's g-ma's house to get it to the back yard

As you can tell by my pics, Brad and I have been very busy this weekend! We had this very big, terrible eye-sore of a "building" in our front yard that we have been talking for months about moving out back. I don't think either one of us really wanted to do it because we knew how big of a job it was going to be!! I am not going to take much credit because Brad did most of the hard labor but I did help a lot and he even said I surprised him today b/c I worked out there with him ALL day! First we had to get everything out of the building and decide what we were keeping and what we wanted to get rid of. For example, we discovered a whole box and a half of wood floor left over from the job we did right after Hannah was born 5 years ago that had been buried and forgotten. So now Brad wants to use it somewhere in the house (kitchen, probably). Also, He has been hanging onto a bunch of pool filters that he took off a pool at his g-ma's old house, probably 5 yrs ago too, "just in case" (like we are going to get a pool someday)! I finally convinced him we don't need those silly things! Just a bunch of stuff like that. Hannah said it looked like we were having a yard sale with all that "junk" out! After we sorted thru everything and put it in Brad's g-ma's building and garage until we get ours put back up, we had to take off the ceiling panels and walls. The really hard part came today when we had to get the very heavy floor on a trailer, get it out back and then put the building back together!! My truck, though, it didn't disappoint!! =) Everything actually went a lot smoother than we thought and we almost got the building all put back together, except the ceiling panels. By that time I was begging Brad to quit!! And we had to go get the kids from mamaw's. She has a new puppy that we all are in love with!! He was just plum tuckered out today! And that's my day! Oh yeah, and the kids have been sick all day.

de ja vu (is that how you spell it?!)

I have been debating about blogging for a few days now but I never feel like I have anything exciting to say! My life as a mom is pretty non-eventful. I think I like it that way. I've never been good with a busy schedule or craziness. Anyway, the old man that lives behind us has tons of cats. If you asked him if they were his, he'd probably say they are just strays but he feeds them so....if you ask me that is taking responsibility for them. So, there are always tons of cats around, getting in the trash, pooping in the flower beds, having kittens and being inbreeds, so on. Occassionally I see a kitten here or there. The other day the kids and I were playing outside when this little kitten comes out of nowhere. Obviously, from the neighbors'. The kids were so excited, Hannah especially. My first words were "leave it alone!" Hannah's face just dropped. Suddenly I was looking at myself years ago, in Cincinnati, being so sad when mom and dad wouldn't let me pet the stray cats that came to our house. This kitten isn't really a stray but still. I felt so bad for ever cat that ever stopped by our house, looking for a bite to eat, a family that cared. I just wanted to give them a full belly before they moved on. I would get so angry, often going behind my parents' backs to feed them or pet them, just once! Now I can understand why they didn't want me to play with the cats but I also don't see the harm in it. I can remember 2 strays in particular. One I just remember jumping up on the screen part of the storm door and hanging there! The other giving birth to 2 kittens under the porch. I would sneak balogna to her or anything I was eating. So I broke down and let the kids play with the kitten. I am not sorry for my decision at all. The past 2 times we have been in the back yard playing it has come over to them. Most of the cats over there you couldn't get near but this one is friendly. I don't mind it coming over as long as it goes back!! So that's my story tonight.