Happy 15th Birthday Alex....

We celebrated Alex's birthday with her friends on Friday March 21st, with vacation a week away and cheerleading tryouts on her birthday there was limited time. 4 of Alex's friends, Kelsey and myself went for manicures and pedicures and dinner, she had fun.

As usual when I get around to downloading my pictures there are 'extra' surprises that await me. This time Alex has a co-star in her self-portraits.

Kelsey honors Alex

For Academic Honors Night Kelsey had the opportunity to select and speak about a person who has been a big influence on her life, she choose Alex.


Academic Honors is for students who maintain a 3.75 and above, Kelsey has done this all four years. I received a wave from the podium and a note of being an 'awesome' mom. I was happy and excited to see both my daughters on stage together.

DayLight Savings

After blowing off much of the day yesterday with the garden show, I wanted to get the my bathroom finished with the 2nd coat today. Woke up a little later and started as I normally do with the Sunday paper, coffee and Sunday Morning with CBS...huh, it ended a little early, what's up with that? The morning went on until about what I thought was 10am came around and suddenly realized, it was now 11am....damn better get my ass in gear.

Finished the bathroom painting, hand scrubbed the floors, tub and cabinets and got it back together, still have the trim to do but it can wait, my hand was going numb from so much painting. In another part of the house, Kelsey painted 2 walls of her room bright, bright green in contrast to the dark ocean blue, she was tired of the dolphins and wanted this to finally be her room - she if feeling good and managed to go through everything in her room and sort out. Her version of spring cleaning I guess and this was after working today.

Alex I still have hope for, but not to much - after having 2 friends spend the night, her room is absolutely trashed again and she has laundry piling up everywhere, she better get to it cause mom isn't!

Off to get ready for Monday and the week ahead.
Only 19 more days until Spring Break - We are ALL very excited!

Garden Show 2008- Spring here yet?

Jenny and I were off the flower show with the excitement to find new plants, new ideas and just spend an afternoon without kids. The night before snow fell and we received about 4", I was skeptical about the roads, but they turned out to be fine and most of the snow melted by the time we got home.

We were greated by these fountains, impressive but oh so expensive.


We wandered through it all, not impressed that much this year with the garden displays. To me, it looked like they used the same plants, rocks and hardscape in every single one, no diversity which left it a little boring. We did find a few items we would like to pick up this year.

Now we are awaiting the thaw so we can actually get out in the yard. I managed to wrangle a Tulip Tree seedling from the nutgrowers booth along with a couple of pecan tree seedlings, we'll see how they do in the yard. We both picked up a few plants to try in the gardens this year, I bought some new shrub hydrandeas and hibiscus for the corners of the backyard.....now they are sitting in my dining room waiting for it to get warm enough and the ground workable so I can get them planted. Come on Spring.....

Why don't delivery drivers have GPS systems?

I sit here and ponder this question. I have a Magellean GPS directional finder in my car. (shh a present for myself) I use this all the time to pick up Alex from her friends house. Instead of getting a slur of mis-directions for teenagers, she gives me the address, I plug it in and presto - it tells me how to get there, where to turn - amazing.

So I ask again, as I await the delivery driver from Home Depot, why don't they invest in one of these units for their trucks? I have just gotten off the 2nd call from the delivery driver, he made a wrong turn - road not marked...I live only 10 minutes from Home Depot...so why I ask?

He finally made it here, my shower surround, base and doors are now ready to be installed along with the kitchen counter tops & new sink, I am so excited!

I finished painting the downstairs and stair well to complete that task. I tiled the divider wall between the kitchen and family room - check that done!!!

Last will be the trim and painting the upstairs bathrooms - get that done and its on to outside, I can't wait to get outside in the gardens to play!