Things we did yesterday

1-baked four boxes of cake

2-folded two baskets of laundry

3-changed at least 20 diapers

4-bought groceries

5-went to the post office

6-bought four plane tickets to Europe

7-ordered new checks at the bank

8-bought two birthday balloons and a tablecloth at the dollar store

9-cleaned the kitchen (three times)

10-canceled cable

11-and Mr. Sloth kegged beer


Busy day. And expensive, I think the trip to the Dollar Tree is what really set us over the edge.

Nature's Cable

I called to cancel cable two days ago. We still have it until we drop off the box which is Mr. Sloths job, I had the joy of calling to cancel. I was so busy just prior to calling that it wasn't until I was dialing the phone that I realized what run-around I was about to encounter. First off I had to press 1 for upgrades, 2 for downgrades. (Jeepers,creepers they have a whole department for this??) Sure enough the guy answers the phone, I tell him I would like to cancel my cable. With words covered in butter he asks, "Now why would you want to do a thing like that?" I wasn't about to play his game so I didn't say a word. The awkward silence worked because he moved on. At one point he asked if I was going to "the darkside" (meaning satellite), I said no we're getting rid of it altogether. He was shocked.

Anyway, as soon as Mr. Sloth drops off the box we'll be completely without TV as we don't get a signal here without it. We only plan on giving it up for the summer so we'll survive and while it's true that a lot off shows are online now, my favorites are not. (Oh, Duggars, how I will miss thee!!)

However, pre-empitve of being cable free last night we had some good old fashion fun. The four of us (Mr. Sloth, Sidekick, Obscure and I) lined our lawn chairs up on the sidewalk and watched the most amazing lighting storm as it swept towards us. Honestly it was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. Constant lighting, somtimes even blinding and it was so far away we never heard thunder. It was great, except for, well....we knew the sprinklers would go off at sometime, but we usually hear a clicking sound (think Princess Bride) before they go off. Well we heard a clicking sound at the East end of the yard, but before we could move, a sprinkler right in front of us went off that was pointed directly at Mr. Sloth's.... lap. (Ahh, that was funny)

Nature's Cable. Fantastic.

Rearranging Things

In an attempt to pretend like we have more space we've been rearranging furniture (and we aren't done yet). As mentioned before, Happy is ginormous. He's growing out of his mini-pack'n'play much faster than anticipated. Our had always assumed he could be in that bed until around seven months just like Demand had done. We assumed we'd have a new house by then. So our deliema was that Happy is too young to share a room with Demand and our room is too crowded to have the crib in there (like we did with Demand).

After praying for a week that Happy finds a room God finally provided me with an answer. He's always more creative than me so I find his answers fascinating. What is the answer, you ask? Well Mr. Sloth is finally furnishing his office after a year of living out of paper bags. So I realized if he takes the buffet from the dining room we can move my armoire desk down from the bedroom giving us room for a crib in our room. How did I not think of this before? I've always wanted my desk downstairs anyway and he was thinking about taking the buffet for months. Plus, he was going to to get one of the same bookshelves that we have in the playroom. I realized that if he got the bigger version of the shelf that could go in our playroom and he could take smaller version of the shelves from the playroom. He doesn't need that much storage at the office anyway. This would actually give us even more storage in the playroom.


So while I only asked God for Happy to have a room His answer gave us 1. a safe place for Happy to sleep 2. me an actual functioning office. 3. Mr. Sloth more storage and 4. more storage for the playroom (which we desperately needed)

Pretty cool, huh? Sometimes God gives us what we want and need.

So I guess we can squeeze a few more months out of this place afterall. We're trying really hard to be patient about buying a new house and just waiting for God's cue. Looks like fall might be a better time to buy anyway so we'll just make the summer work and concentrate on saving for a possible move in the fall. Speaking of which I believe we'll be canceling cable at the end of the month. It's going to hurt, but it IS summertime and we'll save a lot of money over the next few months. Besides, I need a break from TLC. I need to stop watching people live their lives and maybe live one myself. Maybe mine will be more exciting...

Big Day

I'm 99% sure Happy rolled over (on a flat, hard surface) for the first time today. I put him on a blanket while I brushed my teeth (big day for me too). He was on his belly, then he was on his side playing with Demand. Next time I looked at him he was on his back. I asked Demand if he rolled over and she said yes, a part of me wonders if she "helped" him along but I'm going with --HE ROLLED OVER!!!