New Clothes!!

Finally, it's a Friday evening, bringing on a much needed Sabbath rest. 

I really don't understand how the average person can survive without taking a day of rest.  It's not only good for the body, but excellent for the soul :-)

This has been quite the week -- started with a birthday party/sleepover for H -- would have been great, except she and a friend decided to stay up late - finally at 1:30, I went to bed and told them they needed to get some sleep, as I was waking them at 8 in the morning.  The really bad part was that K was out of town and so I was the one responsible for making sure they were awake at 8 -- UGH -- I don't do mornings!!

So then I decided to tax myself further by painting -- it wasn't too bad on Monday -- just one coat of Kilz.....waiting for a paint color decision to be made, but knew I had to cover the red, regardless!

Tuesday was just awesome, the welcome break we needed.  Some friends have a shack on a nearby lake so we went and spent the afternoon PLAYING!!  The girls and I both were able to relax and just have a really good time. Which was good, because the next 3 days have been super busy.  I've put in about 40 hrs in 3 days time - painting!!

I have had many people ask me how I find time to do various things -- mostly craft and sewing related and my answer has always been "I don't clean my house."  Usually the response is a chuckle and a whatever face, like they don't think I'm serious.  I AM!!  And just to show you how crazy it is at my house, I'm going to share the stress relief story that happened here this last week!!

As mentioned, we were going to the lake with some friends so I started looking for my bathing suit.  Now it's not something I wear very often and so therefore it doesn't hang out with all the other laundry that gets folded, just not put away before it gets worn :-)  Oh -- you know the stack I mean, I bet you have one hiding away somewhere!!

So, I started the hunt for my suit.  Now I should mention that the last couple of weeks, I've been searching for other clothes.  Asked the hubby and girls if they had seen (said piece of clothing) - no luck.  I also have not been able to find the camera charger.  Anyway -- back to the suit!  I did happen to find the new bottoms -- well they were new last year, but I got them at end of season and so hadn't worn them -- they were actually in the dresser drawer!!  Off to find the top -- no luck.  I dumped 2 laundry baskets of socks -- yes we actually have that many - -anyone want to come sort socks??  No top.  So down to the garage to rummage through the dirty clothes.  (the washer and dryer are in the garage) 

Adding to this story, is the fact that the entire time I'm searching I'm talking to my mother on the phone -- she's offering suggestions, but mostly laughing!!  By this time, I've looked the entire house over and am getting more than a little frustrated, feeling the time crunch of needing to be ready to go.  Finally, in one last attempt, I look in the family room downstairs.  I call it a family room, but it's really been just a storage area, it floods down there and we haven't used it for much. It does house all of K's music, an unused treadmill, some of the outgrown toys and a couple of futons.  I wasn't expecting it to be down there, especially since the girls decided to clean that room several weeks ago.  They really did a good job and nothing was hiding -- I had already glanced in there a couple of times to see if by chance my bathing suit top was there.  But.....I decided to do a little more digging and wouldn't you know it ---  Tucked away in the corner, hidden by the easel, not only did I find my top, but the ENTIRE LAUNDRY HAMPER of clothes I was missing.  The sad part is that I had been missing them since CAMPMEETING -- the first of June -- almost SIX WEEKS!!    All my favorite clothes, and wonder of wonders, the CAMERA CHARGER as well. 

By this time, my mother has lost it -- she's hysterically laughing, so I head back upstairs with the long lost suit, only to not be able to find the bottoms I just had laid on the bed!!  I'm about ready to hang up the hyena on the line!!  Dumped the socks back into the basket and found the bottoms!! 

Seriously people -- Anyone want to come ORGANIZE my house??