What a hellacious day.

Two little kids that are sick really sucks. Two little kids that are sick for a whole frickin week is horrible.

Today was the first day in a week that my son didn't have a fever and his cough was sounding like everything was starting to break up in his little body. My daughter was feeling better too and so my husband took her to school this morning. On the days that she goes to school, which is only 3 days a week, it's just me and the boy. It's mommy-Axton bonding time. We do special stuff together and if it's icky out we just cuddle and watch TV together. He's a snuggler, which I never got with my daughter.

I don't know what kind of evil came into my son today but it was bad. Every time I turned around he was into something he knows he's not supposed to touch or trying to smack me or pulling stuff off of hangers at the store. This is not the kid I knew from just yesterday.

Then, I think thank God, it's 1:30 and that means NAP TIME!!! But I put him in his room and he's not sleeping. I hear noises from the monitor that sound like he's throwing things around his room. He's not even two years old yet so I know he's not going through his too-old-for-naps stage. This is not my child. And after about 45 minutes I tell him to come downstairs. I had started painting on a canvas and he is just into everything. Every two minutes trying to grab the lid to the paint, smushing my $20 brushes into the table attempting to ruin them and insisting on walking around the table that my water jar and paint pallette is on. OH MY GOD!

It just got worse when I picked my daughter up from school at 5:00. But I cooked, ate and cleaned up dinner by the time my husband came home and the kids were in bed by 7. Well, at least that's when I left the second floor and told my husband to take over and I was "clocked out" for the day.

Made myself a drink and I am now vegging in front of the boob tube.

It's finally done

Finally done. Whole thing painted and now varnished.

Nightstand job almost done

This is taking forever. I just want to be finished already. I don't like it when jobs take this long and really shouldn't. It's been delayed because I am spraying the outside, base of the night stand and it's been like 40 degrees here. Only place I can spray is outside. I put it off and off and then just finally sucked it up and said....I'm going to have to do it and take my chances that it won't ruin the piece or bubble. So here and there I'm spraying it and so far so good. But I'm not having as much patience with it because it's so damned cold outside so I'm getting drip marks. So then I have to sand it down and respray. It's just a nightmare doing these jobs in the winter when I don't have a spray area. This is one thing I am going to insist upon when we find our house in Florida. I want a real work area. Like a shed or barn or something to work in.

Anyway, I just have to finish the spraying and then paint his name on the top of the night stand. Then polyurethane and I'm done. Ugh.

I think it's looking great, don't get me wrong. It's just taking forever. Any thoughts?

Drawer #2 is done, I think

Football. So this will be drawer #2 (middle drawer). I think it's done but might end up touching up a little on it. Going to only work on the base of the cabinet (flat color) tomorrow while the kids nap because Zumba was canceled tonight and I need to work out tomorrow. Should be doing it now but I decided that I don't do too well trying to work out after my long days unless it's in the class and not at home. At home I tend to end too early and not push myself enough. So tomorrow I'm going to start my new Julianna Hough's dance DVD.
Gotta go and watch Grey's Anatomy now. It's not a rerun tonight....woo hoo!

Drawer number one of the sports nightstand is almost done

Drawer number one is almost done. I think I only have his helmet to finish and then that is done. I'm happy with how it looks, especially the baseball, but not happy with how long it is taking.
So the next drawer will probably be the soccer one. The other two drawers (middle and lower) are larger so it'll be interesting to see how it looks all together when it's done. I'll be starting one of the other drawers tomorrow when the kids nap next.

On another note...I'm finally starting to see some results from zumba and my other exercising. I'm now down 5 pounds. Very excited. I have a little over 5 pounds left but I think I have plenty of time. Wearing summer clothes is about 5 months away. It took me four months to lose the extra 15 pounds that I had on me from being pregnant with my son. So I will try to be patient.

No word yet on my sister-in-law and what her treatment is going to be with her cancer. I think the plan (second hand info) will be radiation to shrink it and then surgery. Saying lots of prayers.