I often look around and feel very overwhelmed. So much to be done.

The home list seems endless. But do you know anyone who doesn’t have a to-do list for their home, whether it’s things to do inside or outside? I don’t.

I was clearing some pictures off my computer and found these random pics from the past year. I was going to erase them, but I figured you probably need to see what life is normally like amidst diy projects. Enjoy….or cringe??

AKA My love/hate relationship with surprises.

The guys were wondering where to put the old washer and dryer and my husband told them they could take them downstairs to the storage room. (When we had the basement finished, we had them put a washer and dryer hookup in our storage room so someday we could have a laundry upstairs and downstairs.)

How about a sink? Have you ever broken a sink before?
Oh, goodness, I'll tell you the ugly story:

On Thursday I'm trying to put finishing touches in the bathroom~hanging the mirrors, etc. I found these knobs at Hobby Lobby for $2 and thought they would look great to "hang" the mirrors from with some big fat ribbon. (hang the mirrors, and then make it look like they were hanging from these:)

They are big, fat, beautiful and heavy. So, I hung the mirrors, and then I wanted to position the ribbon and the knobs just right, so I took the screws out and put a bunch of hot glue on the back to hold them in place while I hung the ribbon. I wanted my husband to help me put the screws in with some drywall anchors later. Well, of course there were a million other things going on that day: pricing everything for the yard sale, getting it over to my friend's house for the sale, my daughter had a performance at a PTA meeting, and then on top of it, we had our first tornado watch since we've been in Texas. I've never seen such big hail in my life and there were some twisters outside of town that were coming down from wall clouds they were worried would touch down. Yikes!
I completely forgot about my knobs hot glued up there. There was really loud thunder and lightning all night and sometime in the middle of the night I heard a big *crash.* I was exhausted and out of it and thought it was thunder. My husband was in the kitchen burning the midnight oil preparing for classes the next day and heard it and came in and asked if everything was ok, I said yea, it was just thunder. I wake up the next morning groggy-eyed and see a big black mark in the sink:
I go to wipe it off, but my finger goes right through it!! Yes, it was a hole. That beautiful knob fell from way up high, and smashed right through the sink. I'm sure the humidity from the thunderstorm didn't help anything either. The knob didn't have a mark on it, but the sink sure did. Ugghhhh. Adventures of Melissa in re-modeling...

The yard sale was a huge success, but guess where my money will be going?
a new sink.

I don't know if you can see in the picture, but there are cracks all around it, so I think fixing it is out of the question.
Do you think those knobs will be going up?? Oh no, I'm afraid they are banished from the house.

I'll have some "Having a Yard Sale" posts up later this week....I'm not going to break anything else, I'm not going to break anything else...

When you are practicing different arrangements of your beautiful plates on the wall, don't trip over your baby's bouncer and drop them.

I was walking past these cookies this week at the grocery store, remembering I had signed up to send cookies to my oldest daughter's class Valentine party today.

I miss my mom.

I actually have to make my own bed, empty the dishwasher, get the boys ready for the day, and make dinner tonight all on my own??

She is the biggest help when she comes and of course the hardest part is the first few days after she leaves. We miss you, Grandma...

It needs to be x-large and say the following:

Just in case you were wondering. I mean, we have so many similarities and you know I look just like her, but I'm afraid our cooking skills just aren't on the same level.