Beautiful flowers gracing my countertop this week...and everywhere else as I cart them about from room to room...truly, my favorite "things" on earth...flowers.
I'm back! So, what did you all do while I was gone...what did I miss? Please, fill up my email box and share what you all did with your holiday...I have a light day today and would love the company as I put order to the chaos resulting from very little "loving attention to detail" for the past four days around here...the rest of the week is a little nuts, but today, I can play for a bit!
The men den looks GREAT...I will take a photo later in the week when they will apparently have "everything in place." I have to say, that men approach things much differently than women...well, at least this woman. Sometimes a good thing. (Okay, around here, a lot of the time a good thing.) I would have said, "Oh, I like everything just as it is, no need to change a thing, except maybe some fresh paint...maybe white or to really go out on a limb, off-white." That would be me. The guys, however, painted with two colors, bought all new furniture, as in a new couch, love seat, chair, ottoman, etc. to keep the Big Blue Moose (Mark's huge navy leather serious-TV-sports-watching-chair) company, and arranged to have the old furniture whisked away. They framed the Italy posters for the walls, vacuumed, dusted, shampooed the carpet, etc. I did nothing. I was nowhere around. Coming in at this stage of the game to fine tune a bit feels a little like I'm playing the ball off the backboard. Am feeling a little guilty about that, but I am thinking since they were not asking for my help, perhaps all turned out for the best as I would never have stopped gasping at the thought of getting so much new stuff all at the same time on a whim. It would have taken me two years to work up to something like this...they probably knew that and decided to take matters into their own hands. They did a great job...looks very cool and guy-like. Not a flower in sight.
Speaking of flowers...I even got flowers (see photo)...I did absolutely nothing and got flowers....this cannot be a good trend...this could make a girl downright lazy and shiftless. I better come up with some sweet things to do for them this week...I don't deserve these guys...I really don't. Yep, I have to come up with some really nice thank yous this week.
I am branching out on movies. I saw a lot of movies this past weekend...it was a chick weekend, so I saw 4 chick flicks AND I branched out and saw two other movies that I had not known I would like...Oceans Eleven (which I really liked) and Oceans Twelve (which wasn't as good, imho, as the first one). Growth...who knew you could teach an old gal new tricks? My next plan is Oceans Thirteen and then the boys think I should call it a day for a bit as it "may be just too much growth all at once." They know me well, don't they?
Thank you for the Crockpot suggestions. I am thinking using it two weeknights could simplify things during the winter when we aren't grilling as much...the trick is to find ways to cook the protein in it and then just make the sides separately and keep those fresh like we like...and separate...I have a couple of people who will not eat much if things are "touching" or blended together too much...those picky people. (Okay, I will admit, it is mostly me and Alex as Mark and Matt will pretty much eat anything even if it is touching and have even been known to mix it up on purpose. Yikes.)
Back to serious work here...no more holiday playing around...next holiday isn't until the last week of October when the boys have fall break...Blue Bernice will be happy to see that roll around...she's all about the holidays.