Saturday, February 20, 2010

Off Track



Why is it that when I have a plan to do something specific, that I end up doing something completely different? I have my sticky notes on my desktop right? I always have sticky notes on my desktop - but you can see them right here:



Mahjong anyone? Actually, that is precisely the reason I put my notes up that way. To uncover what I need to do next. And I think - although I'm not sure - but I think maybe I did one of the items that I had listed all the way underneath everything else. Sigh. Figures, right? Oh well! At least I have something to show for it. Introducing....our new coat hooks in the den.



Don't those look great? I love the way that they look right there. I was trying to decide between the way that I ended up hanging them, a symmetrical pattern with high, low, low, high, or in a straight line. Hubby suggested that we do it this way and well, I went with it. I was undecided and he thought it would be good, so that's what we did. And you know what? It IS good. I like it quite a bit! I'm so glad that I did it too!



The kids are thrilled with their new hooks too! Well, two of the three that are home right now are, I should say. And you see the spot where there is a paint missing from the wall above the hooks? Would you believe that was actually caused by thick old paint just flaking off? It's happening here and there throughout our rental house. I think I need to get in touch with management about it. Don't you think? In the meantime until they get a chance to come out and repaint or agree to let us do the repainting, I think I am going to put something over the coat hooks to "assign" them to each of the kids. You know - name recognition and all that. Plus, I have some really cute ideas that I could incorporate as soon as I find this particular shoe box. That has all the Dolch sight words plus the nouns, plus classroom labels plus some blank strips of this special paper in there. And I don't know what I did with it. Can't find it anywhere at the moment. Very frustrating. I spent a lot of time, effort and a little bit of money of it and now I don't have it when I'm just about ready for it! Grrr!

Oh well! It will turn up and until then, I can deal with looking at the horrible ugly patch of wall where I can see the drywall underneath. I can live with that...temporarily.

Oh - and one other thing that I did today...I built this:



We got this for Punky and Boo for Christmas. Punky has already added a butterfly sticker to the storage on the back, but that's okay. Boo doesn't really mind. He puts his colorful touches on any available canvas wall surface that he can.



And yes, I do realize that my dear little Punky is wearing a winter coat and no shoes. That is because although I have told her multiple times today that she is not going to be riding this bike outdoors, she insists on wearing her coat around the house - I think "just in case" I change my mind. I don't know. But this is one battle that I will gladly let my three-year old win. She wants to wear her coat around the house? Fine by me.

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