Ten on Tuesday

I love Tuesdays!!!

1. We reformatted our computer last weekend. By "we", I mean Justin. I don't really have the knack for that kind of stuff. ANYway, due to the reformat I have spent most of my 'puter time trying to get things back to the way they were before. NOT my idea of fun. It seems like every time we reformat we forget to save something that would have been nice to keep. This time, it was all my actions in Photoshop. Realizing that was a sad moment...

2. The girls are doing great! Paige is cutting her second eye-tooth plus the two bottom ones, but she is still happy as a clam... or "Happy" the Clam, as it were. ;o) Kids are very adept at picking up on stressful situations, even if they don't know what is going on - but we are trying to keep Lauren "in-the-know" about the house situation and our potential move and she still seems to be doing very well with it. She is very quick to tell us that she does not like the houses we have seen.

3. Speaking of houses, we are exhausted of even looking at them any more. It is so frustrating that there aren't any GOOD options in our price range. They call it a buyer's market, in that you can get good deals - but from what I can tell, that only applies to buyers with a budget of $300,000 or more!

4. So, we plan to get an offer in on our rental this week. They recently lowered the price, so we are going to lowball that and hope that we end up somewhere in the middle. If it doesn't work out, at least it will probably give us an extension on our eventual move-out date.

5. I have not taken any pictures in the last week. ZERO. Not sure what happened there, but I am hoping to get back on the wagon very soon! Maybe I will take the girls out to the park for a shoot tonight while Daddy is at softball.

6. I bought the suppies to refinish my little wooden table. There they sit, in the Lowe's bag. Unopened. I am such a procrastinator!!!

7. I am trying to do a challenge that they started over at Money Saving Mom where you only eat out of your pantry for the week. No grocery shopping! I will probably have to buy milk and eggs, since we don't stock up on those sort of things - but I am really going to try to just use up as much as I can from what we already have. They are focusing more on the pantry, I am focusing more on the fridge - mine has too much stuff in there! It needs to find a meal to be a part of. So, I made an inventory list and am searching Food Network and Cooking Light for recipes to use this stuff up! I will let you all know if I discover anything Yum-O in the process.

8. Lauren is a flower girl in a wedding in two weeks. She is pretty young to be doing this, so we have been trying to explain to her what being a flower girl is and what her "job" will be. She told me today, "I don't want to drop flowers for her to WALK on, Mommy. Then the flowers won't be pretty any more!" I am very nervous for how this day will pan out. LOL!

9. I love my friend, Carrie! She did TonT and called her life "boring" - I don't think it sounds boring at all, she just cracks me up!

10. While getting dressed yesterday I had to try on several shirts to find one that didn't look like a baggy mess. I have lost a little weight - but this was the first time I thought that maybe my shirts were too big to start with! I think I was trying to cover up bulges in weird places, but really I think it just made me look bigger. How did I not notice this before?!? Someone needs to call me out on these things. ;o)

Happy Tuesday, everyone!