Hi!!!

I swear I haven’t given up on this space…things have just been wild.  And continue to be and sometimes I feel like I don’t have one little legit thing to share.  Then I realize I never really have legit stuff to share…I just sit down and peck away on these keys all the randomness which floods my mind most days.

The Olympics:  Well, during the Olympics Josh Kelley and myself go from non-TV watchers to full on addicts.  We turn the TV on and then it just stays.  I woke up the other morning to the Olympics app downloaded on my phone…which I did not download.  All I can imagine is Josh supposedly working while really catching up on all the most recent Olympic news and drama.

Every 4 years I get my best friend Ashley at her best…Olympic-overly-enthusiastic-go-America-Ashley.  And she’s kind of so much fun.  We text and call…yes, I do still talk on the phone, but pretty much only the Ashley and a few of my aunts…and hash out all the Olympic drama together.  We talk about our nervous Olympic habits including my rocking back and forth during swimming because obviously my body movements propel our US swimmers forward more quickly…I gotta do my part.  We also discuss our favorites and the countries we’d boo if we were present.  And which moments almost made us throw up and have to leave the room.  Sometimes you just can’t even watch.

Kitchen Reno:  I really want to take a full on video of our home in it’s current disastrous state.  I’m making smoothies and doing dishes in our bathroom.  It’s amazing 🙂 but our kitchen is looking awesome.  Seeing progress made is soooooooo good.  I love it.  I’ve been doing some updates on Instagram’s stories now.  If you haven’t checked out other people’s stories on IG yet, you must.  I really enjoy everyone’s videos.  It’s like snap chat for instagram without all the confusion because they made it crazy easy to use.  You can check mine out HERE just by clicking on my profile pic.  Videos do expire so once 24 hours is up the videos are gone.

Zero Children:  On Monday Amon and our littlest started school which meant I was absolutely alone for 5 hours straight and it was glorious.  I went home and worked, worked, worked and loved every last minute of it.  Again, I adore my children, but man was it good to think and just be alone.  So so good.

Work, Work, Work:  Yes, I am back to orders and it makes my heart crazy happy.  Yesterday I worked on name pillows and lots of key fobs.  Key fobs are always in full affect with the start of school.  Tomorrow I have another work day and I’m knocking out some art pieces.  If you’d like to place an order you can do so just by emailing me or messaging me HERE.

 

Beth Moore:  Last weekend Beth Moore was in Nashville speaking for two days.  Again Courtney, our friend who is the inviter, heard she was in town and rallied a group.  We decided to just spend the night in Nashville right across the street from where the conference was and did the yummiest late night dinner and drinks!!!!  It was such an amazingly fun time.  It was refreshing and encouraging and we all walked away feeling renewed a bit.  We all needed some friend time.  I also forgot how much I like Beth Moore because of the way she uses scripture.  I never in a million years thought I would like really, deeply and truly love the Bible, but I do.  So listening to her teach and throw out verse after verse after verse was just overwhelming wonderful.

#214 Why I Love Our Friend Jess:  As the conference started she rolled this bad boy out of her bag and asked if anyone needed a pen.  I die!!!

Hudson’s Tri:  While I was at Beth Moore, Hudson was participating in another triathlon.  This kid kills me.  He is just the funniest and has the most interesting personality.  He’s so sensitive and wears his emotions on his sleeve and has such a heavy sense of right and wrong and worries about the world and everything in it and in the same breath goes out and does really physically hard things without a single worry…like he’s just pumped to be there!  He is really fun to parent.  Josh Kelley loaded everyone up in the 5am hour and got Hudson where he needed to be, then they all cheered him on and documented so I could still see him in action.  Gah!!!!  I love him.

Boys Room:  While our kitchen is getting a full on facelift, we’ve also been working on the boys room.  Nothing as drastic as the kitchen, but we had not really touched their room in a very long time…minus the moving of beds.  It’s been given a fresh coat of paint, new bedding (I’ll share more on this later), Josh Kelley added some built in shelves for storage, new curtains, etc.  They have really enjoyed seeing it come together and become more functional for them.  My most recent update was a map wall.  They have one pretty geometric wall with lots of character around a big window.  Since we went white with the new paint I decided this would add some color.  It took me a grand total of about 45 minutes to do the whole wall along with some thumb tacks and painters tape.  Super easy.  Can’t wait to share the whole thing with you guys.

Allergies, A Mouse & Root Canal:  And I decided these three needed to be lumped together.  We are figuring out all of Hudson’s new allergies.  Thank you for all your recommendations.  Earth Balance has reunited myself and baking.  Hudson is thrilled.  We’ve also been tying all different new products like crackers and cookies and snacks, etc.  We’ve a had a few whammos, but so far mostly good.  He started allergy shots yesterday.  He LOATHES shots.  Harper and Solomon hop right up and never even flinch when they get shots, but Hudson acts like a feral cat.  And now I’m laughing.  I had full on prepped him for one shot and when we got there they had three laid out.  Jesus be near.  It was not pretty, but we all survived.  So 3 weekly shots will hopefully make some things much better for his little body.

We have a mouse in our house.  Josh watched him run back-and-forth over and over again between our dishwasher and stove last night while he was watching the Olympics.  The kids all want to humanely capture and release him at the park down our street.  Today I bought the old school mouse traps.  And we shall no longer discuss the mouse’s whereabouts 🙂

And I’m pretty confident I need a root canal.  This has not been confirmed nor denied by my dentist yet, but I’ve pretty much self diagnosed.  And it’s the tooth I just got a crown on.  Jesus be near, again.  I need to call and get another appointment, but you guys, I HAVE DENTAL ANXIETY and I just can’t bring myself to do it just yet.  I’m going to need all the laughing gas I can get.

Happy Tuesday!

4 Comments

  1. I have some pretty decent dental anxiety, as well. I just wanted to put your mind at ease and tell you the worst part of my root canal was *paying for it.* The procedure itself was less intense than getting a filling. I had myself all worked up anticipating it and it was not nearly so bad!

  2. I just went yesterday and got the gas. I wish you could pay for them to just leave the room for 15-30 minutes. It would be worth every penny.

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