Hiya Chickies...
Meant to get on yesterday and try to keep up but it just didn't happen. Grocery shopping and errand running day plus I had to stain a little more. For now we are done with the pergola (patio cover). We still have the side to do but we got the main part up so it is going to wait. This thing kicked our butts for sure.
HI and 
SUSAN...glad to have ya here and looking forward to getting to know you. NYC eh? I always thought it would be a cool place to live...I like how they walk everywhere-but heard it is expensive to live there. Glad you have family there. I have always wanted to jog, just can't right now. I do hope to work my way there one day...jogging that is.
SUSYQ...I like your nn and your siggy and your newest avatar! Think this one is the best. Happy house/apt. hunting! Hope you find the perfect place for you and the girls. I told V what you said...he laughed. Of course I am done staining for now. And
I should actually have walked more miles but took breaks in between...especially this week. Can't ever get anything done when the hubby is home. But yeah, this was supposed to be sort of a vacation for him. It wasn't actually his vacation but rather the company had shut down. HE said he can't wait until Monday so he can go back to work and get some rest, lol!
I have kept him busy with my honeydo list...although the pergola has taken up most of that time. Who would have thought it would take this long to build one? Not me...
SHEL...the Kia Optima's are nice...saw some when I went with DS looking for a car for him. When i first saw a Honda Element I thought those things were the ugliest things I have ever seen! But now they have grown on me and I think they are cute little vehicle's. And as Katy said, Honda's are good cars. I know several people who have honda's and they love them...they are dependable cars. Two of them were toyota owner's for many years before switching over to the honda. Hope you knee is okay.
KATY...you'll have to show us before and after pix of your house. I would love to see the new colors! They sound really nice...of course I am partial to green. If you don't like green you really don't want to come to my house, lol. Glad Leigh managed to get an a.m. slot at her new preschool. I hope she likes the new one better.
JULES...you sound like me! I too wasn't close to my parents and I vowed that my kids would always know that I love them, always. And that I will always be there for them. V knew when we married that my kids will always come first. It may sound mean but that's the way it is and he has accepted that. He knows I love him. We decided to go have lunner instead of dinner. I hate crowds and dinner on a Friday night?? Ugh! Lunner is my word for late lunch/early dinner. When I first said that V looked at me like what the heck are you talking about woman?!
We went at 3:00 today and it was perfect...there were a few people there but it was very nice. Normally when he is home for this long we get on each other's nerves after a a day or two, lol. But I must say this week has been very nice.
BEP...you better watch it missy...I think Jules and SuzyQ are closing in on who you are and where you live, lol. Anyway, I hear ya! With DH home this past week my eating and exercising hasn't been the greatest, the water either. But I am getting back on track...thanks for sharing the pictures of your babies...you son is a handsome little guy but you DD is adorable! I love them when they are that age...not sure what age she is, she looks to be about 1 1/2-2...but so cute. I too do the WATP and love them. I have to say though...during the summer/spring months I mostly walk outdoors, and do some, very little treadmill walking. But come winter time when it's cold and windy...that is when the WATP videos come out. I'll do them every other day just to mix it up.
SHAWNA...I enjoy looking back in pictures also. Some days I will pull out the photo albums (and I have lots) and will spend hours looking at them with the kids-we laugh so much. And yeppers, your grandma was right....time goes by too fast and the kids grow up waaaay too fast! Glad you got all the boxes emptied.
MICHELLE...glad to see you are here missy. We don't want to see you go. I am finished with the staining for now...but there will be more later, not near as much this time though. When i get the film developed I will share the photos of what we did. But I am free for a while and can get back to the computer daily again. I hope you get to feeling better soon. You've had a rough time lately it seems with the migraines and now your stomache.
I don't know about onderland this WI...maybe the next one in two weeks. This hasn't been the greatest week for me eating/exercise and water wise. I did get some water in and the four bottles on some days but not like I should have. But I am getting back on track.
KATHY...hope all is well with you and yours. We miss you lady!
Okay, I hope I didn't miss anyone. You ladies have been posting like crazy. I agree with you Katy about the size of the group/thread...when it is too big I too have a hard time keeping up. And miss a day?
watch out. Takes me forever to get everything read. I try not to miss too many days but sometimes it can't be avoided. Anyway...hope everyone had a GREAT Friday! See ya tomorrow
). I shudder to think about this fall when I'll have to be up and literaly running at 6am if I want to keep up with it. When I was still in my college town (I only graduated 3 weeks ago 
) I would go on jogs at 9 or 10 pm and I loved it. But somehow I don't think late night running would be such a good idea in Harlem 
so I've switched to mornings! 
on the jogging!!! I can't do that - hurts my knees and I jiggle too much. I like walking though. 
I have neve lived in a place with hardwood floors, and I think I would miss my carpet a lot in the winter time!
I can't wait to move, 40 days and counting!
