Monday

It's a quiet and wintry evening. The girls are playing, nothing is on TV, and my sweetie is in cheese country (a.k.a. Wisconsin). We finished school quickly tonight--yay.

I have to post my great deal from Saturday night. For 52 cents, I purchased a grater, a twin-sized bedskirt, 2 boxes of candy canes, & a pack of Twizzler's Nibs. Here's how: we received a $10 coupon for K-Mart for anything, the bedskirt was on clearance from $20.00 to $3.50, the grater was on sale for $3.99 ( didn't know it when I picked it up) and the candy is self-explanatory. The .52 cents is the total I paid including tax!!! Funny thing is that everything I bought was something I had wanted/needed. The bedskirt on Keirah's bed was ripped. I wanted a flat grater on a stand instead of a box type one. I had been looking for regular old red/white candy canes, and I love Twizzlers. It was fun!

In a bathroom progress report, we are in our final stage. Josh has started the grout, however needs to purchase more. I am guessing it will be done this very week!! It looks awesome. I'm glad to see a completed bathroom that Josh started from scratch. This has been one of his biggest projects to do alone. He plans to tile the kitchen floor in Jan. or Feb. He told me that we are waiting until February to order upper kitchen cabinets since they are coming out with some new stuff that would be good for what we need. It will be nice to have some extra cabinet space since we are limited on that with the current set-up.

In the way of Christmas gifts, I would say I am finished with the exception of Josh. I'm having a hard time thinking of something cool to get for him. We purchased my parent's gifts on Friday. As usual, we went with something they really really need. It's kind of a boring gift, however this is something they really need and really want. They have an old garage door and haven't EVER had an opener. That will be history very soon =). Another item was a new front storm door. Practicality is the way to go with them if you know what I mean.

Well, I have some exciting stuff planned for this winter evening--folding laundry & wrapping a couple of gifts. I'm happy to report that I finished off my lengthy to-do list with the exception of the cleaning the windows part. It's just too cold!