a birthday wish for Auntie Mimi

Today is the birthday of my sister, Amy. In honor of her love for Country music, I have done my best to find something fitting (if you know me at all, you realize this was not an easy task). It would have been really cool if I could figure out how to insert the actual song to play on the blog, so, if anyone knows how to do this - please fill me in.



So, without further ado, I present the refrain from the Rascal Flatt's song, "My Wish",

My Wish

by

Rascal Flatts

"My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,
Your dreams stay big, and your worries stay small,
You never need to carry more than you can hold,
And while you're out there getting where you're getting to,
I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,
Yeah, this, is my wish."

TA DA! Happy Birthday!

do something for my child

Go see "The 11th Hour". And, then, take some action.

http://www.11thhourfilm.com/

http://www.11thhouraction.com/

The film opened this weekend in LA and NYC, but it will be opening nationwide very soon.

creating a space for kidlet - part 3: drumroll, please! STORAGE!

STORAGE!!!!

We need storage. For kidlet toys and games and books and diapers and dohickeys and thingamobobs, etc. etc. etc. We also need a linen closet and other shelving for odds and ends that take over our life sometimes. So, VOILA! We tore out part of the one (1) wall between the hall and the kidlet room and created two (2) sided shelving/ cabinets.

Can I just say that these shelves are WORTH EVERY BIT OF DRYWALL DUST IT TOOK TO GET THEM THERE.

Yes, my husband is AWESOME. Yes, he built all of this himself. Yes, I am LUCKY. YES.

PS. On the hallway side, we have sliding wood doors that cover the shelving, but they are not yet installed in this photo (notice the track on the ceiling?)

creating a space for kidlet - part 2: frame, drywall, sand, repeat.

It's been awhile, so just as a reminder, you can see [part 1] of this series, "tear it up" here.

The next step, and BY FAR, my favorite (read: sarcasm) is the framing, drywalling and SANDING. This step (or steps) is neverending and far reaching. When we renovated our house in Atlanta, we had a lot more room to escape the renovation shrapnel, but with the condo we seem to be in it 24/7 - "all for one and one for all".

are we really still counting?

I guess so, nothing better to do.

14

[months]

7 more down, 197 to go

Referrals came in today for families that were logged in through November 21, 2007.

We still have a long way to go, but we fell under the 200 mark.

197 logged days of files to go.

yippee?