I better get in here now

before I run out of time today. I'm slurping on my coffee, wasting time on the computer like I have nothing else I should be doing today.


Earlier this week, in the midst of my flitting around the house, I couldn't focus on any one thing so I grabbed my book and headed out to the back patio. The kids were napping and it was absolutely gorgeous out. I stripped down to my tank top (I still had my pants on, silly!) and read for about 45 minutes. I came back inside and my chest was as red as a lobster. Oops, not good! Today I'm scratching at it like a dog with fleas. I hate sunburn! I usually try to only spend a little bit of time in the sun so I don't burn, but the time got away from me that day.

Yesterday I spent quite a bit of time on the phone with an insurance guy getting quotes for temporary health insurance. He was an easy going kind of guy with a sense of humor similar to mine. It was actually kind of fun, believe it or not. We got to the point where he was going to e-mail me the quotes and I started giving him my email address..."ablemabel..." he stopped and gave this big deep belly laugh. "That's a good one!", he said, gasping for breath. I'm glad I made someone's day!

I keep having to change my avatar on Etsy because it keeps selling. I was browsing thru my pictures yesterday and saw this picture. Who can resist baby feet?!?!

As I'm typing this, she's trying to fall asleep for a short morning nap. She has the "double-barrel-snot-gun" action going on (to borrow a phrase often used by my dad!) and can't breathe thru her nose. It makes it pretty difficult to suck on a pacifier.

Now Miss K has slipped out the back door still in her pj's. Time for me to hang it up here and get my day going!!

Have a great weekend!!

The thought just

occurred to me that it's Thursday. Duh!! The weekend is fast approaching and there is a good chance that there may be a showing on this house this weekend. I've been working on "essential-head-swimming-very boring" details in our life this week. (temporary insurance, search for rentals, etc) Floating from room to room, not getting very much done around the house.

The light finally turned on as far as what day it is today and now I'm thundering thru the house, whirling in a slight panic, trying to get the mini-messes under control.

On a positive note, I got the coasters done that I was working on this week. Here they are, safely roosting under the baby swing, away from bike tires. Just waiting for the final coat of waterproofing to set. Not the greatest picture but beggars can't be choosers! (just kidding!)

Now back to my regularly schedule dinner making!

It was 10:15 pm,

I was humming merrily to myself as I was putting some finishing details on a few set of coasters. I was going to finish them up, update my blog, do some cost of living research (hubby may get a raise here shortly, yay!!) all before hubby got home from his meeting. I figured I had about a half hour or 45 minutes before he got home. Suddenly I see a blue blur thru the front door, the door swings open and there is his smiling mug. Shoot. I mean, great that he got home early but I wasn't done yet! No, seriously, it's all good! I love it when he walks in the door!

I'm ticked! I can't find my pictures from March 2009. I have a bunch of unedited, unlisted pictures in that month. Now I'll have to retake them all!

Knock, knock!

Who's there?

Banana!

Banana who?

Knock, knock!
Who's there?

Banana!

Okay, I'll spare you but you have to check out this super cool sign I got in a package of goodness from JB on Saturday.

Isn't it so neat!! There were two others that are similar in there also.

All the kids were squealing with delight when they saw JB's address on the package. A chorus of disappointed "awwwwwww!!!!!!'s" arose when they realized it was all for able mabel. I continued to squeal as I pawed thru the package.

She sent some yummy aprons along too. After I make a mad dash to WalMart for some dog food this morning, a friend is going to come over and model them for me. Before she comes, I'll have to snuggle up to the iron and get the "travel lines" out of them.

Now I'm off the glaze the coasters...they'll be dried well before any of those obnoxious bike tracks make their appearance! You'd think I'd learn one of these days to keep my works-in-progress out of harms way. (all completed product that passes the QC test is tucked safely away in totes.) But no, I continue to be a bonehead. Yesterday I had all the coasters all lined up on the kitchen counter waiting for their top coat of sealer. I usually seal them at the same time that I'm adhering the paper to the tile. Yesterday I decided to do it in two different steps. My daughter was doing the dishes last night and managed to splatter coffee across three of them. If they had been sealed, I could have just wiped them off. Instead, I had to "re-create" them to hide the coffee splatters. Not a big deal because you'd never know looking at them now. Guess I like to make my life more challenging than it needs to be.

When life gets busy

able mabel takes the back seat, unfortunately!

It was another busy weekend in able mabel land. Well, kind of. On Saturday morning, we all cleaned like mad since there was a showing on the house that we're renting (the owners surprised us by putting the house back on the market without telling us). As I was applying elbow grease to the kitchen sink, I was muttering something like, "they better show up after all this work." To which my hubby replied, as he's hovering over the mop bucket scrubbing the living room floor "hey, it's not all bad to have a clean house." Very true. About 15 minutes before the showing, I'm shooing kids out the door, doing some final straightening, he's hopping out of the shower....and they pull up to look at the house. Ooops! Granted they were early but it's still a little awkward to be there while they were there.

My husband's job has been up in the air (pardon the pun) for a few weeks now. We've been riding a major roller coaster around here, not sure what's going to happen. A company from New Mexico flew up about two weeks ago to look at taking over and they wanted my husband to stay on with them. On Saturday he was offered a job but at a significant pay cut. We were expecting a pay cut, but not that much. We spent many hours this weekend hashing it out, going around and around in circles, looking at it from all angles . In his line of work, there are more employment opportunities down here than in MN right now. He's going to take the job for now and continue to keep his eyes open for other possibilities. In this day and age, one has to be thankful they have a job that will pay the bills. He flew down to New Mexico this morning to be "formally hired" and get his drug testing done.

Our realtor that we've been working with here saw my able mabel address in my signature line on an e-mail I sent to her. She called me and told me about a shop in town that she thought would like our stuff. Exciting! I'll have to go there and check it out.

My kids are breathing down my neck wanting me to be done with the computer so they can watch their DVD I checked out for them at the library on Saturday. It's Baby Einstein My First Signs. We've checked it out one other time and the kids loved it. Our almost-two-year old picked up about 8 signs from the first go around. I was pretty surprised when she came up to me, signing "eat" when she wanted lunch.

Guess I'll clear off my table and get working on some coasters or signs.