Why time goes by fast!

Steve will be home 2 weeks from today. I have had so many people say to me "I'm sure it hasn't gone by fast for you, but it doesn't seem like he's been gone that long." My reply is always "It's gone by fast for me too."

This is why it's gone by so fast for me, this has been my life since Friday! (as in 5 days ago)

Need I say the main reason why??
KIDS!

Matt and Ashley stayed with us for the weekend

And he proved that he can make the best cookies without any help, well Ashley and I did help eat the dough!

My friends from CA (the cutest sisters ever, and now live in Austin and Las Vegas) Natalie and Sabrina came over to visit. They were here for a wedding and came over with their really cool hubbies and darling kids (and Sabrina has another one on the way). I LOVE THESE girlies!



I have done my fair share of home decorating since Steve's been gone. Here is what I worked on this weekend, I found this really cool piece but the yellow wasn't my thing, so I worked on it

and this was the final product, even hung courtesy of Ashley, Matt and myself! (from the picture, he won't have a clue where this is in the house though)

Playing referee with the kids! Or as I told Steve the other day "I'm on crowd control duty" Sometimes they fight so much, it drives he crazy. Mason did something to Preston and afterwards he was trying to console him. They CAN BE so sweet with each other! Just wish it were more often.

Preston's first day of scouts. This is going to be a fish cutting board. We're supposed to finish it together (hope it still looks like a fish after I get my hands on it)

Preston and I stayed up together tonight (after the other 2 went to bed) and built his new Indiana Jones lego set that our friends gave him last night. I love spending one on one time with each of the kids, although I don't feel like I do it enough, it's my favorite and I always seem to learn a lot about what's going on with them when I do.

I have been getting back into my metal business the past few weeks. Knowing that Steve will be home soon, I can start taking on more business! I made this one this past weekend.

Clothes that the kids have outgrown have over taken the storage room. So I am doing a consignment sale with a girlfriend this weekend. So now the clothes have overtaken my basement. I had to wash everything, and everything has to be hung a certain way and the tags have to be made out on the computer with a description of the item! The tagging part will start after I hit publish post in a few minutes. Can't wait to get it all OUT of the house ASAP!

Okay, don't laugh. But I got some of my fall decoration out a few days ago. The weather has been in the 60's and 70's and it has totally felt like fall! And I always make sure I am not the first one to decorate, I think I am the 4th one of the street to have my deco out.

Plus, Preston has been begging for pumpkin bread, so I stayed up a few nights ago making pumpkin bread and decorating for Fall! I even sat down and played a few Christmas songs on the piano while I was waiting for the timer to go off. I am my mother's daughter! It was actually a treat for me!


This doesn't include cleaning, cooking, laundry, gym, speech apts, kid's running club practice, piano lessons, homework, visiting teaching and being visit taught, returning phone calls, running errands, )planning Steve's work's Christmas party, planning my trip to Virginia in Oct, setting up apts for Mason's surgery for his ear tubes (next Monday)..... but, despite all the somewhat organized chaos, I am the happiest person ever knowing that my hubby comes home in 14 days. Oh, and I did get a 2 1/2 hour nap with Mason on Monday. (And I did turn down the request to be in charge again of the dinner at the kid's school carnival)

So if you're wondering how time has gone by fast for me, just look at my last 6 days and know that this has really been my life the last 6 months!