the reason my house is in disarray.

cause there is always a reason ya know.

not just because i ignore it and spend too much time on the internet.
not just because i spend many minutes out of every hour of my day trying to pull the sass out of my 5 year old.........who is going to be 6 just two weeks from today. 6!?!!!!! how did i get to be mother of a 6 year old? beats me.

anywho.
back to the reason my house is in disarray.
last saturday my almost 6 year old had a little meltdown in her room while trying to get dressed, clothes being ripped from the dresser and flying everywhere in disgust. she's growing. and nothing fits. what!?!!!! i *just* bought her all new pants. the girl wore them for a whole 2 weeks before busting out of them. i even bought them BIG with the adjustable waist and all. mind you, it isn't the adjustable waist she's in need of. more like an adjustable length. she's a tall one. in the spring/summer it isn't such a big deal having floods cause you can just roll them with that thick california style roll and call them clam-diggers. winter. not so much.

sheesh. i'm having trouble staying on track. so, i took a little trip out to find her some new jeans. normally i go thrifting when they are in this growing, growing, growing stage, but i didn't have the patience for it last weekend. plus i was sure i'd still find some holiday sales. and i did. but while i was out, i also happened across a $1000 furniture grouping, on clearance 90% off. that's right. headboard, footboard, rails, dresser AND oversized, wide, bulky but not towering tall enclosed bookcase. for $100. martha stewart furniture.

thanks to grandma and her annual tradition of giving each of us cash for christmas, we now have a beautiful bedroom suit. man, i feel like an adult now. something about not having a headboard and living with falling apart, mix-matched furniture made me feel not so grown up. our bedroom looked much more like a college dorm room that had seen a few too many parties, than the bedroom of old married folk.

and you know what.
i LOVE it!

we are still working on get everything just how we want it and we're in the midst of sorting clothes for a HUGE delivery to Goodwill, but soon, i'll take pictures and show before and afters.

and i think if i ever do that again. oliver and doug just might strangle me. they got to rip all the old stuff out, and put the new together.


so my saturday will be:
sorting, purging, donating clothes. hopefully baking a batch of Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies. gathering all the kid's artwork into one place, we've got piles and piles and piles. do some digital picture back-up, invoice for some publications, get my haircut which is loooooooong overdue, family movie, and then maybe some scrapping. busy day.

what's your plans?