Cleaning pays off prim style

A quick post about my weekend here:
Saturday :
I did 3 loads of laundry, disassembled and reassembled and moved our honkin crib to Micah's room, Isaiah now forced to be in big boy bed. He says he wants to be a baby still.... well THAT explains why we cant get him out of diapers! (ugh!) rearranged and vacuumed his room after that, vacuumed upstairs and down, sandbox put up outside w Jon doing most of that work, however we need a whole TON more sand ! ;) Our dogs showed up after being gone for a week!( I secretly wished they found new owners.).. They destroy everything and scare my youngest. ( I moved all Micah's clothes and re organized them to upstairs dresser freeing my prim hutch up for LOTs of storage space ! I cleaned entire laundry room and rearranged all the CRAP in the underneath compartments so I can slide my laundry baskets onto shelves below ; clearing up my counters totally which I LOVE. ( My husband is a chemical / cleaner hoarder! It is ridiculous how many spray bottles of every product on the market i found! ) I scrubbed my kitchen sink and cleaned some windows with little finger marks all over them. Made crunchy baked fish tacos for supper and Bathe both boys and put them to bed by myself ( trust me that is WORK!) and made from scratch ginger carrot cake w toasted pecan breakfast cookies for the morning car ride to church. ( they took forever bc i had to grate ginger and carrots and toast my pecans) but sooooo healthy and boys dont know it....and what a time saver Sunday mornings!
Sunday:
church, nap, and I " decorated " my clean laundry counters! MAYBE laundry will be more fun!?!?! WELL Atleast maybe a bit more cute! The washboards were GIVEN to me from a lady at church. I did a thing on decorating Christmas "Ideas " after our womens Bible study in Nov and mentioned my love for antiques and she drove home and brought these awesome washboards back for me!! And some other awesome stuff too! I was THRILLED that day. So I cleaned them up and oiled them and here they are! love them! Before I had no room on the counters because I kept all the laundry baskets there... Well I wanted to make room for them to slide out from under the counter ( hence why the re organizing) and I DID IT. Awwww... How nice to keep them there! Thinking I need some burlap curtains now to cover the open shelves.Of course now the Husband will drop in and wonder why his "skivvies" got replace with "cuteness" but He will live.... Besides I do the laundry... I pick the decor! Haha. So am I a total nut case???
( BTW the little tiny child's iron we found while digging on our property!!! It's all rusty and cruddy but I couldn't toss it!!!)

Better late than NEVER

I finished my Valentines cross stitch ( freebie by theprimitivehare@blogger.com) but I " extended" the pattern and added a date just for fun ( my wedding year minus 100 years) . I had to change the shape so it could fit it to my 50 cent heart box from the thrift store! :) I was up in the craft room digging through some of my grandma's sewing supplies that I inherited when she went to be with The Lord and found the scissors !!!! I didn't even know I had them! I don't know how old they are but they were so neat and old / vintage I just was so thrilled to find them. The Rick rack is from her stash as well .... 19 cents then folks!!!! What I couldn't get " over" was the guarantee on the back of the package!!! WHO makes a guarantee like THAT anymore!?!?!? My grandma sure lived back in the "good ol days"... All her craft stuff is proudly labeled made in the USA! How our country has changed.
Next up some spring decorating and maybe a new cross stitch... It's nice to have a sit down evening project or take in the car project with me and I've found stitching is easy to travel with.
Here's a good story to end with: My last grandparent passed away this month and we drove 6 hours one way in the car with our 1 and 3 yr old to the funeral ONE way..... Well on the way home I decided to give the boys suckers in the car bc they were so WHINEY and my youngest , Micah "painted" the car seat and himself with it... He was a gigantic sticky mess and then managed to spill his milk all over himself and his pants were soaked when we got home. SO the moment we got home Both boys went straight in the tub. Soon there after I notice little poops floating in the bath water......... MICAH!!!! So mom evacuates boys immediately from the tub, and scoops out the poops and in the potty they go.... FLUSH.... Eeerrrr.....aaaaagggghhh the toilet is overflowing!!!!! MEANWHILE I turn around and there is Micah standing over a puddle of pee on my carpet! WWWWHHHHHYYYYYY?????? :) Yeah... I had a alcoholic beverage later that night;) Til next time!!! - Elisha

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Happy Valentines Day!

Some Vday decorating attempts and some spoiled little boys will be getting this ungodly amount of items tomorrow morning at the breakfast table..... Between both sets of grandparents I shouldn't have bought them anything! But I got them some fancy marshmallows to go in their Sesame Street snack holders;) Have a happy Heart day! We will be celebrating at home as we don't even want to fight the ridiculous crowds. Hubby says Vday is the dumbest holiday ever... I kinda agree but it gives me an excuse to decorate for something in between Christmas and spring! Haha.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the LOVE OF GOD, which is in CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD.
Romans 8:38,39 ( emphasis added)

Valentines tree, winnings and a "steal"

Well It's been nuts here at our house... We've been hosting friends and family and potty training and now suffering through some flu! I'm so wiped out. Ready for spring and some sun shine! But it keeps just getting COLDER! Haha. Oh well... I have something to do in the evenings after the babies go to bed because Valerie from The Wooden Acorn@blogger had a wonderful giveaway on her blog and I won some patterns from her etsy shop! I was ecstatic ... Still am! Haha! I just finished one and have started in on another as you can see below! THANKYOU so much Valerie! ( patterns all by "With thyNeedle & Thread" design by Brenda Gervais.)
I just wanted to show you a glimpse of the butter churn I found for 28$!!! I couldn't turn it down! I Can't even find regular crocks for that price hardly.... So I grabbed it. The lid has a crack.... But I don't really care... Maybe I can keep my eye out for another one to replace it eventually... But for now its glued and works! My youngest boy however likes to play with it so it may soon see another crack;)
Isaiah helped me decorate a small Christmas tree for Vday .... He was all excited. Now that he is older ( will turn 3 on Feb 8th!) holidays are so much more fun as they get so excited for the little things;) However we are having some NOT so fun times trying to get him to put #2 in the potty!!!! This momma is doing LOTS of laundry these days and using LOTS of bleach. Kudos to moms that do cloth diapers.... I could have never handled that!!!!!
keep warm! - Elisha

Need advice prim friends!

Do i buy this?! Its second hand and 100$ .....I see prim potential but keep second guessing myself! It's a dry sink and pine. Should I go for it or hold out? Was thinking could also make nice potters bench on our porch and could decorate up for seasons.

Christmas Decorating!

It sure would be nice to have a decent camera;) these are taken on my iPhone but better than nothin;)
(Wanted to point out my 4$ butter mold at the end... Yes it was in pieces when I bought it... But I can afford that kind! )
Isaiah is 2 1/2 now and really excited for Christmas and that makes it more fun for everyone! He just loves to sit under the Christmas tree and stare up at it with Lucy our cat. Micah has now undecorated the bottom half of the tree... Oh thank heavens for boys right? ;)