Thankful Week Day 6

Today I am thankful that I have a handy husband. He was able to do the baseboards for our downstairs bathroom last weekend and this weekend he tackled the faucet and shower fixtures. Yea! We're almost there!!!

Thankful Week Day 5

Today I am thankful for my Mom. She came out today and played with Jack pretty much all day and then Matthew & Allison when they got home from school. I was able to get so much work done! She came to Matthew's baseball game tonight. I really am blessed to have a wonderful Mom.

Thankful Week Day 4

Today I am thankful for summer nights in Utah (they weren't that great in Louisiana, still muggy and hot and I always had to be home by 9:30!). Allison had soccer practice tonight and the weather was perfect!

Thankful Week Day 3

Today I am thankful for prayer.

We gutted our downstairs bathroom last month because it's original to the house and the shower pan had failed. It has been leaking for quite some time and it was time to get it fixed. We are almost finished with it!  I ended up being the one to do the painting. I took off of the doorknobs so I wouldn't get paint on them, I just didn't take off the inside mechanism for them.  I was actually proud of myself that I figured out the doorknob part, but looking back I should I have tried to tackle the inside mechanism thing of the doorknob too...

Today, I went downstairs to clean off the granite counter top that we put in there. The installer got some glue on the surface so it took some time to get it clean. Jack was my big 'helper'.   He closed the door and guess what, we were both stuck in the bathroom! I tried everything that I could do to get us out of there, even taking the hinges off, but I just didn't have any tools or anything with me.  I finally said a prayer for help. I prayed that we could get out before Matthew and Allison got home. They would have no way in the house and no way to contact me. My cell phone was upstairs.  After my prayer I had a thought that I HAD to find something to stick in the middle hole of the mechanism and turn.  My ignorance, but I really had no idea how doorknobs work inside. I had thought of twisting it, but didn't realize that it has to be done from inside the hole.  I tried my finger, no luck. I looked in the cabinet drawer and the only thing in there was a sharpie that the installer must have accidently left. I tried that, no luck. I opened the faucet box hoping to find something.. nothing.   I then noticed a spackling knife. After several attempts, I was somehow able to get the corner on it in far enough that it let me turn it.  Literally the second that it turned, I heard the doorbell and Matthew and Allison were home.  My prayer was answered.

Thankful Week Day 1

So, I'm doing an 8 week challenge/contest with some friends. The main goal is to focus on living healthy for 8 weeks. But it has some other stuff thrown in there too. This week part of the challenge is to write something down that we are thankful for each day. So, I haven't blogged in SO long I thought this would be a great place to jot down what I am thankful for each day this week.

Today I am thankful that we finally picked tile for our upstairs bathroom and that Dave watched the kids tonight so I could go to Paint Nite with a friend. So fun!!

..So I posted this yesterday and changed the title and now it's gone. Trying again!

Day 2

Thankful week Day 2. 

So Matthew's cub scout troop had their rain gutter regatta tonight.  He and I worked on it together.  Since I helped him on it and not Dave, I was quite worried that it might sink... BUT thankfully it did not sink and he even took 3rd place. Woo hoo!  Good job us! :)