Five for Friday

1. We bought a new bed on Tuesday night and can I just say again for the record, I'm not a fan of change. Our old bed is just that, old. We've had it the 12 years we've been married and it was given to us used even then. I have no idea of it's real age. It's old enough that no matter how you rotate or flip it, both sides are severely dented in. Since I've had Owen, a good 4-5 mornings a week my back has killed and I've started the morning with 3 Ibuprofen. Not good. I was convinced we needed a new bed. The plush king size bed at Costco is currently $150 off, which seemed to be perfect for my new bed need and my tight wad ways. Milo bummed the use of our home teacher and his pickup (I'm sure he loves those phone calls) and they brought it home. We've slept on it 3 nights and so far I'm not a fan. At all. It has a memory foam topper and I feel high centered (for lack of a better description) when I'm sleeping. It's like my heavy parts (every last one of them) sink in and my lighter parts don't quite meet the mattress. Dumb description. Milo wants me to give it 2 weeks. Sigh, I guess I will but I should've know a king size bed that cheap was too good to be true. Who knew I'd be a 'princess and the pea' type girl, ha!

2. A new bed leads me to this. Our old bed in our living room. Super classy I know, but I didn't want to over use our home teacher (especially if we have to take the other one back. I'm leaning toward yes). Plus the dump was closed. Meanwhile, it's been the best activity to get the kids worn out for bedtime. Isaac came over on Wed and they jumped their little hearts out. Aren't they cute?

3a. Reed always wants Owen to take a bath with him. I usually put him off and say the water is too deep. I had my camera at the ready once the water started draining and told Reed to hold on to slippery Owen as tight as he could. Look at that belly! (and right arm at the wrong angle)

3b. I couldn't decide which one I liked best (you?). I just love having these two with me all day. Reed is so fun/funny and Owen is in such a smiley/happy phase. Don't get me wrong, telling Reed no about the ipad/computer/Wii 30 times a day can be frustrating but the good times far outweigh the frustrating. Far, far outweigh them.

4. I really want to start decorating/painting this house. Every wall is white. It's overwhelming. I go back and forth on what to do. 1- hang things now for a homey feel, take it all down when we paint and put it back up. 2-don't hang anything until we paint leaving me with the 'hospital' feel but putting more pressure on to get the painting done. Ugh. I've decided to start in the smallest room I spend quite a bit of time in. It's my laundry/hair room. I'm going to use this shower curtain re-purposed into curtains that hide most of my laundry area. That way when I'm cutting hair, I pretend it's not there at all, ha. Light grey walls, black and yellow accents. I think I'll like it once it's done. Baby steps here, one room at a time. (3, 4, 5 year finish goal? maybe 10? ha!)

5. We have a babysitter lined up for tomorrow night. I can't wait to take off my mom 'hat' for a bit and get some time with Milo (and Owen). Even better, we have movie and restaurant gift certificates. My kind of date!