- A. started preschool a few weeks ago. She loves it! This is such a relief because J was not as enthusiastic about school. More than once I had to drag him in kicking and screaming. But A. is having a great time.
- With A being in preschool and J in school, that leaves me a few hours a few times a week to myself. The first day, I went to breakfast with a friend. Then I got my hair trimmed and highlighted the next week. Today, I went swimming and took a bath. I find that it's all a little strange to have so much time on my hands where I'm not constantly wondering about another little being.
- I've been trying to tie up old projects before the weather turns. Last year, I started refinishing a dresser for A. I never got it done and then I was so busy with the training for the Half and the weather was so hot, and now I am finally getting back to it. It's SO close to being done.
- Before I started on the dresser, I refinished a desk that was part of the same bedroom set as the dresser and the bed I did for A. last year. Originally, it was going to be hers, but then I got to thinking that it would be pretty cool in my room as a vanity. Our master bathroom is really tiny and Wade is always getting after me about my hair stuff and make up, so I finished this "vanity" and I have to say I'm pretty impressed with the end result. It's probably the best project I've done thus far. Once I unearth the before pictures, I'll post a picture. Grandma (who originally bought the bedroom set for my aunt 65 years ago) would be duly impressed as well.
- In addition to the dresser, I'm also refinishing a cedar chest. This one is near and dear to my heart because it belonged to my grandma, who's been gone nearly 10 years. When I was sanding it the other day, I swear I could smell her. Funny how some things bring back memories.
- I'm also making curtains for my bedroom. Haven't sewed a thing in my life, so by all means, start with curtains. Google, youtube, and pinterest are awesome, though I'm sad to admit that pinterest is really hard for me to follow. I'm a dork.
- There's two bookcases out in the garage I need to do something with. I have a few ideas.
- I won the evaluator contest at Toastmasters a few weeks back. A target speech is given and then you have five minutes to come up with a 2-3 minute speech evaluating that speech. It can sometimes be reallly difficult, depending on the target speech. Luckily, the target speech was good and I had an easy time evaluating it. Ideally, you have to point out things to work on in addition to what they did well. I went on to the next level and was the only one to show up, so I won again. Now on to the next level at the end of the month.
- I'm back to exercising after taking a much needed break after the Half. It's been harder than I anticipated to make myself go out without some kind of goal in mind.
- I'm decorating my house for Halloween and maybe even Thanksgiving. I'm going to become one of those people. Maybe not to the extent of some, but I want a cool house too. I'll post pictures when that gets done this week.
- A. also started ballet classes this month. She's a doll and really enjoys them. I never thought I'd be a dance mom and I have a lot to learn. She's picking up on the moves a lot quicker than I thought she would.
- Taught myself how to do the flip turn while swimming laps. This has been on my wishlist for a long, long time and had I known it would only take 15 minutes, I would have crossed it off years ago. I'll post about it tomorrow because it's kinda interesting and funny how I came about learning this trick.
I guess that's about it. Seems like the same old stuff. Loving the weather right now. Wish it was it was like this all the time. I hope it will stay nice for a few weeks so I can get the yard fixed up before winter too. This time, I promise I won't be two weeks again.
