Fun times fly past

Well, vacation time came and went and Scott is back at work. Boo!! But we had a great week off...it was nice to hunker down and stay at home for longer than a weekend. We went to the waterpark, Terwillegar rec center, saw a movie (The Lorax) with Annika, had friends over for supper a couple times,and just took it easy. It was a nice week.

Now it's back to reality. I came down with a sore throat/cold on Sunday and so I'm still fighting that off. Blech. Hopefully I'll be on the mend soon. I'd like to get some energy to do some serious spring cleaning and maybe even have some time for some playing! Over that last few weeks I've spent a bunch of money on stuff I'm excited to play with. Have you ever heard of Close to my Heart? I hadn't until my friend showed me the template books she has for scrapbooking and stamping. They are so neat! I bought as many of the books as I could. I think it should really help me focus and get layouts for scrapbooking done a whole lot quicker (like maybe I'll be able to finish 2 or 3 layouts instead of 1 in an entire day!!) I'm excited about this because I'm going to a whole day scrapbooking event at the end of this month. Yay!! So looking forward to visiting with some lovely ladies and make some progress on Annika's album. I'm very very VERY behind.

Now, back to the less exciting part of what I want to do in the next week or so. Cleaning. Yikes. I am soooooo behind in all the cleaning that needs to be done. Even my regular cleaning is fallling behind. Sigh. Whenever Annika's occupied and I have free time, Ethan's up. Or maybe the stars align and I magically do have time when I can get stuff done...it's still not enough to get the vacuuming, mopping, laundry, dusting, kitchen tidying, and bathroom cleaning done. So I've been thinking about getting some help via a housecleaner. And as of last week I am finally going to be getting help with the housecleaning!!! Yay!! I'm so excited. It will be money well spent. And it helps that it's a friend and I have seen her house - soooo clean!! She'll do a far better job than I do, I'm sure. She starts the week after Easter. :)

I really like Groupons/dealfinder deals.Today I saw one for groupon goods for sheets for $39/set. Wow! Unfortunately the kings and queens were all sold out by the time I got online to check it out. Boo. I did, however, purchase my share of Cold Stone Creamery groupons. Yum. A month back I bought a groupon for window washing and gutter cleaning - that'll be so nice to have done. Some of our windows are super high up there. I'm glad I don't have to do that! The next deal I need is one for spring cleanup - let me know if you see any good ones!! :)

Hope you're all having a great week. I'm off to take a pumpkin loaf out of the oven. We have leftovers for supper tonight, so I had a chance to use up some stuff I needed to in the fridge (coconut milk) and I used it in a nice pumpkin loaf and some muffins.

Penny