Randoms

I am OFFICIALLY done with summer school. This is great news for my readers because you all won't have to hear me whine about it for a few weeks. So, with that, I will shut up about it.

I came home to find this:



My husband is not going to like this picture. Probably because he looks like he is trying to eat his top lip.. But.... look at my little angel. Is that not the most precious thing you've ever seen? He has not slept in the bed since he was a few months old. Jimmy and I have tried to get him to nap with us like this, but he was/is so used to his crib, he wouldn't so much as bat an eye. I don't know how Jimmy managed to pull this off, but I'm glad he did. Oh I could just eat him up.

Today, we are planning to go out and buy Jimmy some more police boots. He informed me that he has worn holes in the bottom of the ones he has, so I guess it's time for new ones.

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Do you ever have days where you are just so sick of looking at the same four walls of your house? I get like that, especially now that I am a SAHM. When these urges would hit me back in my old house in Wilson, I would usually find something to paint or a start on a "project." I bought chalkboard paint at one point and had a lot of fun with it. We ended up with a chalkboard in our kitchen:


and chalkboard covered terracotta pots out on our front porch.

Now that we are forced to rent, I still have the same urges, I just can't paint anything. I guess I could, but not the walls. Now, I have the overwhelming need to organize and accessorize. (You like my ryhme?) For instance, Harper woke up at 6am the other day and it hit me then. So what do I do? I organize the desk drawer:


and the laundry closet:


The laundry closet is a HUGE improvement. I do realize that it's dangerous to have so many items next to and touching the hot water heater, but we absolutely do not have anywhere else to put these things.

Now I'm on my "accessorizing kick." Our curtains, furniture, rugs and most decorative items are neutral, because our walls were a gorgeous gray-blue in our old house. Now that our walls are off-white, everything is so monochromatic and BO-RING. I now want to buy new curtains with some sort of color and possibly a new colorful rug for the living room. We still want to maintain our "beachy" look, but with a little more kick. See Exhibit A:


I know you can't see them because of the lamp, but the curtains are the exact same color as the walls. I love my rug, it's just so... beige. Like everything else. Maybe I could punch it up with some pillows? I don't know.

Maybe I'll find something today!