"IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME"

Moving sucks, but I'm trying to see the big picture! It's MY OWN home. I am excited to get it all over with, but I know UNpacking is misery! *sigh* It just seems that I pack for what seems like forever and there is just STILL so much stuff that I haven't touched. There is so much more room in the new house, cellar and attic space and a bigger living space, my living room is gi-NORM-ous! However it's still a great time to re/freecycle. I am passing on 3 big bags of clothes and a bedding set of my daughters. Since she has a new bedroom set waiting and it's full size, she will no longer need the twin sheets or bedding she has, so I'm passing them along, too. I have an entire bedroom set, size twin, including a dresser and bureau in wonderful condition for a little girls (or boys) room that I plan on selling as well. I will also end up with a microwave, stove, and perhaps a gas dryer up for grabs as well. It's good cuz I can use the money. My new appliances cost $2,000.00. Yikes!

Painting is still going on, although the living room and my bedroom look BEAUTIFUL! I'm so very happy with the color, although I do have an extra can of paint that I did not like in my living room that cost $35.00! Ouch. Perhaps I will use it in the guest room? I dunno. We shall see. It was supposed to be a taupe color and ended up the color of a brown paper bag. Yuk! Kdawg's room is primed and ready to go as well as the living room. It's tedious work cuz there are so many friggin door/window frames to paint in every room and 6 in the hallway alone!! ugh!

Ok, so who's good at colors? I painted my room lavendar, I know it sounds funny but it really looks SO good- nicest room in the house thus far. It looks SO nice with the tan/beige door/window frames. The floors in the bedrooms are hardwood and the living room is going to be rug, and that room is antique white with the same doorframes. Kdawgs room is going to be a light teal color, and now I'm stuck. What color should I paint my spare room? I have that ugly brown paper bag gallon of paint that will do it, LOL! I am putting (albeit temporarily) a futon that is that ugly color with a black frame, and a computer desk thus far. Perhaps a bookshelf, at this point none of them matching! So, someone give me an idea. I thought a soft blue would be nice? Or perhaps a light foresty green color? Then I thought well it connects to the kitchen so I could make it a dining room at some point. Perhaps I could paint it a sunny or pale yellow?

HELP!?

Other than that, life is just rolling along. Kdawg has her FIRST dance tomorrow night. She confessed today that she now has this boyfriend that she's been really good friends with for all of the school year. She has a few friends that are boys and I have no problem with it. Mostly they just hang out in school or do stuff in the neighborhood, but now she's asked if they could exchange rides to and from the dance with this one. Yowzers! So, I told her if his mom called and talked to me I would consider. And that she did.

The dance is put on by the school so I trust she'll be where she says she's going to be. His mom asked if Kdawg wanted to come to their house off the bus and have dinner, and she would drop them off at the dance. We talked for over an hour and I've met her before. She promised they would be supervised and she was talking about a board game with his brother who is 8 and little sister. Right now, at the age she's at, I do trust her. If she was 13 or 14 I'd think she was willing to compromise anything to get away with just a little something she wasnt' supposed to do, as it comes with the age. But she worked very hard with me around the house today and I think she deserves a little slack on the leash. LOL
Someone please explain to me why I have to justify this to myself...

Ahhh, my baby girl is getting older. :(

*cries*