My Mishmash: Week 2

The second week of summer has come and gone...already?!?!?

It was actually rather constructive all in all! Over last weekend we redid Lexi's room! Cleaned, removed everything, painted, replaced and rearranged everything and it is now the residence of a official pre-teen!

We went from a Winnie the Pooh room(which Ed and I painted when we first moved in) complete with Pooh's tree in the entryway and then rolling meadows around the walls. Later I added a "clothesline" with painted clothespins nailed to the wall where she could hang all of the artwork brought home from preschool and then elementary....sigh...it was a sweet room, for a sweet little girl.

Not that she isn't a sweet girl...just not so little anymore, in fact she is past my shoulder and zooming towards eclipsing my chin any day now it seems and that means soon enough it will be eye to eye...shudder...but I digress, the room is actually great. She picked the colors, light blue and lilac, and painted two walls each color. However, she did spare Winnie's tree! Yay! It actually fits really well with the colors and "hangs" right over the bookcase and her bed so it really works-yay! and now she just has to decide how to rehang things on the wall and what those should be...I don't anticipate that being done for a while as she is like her mom in that area and our living room walls are still bare and I repainted in what...Sept.?!?!?!

Anyhoo, that took up all weekend for everyone and Monday for me and then we have just been doing stuff...cleaning, sorting relaxing...and of course the required sister bickering as well. That I truly just don't understand...it might drive me to .... I don't know...I'll keep you informed on precisely what it is driving me to along the ride :-)

The only other thing we have been doing is getting prepared for the Komen STL Race for the Cure which is this Sat.. We got the tshirts and distributed them. The girls made special bracelets for all team members and we packed up our special pink ribbons and extras to take with us. I have to say it is the most amazing sight and this year as of right now, there are 69,960 people registered and by the time I finish writing there will probably be over 70,000!!!! That is crazy, insanely, awesome folks, it truly is! And I will post pictures here after it to show you just what I mean if you are unable to be in the area for it! We are also going to be a part of what the organizers are hoping is the largest flash mob ever doing the "The Strawberry Shake for Survivors" that morning so if you catch that on the news look for the blond in pink...I kid...but I will be there!

And so on that note I leave you with some of the best buttons I have found in recent days regarding BC. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did I only wish I'd thought of them myself!