Weekly Goals to be finished by October 12th

Okay, so I only have three days, but they should be packed.

1) Finish up homeschool for the week early so we can

2) Go apple picking tomorrow, and

3) Set up the Prayer Room on Saturday, because

4) The baseboards went in today, and the carpet goes in tomorrow

5) Also, I need to get the curtains finished today and

6) Get Mt. Washmore folded and put away

Pictures this next Sunday should include some pretty neat ones, as the room is very close to completion!!!!!!

Short, sweet, and to the point.

Although I do have to end with a praise. If only I read it, so only I remember it... This last week, I had only $125 with which to buy groceries for two weeks, and VERY empty cupboards. Now, I've done this before, but now I was trying to do THM, and I needed a LOT more healthy things than I used to get..... I knew I had promised the Lord an offering, and I didn't know how I was going to fit the amount I had promised the Lord into the money I had, knowing it would take away from my grocery budget.  I went ahead, and set aside the amount I had promised, and... being discouraged, went shopping.  Wouldn't you know, God fit my entire grocery budget in with only a $.03 difference over (which I had, but hadn't calculated in the grocery "budget"), AND He made sure I got plenty of meats AND vegetables too!!!!! Not only that, but as I was putting away my groceries, I went to fill my wheat flour (which I KNOW was empty), and it was already full!! Then, Monday morning, right after I gave the offering, God sent us a $100 gift card in the mail!!!! Once again, I feel foolish for doubting my Saviour!! He is so very good to me!!

Have a wonderful week, y'all.

Becky

Better Late than Never??? I guess??

Sorry. So much for having this ready on Sunday. I really wanted to, though. Good news is, we are so close to done, I can taste it!!!

SO, here are the pictures. I know that's why you keep coming back. :)

The dresser is finally done, and the knobs are attached,

and it looks beautiful next to the blue wall... It POPS!!!!

The mirror is also completed and will look AMAZING when I hang it above the dresser soon....

The boys and I were able to go down to church last Monday and work on the paint job... both the ceiling and the walls! Here's Jim Joe Bob:

And here's Fred and Billy Joe Bob:

They really are a HUGE help to me!!!

For those of you who wonder how I get the statements up on the wall, this little thing is amazing.... Pile up things as high as it is needed, and use it to blow the images you want up onto the wall....

Like this:

Neither magician nor artist am I, but I do have cool toys!!!

On Sunday afternoon, we had to stay up at church, so my wonderful Prince Charming helped me do the door frames and window sill....

Just why, in every fairy tale, does Prince Charming make an appearance? I once told mine that he better not have 15 Disney princesses waiting on him somewhere!!!

The frames all turned out wonderfully, though! (Crazy Hubby!!.... He makes me smile!)

And the window sill looks better too!!

I finally completed "Knock". This makes me very happy!! The N in Knock looks a whole lot better in person, and I bulked it up some.... It doesn't show very well, though.

I also got "Seek" traced up:

But I don't know if you can see it extremely well, so here it is with a first coat that I was able to do on Sunday afternoon:

The chairs are finished with the seats screwed onto them, and all the scuffing finished:

And they're going to look perfect in the spot where they belong!

The good thing about being late in posting is that you get to see the baseboards that went in this morning, thanks to my hubby and the oldest Joe Bob.

You'll never guess where he gets his hamming it up from!!! (Look back up in the post if there are any questions). :)

I think that is all for this last week, so I'll post my goals for what remains of this week... Thanks for reading!!

Becky

Goals for the Week... Until October 5th

Is it really already October!?!?!? WOW!!!! We only have three more weeks until the Prayer Room HAS to be finished, but we are aiming for the end of next week. The carpet will be going in any day after Friday of this week... Loads to do!!!!

1) Finish the sanding of the chairs after taking the sander for exchange.

2) Paint the ceiling and the walls of the prayer room.

3) Finish sewing the curtains which I was able to start while the boys were gone... at least got them laid out and started...

Love how they look in the window!!! And they only costed me $2 for the whole thing because the lace was at the Habitat for Humanity store, and the blue sheer and the brown was given to me!!! Thanks, April!!!

4) Finish the blue and white paint for "Knock and it shall be opened".
5) Trace up "Seek and ye shall find."
6) Get the drawer pulls onto the dresser. Find screws for the three pulls without one.
7)  Look for pallets for tables.
8) Last but not least, finish homeschool all week and keep the house in decent shape. along with getting some more THM read.

See you next week!!!! Hopefully on Sunday this time!!

Becky

God Answers Prayer... He's so Good to Me!!!!!

There have been so many little, seemingly insignificant prayers of mine that I have watched God answer.  Stupid things... parking spaces, rain stopping so I can bring in groceries, little boys going to sleep so I could get in the shower.  This week I got to see my great big God do something silly and unimportant to anyone but me... again.  I'll explain in a minute...

This week was a little hectic, and I realized that my blog address on all my pictures was wrong.... you know you're crazy when you don't even know your own blog. I had to take time to fix all the pictures!!!

So, my goals for this last week were to practice the piano... which I actually did, 5 days of the week!! To use my brain every day.... which I failed miserably at. Finish school every day... which I did (Yay!!).

I also had to finish off the chairs for the Prayer Room. Here is where my blessing kicked in. Okay, we remember the old ugly covered chairs, right??

They were dining room chairs, so I wanted to add some padding to make them look more like parlor chairs, and less like re-purposed dining chairs. The only problem with that was, I didn't have quilt batting, so the padding would stay put and not get lumpy... or the money to buy said batting. I actually only had a few old pillows to use the stuffing from. One of the pillows, my mother-in-law had given me about seven years ago when my middle Joe Bob was moving from a crib to a bed.... it happened to be the one I cut open to grab the stuffing from.  Wouldn't you know it, the pillow was made of quilt batting that was wrapped round and round itself????  God knew SEVEN YEARS AGO that I would need quilt batting this week, and He supplied my need!!!!! And here they are:

Well, one of them. I did both, but only took the picture of this one. God also answered a prayer in that He had the Joe Bobs go on a church camping trip with their Daddy, giving me a very late night to do this:

Until early in the morning. The chairs were completely sanded, and repainted....

But then, my little mouse sander gave up the ghost... after only three months, and I had to wait to go out to church so I could get the receipt out of the bag of trash up there.... Thank the Lord, we didn't throw anything away yet!!!!

Here's how the chairs look now, but they need to be roughed up a little too...

WooHOO!!!! And I even got the dresser drawer pulls double coated!!

I was only able to get one coat of the blue lettering done on Knock this Wednesday:

And I was unable to do the white coat on the K. BUT, We get to go to church tomorrow and paint the ceiling white, get the room cleaned out, and get the walls painted on Wednesday, and the "Seek and ye shall find" statement traced up on the last wall. And sand the mirror.

I did not finish the 100 THM pages, actually, only a measly 30, but I have been looking through and making a ton of new recipes... Although I was very bad at the end of the week when the boys were away.

All in all, I had a fairly useful week!! Now to plan this next one.  Sorry I was late getting this out. Thanks for keeping me accountable again.

Becky

Goals For the week up to September 28th

Okay:

1) Practice the piano

2) Use the Brain every day

3) Finish School every day

4) Figure out, re-sew, paint, staple, and finish the chairs for the prayer room. Mostly, the larger one just has the bottom to be sanded. The smaller one is still as it was...

5) Finish Knock and it shall be opened.

6) Hopefully, repaint the ceiling in the prayer room, get the chandelier hung, and give the blue wall a second coat....Oh, and sand the mirror.

7) Read at least 100 pages of THM.... And make some more meals.

Seven is a good number... Wish me luck, and see the three of you next week.

Becky

Ask and It Shall be Given

So, I found out just how desperately I need my "Brain."

I didn't finish the dresser, because, I forgot the knobs at church on Sunday.... Brought them home Wednesday, but forgot the sander... Brought that home today, but mostly worked on the chairs.

I finished the Ask statement. Here's the way it looks finished!

The Knock statement probably looks the same to you, but it is painted twice in brown, and the "and it shall be opened" is traced up on the wall too... You probably can see it if you look closely:

Looking at the picture, I feel like I need to make the "N" better... it looks wimpy next to the others....

I wanted to bring home the chairs on Sunday to work on them all week. I didn't write it down, so I forgot! GRRRRR!! I did, however, have the things for the seat cushion, so I tore the cushions apart and started by tearing the pillow shams apart.... trying to figure out how to make them work well on the chairs still....

So, I wrote down on Wednesday that I needed to bring the chairs home... and I remembered the paint, and the handles, and the chairs.... and forgot the sander..... So I picked that up today instead. YAY!

Here's what we were able to get done between my wonderful sons on Wednesday afternoon while I painted, and me today with my middle Joe-Bob.

I did not read as much of the THM book as I wanted, but I did make quite a few new recipes, and poked around on the Facebook page and found out more information... And I fit into and closed a shirt that I haven't been able to wear closed since two years ago...

 However, I did not practice the piano the way I wanted to. GRR!!! I really plan to do that better this week.

We did finish every day of homeschool.... AND I printed everything we need for next week AND cleaned up their folders... AND cleaned up the house!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!

Thanks, as always, for being my inspiration and my Kick in the rear!!

Becky

This Week's Plan.... Before September 21st

Is it really already mid September?????? That seems so impossible!!!!! I want to slow time down, and it feels like it is spinning out of control.

For this week, I want to do a few things....

1) Actually completely finish the dresser for at church.

2) Finish getting Ask, and Knock statements on the wall, fully painted, and the final coats done.

3) Work on these old chairs that I found and make them beautifully distressed with a white coat that matches the dresser.....

     And also recover the seat cushions with these beautiful shams I found....

    

 To cover up this uglyness (It is a drab olive green color):

4) I also want to read THM, finishing at LEAST 5 more chapters... and I want to practice the piano every night that Doug is not here!! (My plucking bothers him, I am looking forward to being able to actually play!!)

5) Once again, I want a full week of homeschool.... we're going for a brand new habit!!!

6) Whip my house into shape with the help of my sons (hopefully, this will happen on Monday, and I can focus on all this other stuff the rest of the week!!)

I have so much more spinning in my brain, but this sounds like enough to keep me busy til next week.... Thanks for reading, and have a wonderful week!!!

Becky