watching paint dry...

After Henry's spontaneous bout with a crow bar, I am now looking at repainting the rec room after he completes the replacement of the water line in the ceiling and hanging the new suspended ceiling.

The rec room is now adorned with paint chips randomly taped to the walls. This 'new colour' decision will be made by all of us (Bailey not included for the most obvious reason - dogs can't see in colour can they?). The paint chips move around daily as we create a 'yes' area and a 'goodness NO' area.

So far, the choices sound good enough to eat...biscotti, tiramisu, and french toast.


Apparently, a few of these are the popular favorites of home stagers... who knew? (you CAN find anything on the Internet!)

Update...

Not much going on other than hockey and reading for me.

I am currently reading 'New Moon', the second book in the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer.

I am gearing up for Christmas and will start Christmas cards and baking soon.

One thing I always look forward to is Secret Santa at work. I love giving little gifts to someone a couple of days a week for a few weeks. Covert operations make me sweat as I try to deposit my gifts in the staff mailbox without ANYONE of the 80ish staff seeing me. Let me tell you...it's an art to manage this secret gift giving without having someone let the cat out of the bag!

never gonna happen...

I have tried to get our family together for a family photo (for the Christmas cards) for the past 3 weeks. It pretty much has to be the weekend for good lighting now that the time change has brought a blanket of darkness upon us by supper time.

However, with one child at one end of Ontario for one game, and the other at the other end for another...well, I decided today that we are getting individual photos done and will somehow put them together.

I told everyone when they think that they are having a good 'hair' day (or good day in general) tell me to take their photo.

Here is mine...