This weekend was one big blur, but surprisingly I managed to accomplish quite a few things.  Including losing most of my voice the last three minutes of the superbowl because I was screaming like an extra in a horror flick.

My beloved Steelers tried to loose the game.  They did everything in their power to give the Arizona Cardinals the coveted title and trophey.  Thankfully in the last 35 seconds they took it back.  OH YEAH!  Superbowl Champs.  That's right...Here we go...Steelers.  Here we go!!!!


'Nuf of that...on to what I accomplished:

As stated on Friday, my daughters are pigs and I'm not sure where they get this from.  My husband and I do not leave random used tissues throughout our room, we do not eat part of a poptart and leave the rest on our dresser...I really wanted to lock them in their room this weekend and make scrub the room from head to toe!

I helped them, but they did do a good bit of it themselves. We went through the toybox, we went through the books in the closet and we picked up the crap stuff on the floor.



I made a couple valentines, one Easter card and finished my daughter's inviations.

These are my daughter's invitations.  I will post the valentines and the Easter card later this week.  The inside is cute.  It annouces her magical sleepover and it it signed by Professor McGonagal from the movie.  She really like it and she helped make it.

I didn't make anything for my son's teachers, but I did stain my craft room shelves.

On Saturday evening we took the kids to a hockey game and they had a lot of fun and then yesterday we had a superbowl party with a bunch of our friends.  My husband made almost 50 wings in his new deep fryer, but the oil just wouldn't get hot and they didn't get done until after 11 p.m.  Any guess what we had for supper tonight?

The kids (and the parents) are still tired and no one wanted to get up today for school or for work.

Thanks for stopping by.  Let me know what you accomplished.

It is Thursday and time for my "What I learned this week posting."  Feel free to play along and let me know what you learned.

• I learned that having a long weekend with the kids can actually be fun.  Sure there were times when I thought, "When do you go back to school?"  but there were also times when they played dress up, and hide and seek, and made caves out of the couch cushions.
• I learned that going to Stuff-mart is never a good idea.
• I learned that I can defeat the clutter monster in my house. One. Room. at. a. time.
• I learned that Facebook is more hassle than it is worth.  Please note:  If we weren't friends in high school I have no desire to be your friend now.  Why do you think I didn't include my maiden name?  It's because I'm hiding from you.
• I learned bloggy buddies can really cheer you up.

What did you learn this week?

I feel quite exhausted.  I think the clutter is winning.  I'm almost out of wine.  However, my carpet is clean in my craft room.  Most of the clutter is gone or contained.  I found some things I need to put on Ebay.  I have some drawers I need to clean out that will probably contain more things I need to put on Ebay.

Warning:  Do not be alarmed by these before pictures.  They can invoke a strong desire to contact those crazieeee beotches on Clean House.  Trust me.  I can't tolerate them.  Or Oprah.  Or Scrapbookers Annoymous...

As predicted we had a snow day today.  We got about 3-4 inches of snow and a nice layer of ice on top which creates that "Look Ma, I'm walking on the snow and not falling in illusion."

Seeing as all three of my children were home with me all day, and we spent about 2 1/2 hours sledding.  I'm still pretty impressed with all that I got accomplished.

My son's room is clean, organized and has freshly scrubbed carpets.  I went through his toybox, cleaned off his bookshelf and got rid of the "baby" books and I cleaned out is dresser.  Don't tell anyone but he still had A LOT of 3 toddler pants in his drawers and he turned 5 in October. 

It's about time I get rid of the floods he's been wearin' to school.  LOL

As I've explained to my three numerous regular readers, I'm not much of a housekeeper.  In fact, I had to pause to figure out if that was one word or two words. Quite frankly it should be a four-letter word.

This week I decided that I'm tired of being overrun by CLUTTER!  I'm tired of always having to look for things because they have migrated, moved or relocated.  I'm tired of tripping over toys that no one plays with.  My kids perfer cardboard boxes and couch cushions.  Seriously.

So this week I'm doing something about it.  Today I started in my bedroom.  Poor hubby's guitar books and music stuff had no home and the dog was taking a serious likin' to them.  I managed to move some of my stuff off of our shared bookshelf and put all of his on there.

Just getting all that off the floor made the room look bigger and cleaner.  Then I reoganized my smaller bookshelf and cleaned off my dresser.

I even scrubbed the carpets with my rockin' Bissell steam cleaner.  Can you believe that?  The room looks so nice right now I just don't want to see it get messed up again.  It took me most of the day, but I did have to pause to make lunch, play three games of trouble and one of Disney Princess Wishes.  On a side note, if you ever have the opportunity to NOT buy that game, make sure you walk away.  It has WAY to many pieces for a 4+ game.  And yes, my son loves it even more than his sisters.

Speaking of youngest here he is with the dog on the bed when I had all of the shit stuff piled on top of it.  Can you find them?

Obviously, I'm not the only one who has trouble keeping their resolutions. There are probably books about why resolutions are really bad ideas. They are, however, fun to make even if the odds are stacked against you.



Exercise. Geez, I hate that word. I joined a gym a few months ago. My friends convinced me that it would be something fun we could all do together. Yeah, right. So far that hasn't happened all that much. So I'm going to resolve not to waste my money in 2009 and actually try to go to the gym 2-3 times a week. Don't laugh, I probably won't even make it that many times. As part of this, I'm actually going to try to eat a little better (she types while laughing).



Yell less. This is a tough one for me. I tend to nag and yell and I don't really like myself when I do this. I'm constantly telling my kids to brush their hair or their teeth or to clean up their room. I'm starting to get on my own nerves. I'm pretty sure they no longer hear me so enough already. Say it once.



Clutter. Repeat after me. We have too much STUFF. I feel like Stuff-Mart has exploded in my house and the stuff it left behind has actually come to life and started procreating. Where are all the missing socks? How much shit can I pile on top of my kitchen island before it is no longer considered an island. How many junk drawers should one family have? Why do we have toy boxes when toys never visit them? Is it possible to actually keep all the pieces to our board games? I need to get rid of some stuff!



Scrapbooking. Call it what you want...a hobby, a way to spend leisure time, an opportunity to get together with friends. Scrapbooking at it's core is an addition. I always need more stuff. See above. My goal is to make some actually pages this year using the stuff I already have.



Housekeeping. Imagine if you will random housekeeping checkups, sort of like sobriety check points. This would actually make a great reality TV show...but I digress. How many of us would pass right now if some English woman wearing white gloves came to the door and said, "Pardon me, but may I use the loo?" (Awesome name for said reality show if I do say so myself). Are your bathrooms spotless? Is all your laundry put away (is that possible)? I need to do a better job around this place.



That's my list. I'm sure to fail. If you comment at all during January be sure to ask me how clean my loo is! Happy New Year.