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Fun Day

Today was a busy day...cleaning...cooking. etc...we are hosting Easter dinner tomorrow.  I am looking forward to it...both of the boys will be home...Matt has been home since Thursday...Jer and Heather will come tomorrow for the day...the rest of the group will be my hubby's family...whom I adore.  We are cooking a very easy casual dinner so the day will be relaxing and fun...fun...fun!

After a busy morning getting my house ready I went this afternoon with my lovely niece Lauren...who is just the sweetest young lady...for a much needed pedicure. Lauren is a grad student who decided to spend her Easter break with us...she also came Thursday and is staying until Monday morning...her parents will come on Easter.  I don't often get to do girly afternoons...but it was fun and our tootsies look fabulous!

Tonight will be a relaxing evening of TV watching, wine drinking, music listening - right now the Foo Fighters - there goes my hero...love this song.

So I may go up and put jammies on...and enjoy the evening with my family.

Busy...busy...busy...and a pomegranate martini

Life is busy...lots of home improvement projects going on...once we finished the new room (sunroom...family room....not sure what to call it) it made the kitchen look shabby.  I like the cupboards but the flooring needed to be replaced...so we extended the cork flooring from the family room into the kitchen...which required the removal of a 300 lb radiator and the tearing out of the old wainscoting and putting in new.  So of course then we needed to repaint...the kitchen and down the hall.  It's all done.  But the change in color meant the red jelly cupboard no longer matched...so it has been repainted and will be finished tonight. We still want to replace the countertops...but that is one project that will NOT be finished before Easter.

So needless to say I am tired...two rounds of painting Saturday with a trip to do some birthday shopping for our DIL, a trip to Troeg's Brewery - a weekly event to fill our growler - RyePA - Scratch #18 - yum!!! Then lunch out with the hubby...had a great greek salad...a trip to Tar-get...and back home for the 2nd round of painting.  Today meant more painting, grocery shopping, cooking and yardwork...I am exhausted.  Plus the hubby replaced all the old outlets and light switches...it all looks great.

Saturday night I settled in with my knitting - diminished rib cardigan - one sleeve to go - and a pomegranate martini - so good!  I mentioned last night on Face-book that I was drinking a pomegranate martini...unfortunately my MOTHER is also on face-book and read it and was teasing me about it today - she's keeping tabs on me through face-book...the perfect reason that I have not "friended" my children...they don't need me keeping tabs on them!

Tonight...a little knitting...some really bad TV and off to bed...exhausted.