My life lately

Can you say stress? Yeah, that has defined my life for the last month. Since we decided to put the house on the market, my life has been packed with constant cleaning. I basically would follow the girls around and pick up anything they drop in case someone wanted to come see the house. Well that lasted about 2 weeks and now if someone see my house, it will be picked up, but I just pray that they don't look in the toilet. :) We had about 7-8 showings in the first 2 weeks, and haven't had any since. (we do have one tomorrow, so cross your fingers for us) We also did have an offer awhile ago, but they basically wanted us to give them our house, so we turned them down.

Anyhow, besides that, I also have stayed busy at church. A few Sunday's ago we had our Primary program. In case you didn't know, I am now part of the primary presidency and we have about 140+ kids we had to make parts for and figure out where they were going to sit, etc. etc. etc. NOT an easy task, I must say. But after everything is all said and done, it turned out so good. I was so proud of our kids and how well they did. (I totally cried like 3 times)

Last weekend we had our ward trunk or treat that we helped to organize. I couldn't help too much on the actual day, due to being a soccer widow still, but it turned our great.

I also am planning a baby shower for my sis-in-law who is due in Jan. So invites had to be made, of course, and mailed last week.

Tomorrow is our Super Saturday which my friend Betsy and I were ask to be in charge of a craft. That means making it, collecting the supplies, prepping the supplies and then teaching it the day of.

Of course through all of this, Johnny has been stressed at work due to this huge project, then he goes straight to soccer and usually doesn't get home until 7:45 at night. Which means I am stressed because he is stressed, and of course lonely because I am basically a single mother for 4 months.

Now you can see just a little bit why I have been stressed. This week, I have relaxed a little bit. I spent all day on the computer the other day searching for Christmas presents. (I made a pretty big wish list on Amazon.com if anybody needs any ideas for my family :) ) All that time paid off because I got Lexi a sweet gift for a sweet price! And did I mention that I also got a cold, which usually tends to happens when I am super stressed out. :(

On a happy note...I was able to do some fun crafts before all of this craziness happened. Here is some things that I made for our house.

This one I put in Lexi's room to match her bed spread.

This one is was for my bathroom, just to have a little something on the counter.

And this spot over my tub has been empty since we moved in. I just never could find something I liked or could afford to put there. Since selling our house, I just HAD to put something there. I made this wreath for my front door, but since it is kinda a springy item I thought the bathroom would be an okay place for now.

Now can you guess how much each cost me to make? (ok I know you probably don't care but humor me just this once will ya?)

Butterfly wreath, $1.15, Hydrangea balls with vase $3.05 and the blue wreath was about $7.00 plus alot of headaches and burns on my fingers.

Wow..I know how did I make them so cheap? Well the first two are made from brown lunch bags, and the rose wreath is made from crate paper.

I also made some other little things which I will have to take pictures of and post on my very neglected craft blog.

Now if I can just get someone to buy my beautiful house, then maybe I can work on my very behind scrapbooks!