*Yay!*:)

Hi hi!:)

Good news! Our floors are do-able and not for an arm, leg or kidney:) Paul and I were so surprised by the price the guy gave us. I HONESTLY thought we were looking around $4000 or more. The guy kinda looked at me funny when he told me what it was and I gushed, "OMG THAT'S AWESOME!":) He also gave us a price for the kitchen, however, I think we are going to hold off on that until we do a kitchen re-do. Probably not a great idea to put so much money into it and then later on have to rework it as well. I think we'll just go and put something cheaper down (get that carpet out--no, we didn't put carpet in the kitchen. Someone who didn't have children must have done that) until we do the re-do:) *dances*dances*dances* The man said they'd take it down to the boards then stain it whatever color we choose and then put 2 coats of polyurethane on it. Plus they are going to put new baseboards down for us. He said he has some really nice "colonial" baseboards in his shop. What we have now are basic ranch and they look yucky to me. Paul and I had been talking about it anyway so he said he would put those down and the 'base shoe' (little finishing off piece at the bottom). So Paul and I were like, "coooool":) We have to give the man 5 wks notice though because he has so much going on. Another thing the flooring man brought up was that he does custom inlays and such. He looked so excited telling me about how he loves to get out in his shop and work with different woods and create things. I told him he sounded like my younger brother:) Justin does wood work and he is always talking about wood. He's my 'go-to' guy when I need to know something about that:) Anyway, I found a pattern that he did in another house called 'basket weave'. It is lovely. I told Paul that I'd love to maybe do something like that in the kitchen once we start on it. I'm so excited:) Now the decision is for the color. That's going to be a tough one. I just hope it doesn't take us as long to pick that out as it has to find or settle on a living room set.

Paul got home from California last night *yay!*:) He said he has to go back out in 3 wks. I don't mind him going out there (really wouldn't matter if I did seeing as it's for work) but I just don't like the fact he has to fly. I hate flying. So it's really the coming and going that I have a problem with. Hopefully it won't be for much longer. I told him this morning that if he speaks to me very nice today, I'll make him roast chicken, roast potatoes and gravy for supper. I haven't made that in a few weeks. In the winter, it seems to be a staple with us. Sometimes a couple times a week. He loves it. It's harder to make it in the fall and spring because the boys are always having soccer practices or games every day but Wednesdays. So seeing as it's Wednesday, I think I could probably do that for him:) The only thing we really have going today is Sarah has ballet for a couple of hours but I can drop her off and run back home. Nutcracker auditions are on Sunday. Someone told her she'd probably be either a toy soldier, snow baby or bonbon. If I remember right, toy soldiers didn't dance. I don't send her to ballet and to extra classes so she gets a non-dancing part. I could be wrong about not dancing... I guess as long as she's happy that should be all that matters.

I feel like baking today. I don't do a lot of baking normally but I there is a recipe on my recipe site that I came across and it sounds so good. Maybe I'll make that and take it out to Matthew's soccer practice tomorrow for the grown-ups. It's a Bundt Coffee Cake. Maybe take that and some coffee-- providing it's not raining. We'll see how far I get:)

Well yall have a great day today. We are supposed to be getting 48 hours more of rain. I cacn't image we can have much more rain before we all float away.

*Kat heads off to find her pirogue and umberellas*