Obsession

I can't stop thinking...
[Maybe you prefer to call it obsessing...]

It's just whatever...

Here's what my brain has been up to while the rest of the world sleeps!


*Maddox's birthday is like a minute away.
Typically I have been working on it for months...
Ideas going crazy...

Like the first bash (pre-blogging days):

And the 2nd birthday.

This time, however, I am ridiculously behind.
I've got nothing.
Nothing.
Are you reading this?
I.Have.Not.Done.A.Thing.

It will be fireman.
[mainly because we already have "props"]
It will be on the 9th...
there will be a slide and water...

But I have not ordered/ made invitations...
cake...
favors...
details...

*I'm spending hours on Etsy.
looking for birthday ideas...
which turns into kid stuff..
then house ideas...
Like this sign I need for the play room.

from TheWheatField

*Playroom?
I have decided we are going to put the boys together and use the old office as a playroom once we get back in our home.
Originally I wanted to put the boys in the bigger room and use Maddox's old room as the playroom, but Lance talked me out of it.

Beckham will just use Maddox's old crib bedding (since it matches the walls) and I on-purposely bought Maddox's twin bedding to match also, so he could use his throw pillows that came with his bedding.
This means I don't get to do my serene baby room with the scripture on the wall...
But I get to decorate nonetheless.

So now I find myself on blogs finding cool playroom ideas [that we could never do] like this.
Researching paint schemes.
Organizing bins.
And roaming Ikea for ideas and storage on a dime.
Oh my gosh there's so much cuteness out there!


*Re-decorating.
Thinking about all the things I am going to change when I get back to Haslet has got me giddy.
I dream of the flips I can make-- old into new, like this guy. 
[But realizing that's completely unrealistic.]

Photography.
To fill my walls.
[and actually of my kids this time, rather than only my precious nieces and nephews]


Dreaming about a completely different feel.
Which isn't anything new!

Since Lance has seen me do this several times before!
 [I could never get a tattoo, because I change my bedspread too often to be stuck with something for life]

*Spray paint.
And the things I want to attack.
Picture frames...
Table and chairs...
What else???

*Pinterest.
New love.
Petri dish of ideas.
Obsessed.

Thank me [or hate me] later...


*And follow her.
Whom I found on the site above.
I will do some of this once we get back home.
Amazing.
I will also re-order from Town & Country, because I forget how easy it is to make dinner, when I am prepared to do so. 
No excuses.
I need that cookbook she talks about in her blog.
In a bad way.


*Ray Lamontagne
ummm, ummm, um.

Thank you Kaleb.


*My hair.
Long, short.
Dark or blonde?
Lance said he likes it dark--
My SIL likes it short...
I promised myself I would keep it long...
I want change.

I could do the whole feather thing... which I do think its cute-cute.
But it looks like a peacock exploded in our local walmart,
And I like to beat to my own drum.


*Time alone.
In quiet.
Maybe a date with my husband.

Or maybe with no one at all.
I crave silence.

And to finish (or better yet, start) my books.


and so the list goes on....