Milking It

Here was my little sicky last night.

She did seem to be feeling better-no fever and the areas on her leg are almost gone, but she was still somewhat pitiful. We have been on a cleaning out the house kick and after dinner we worked on an armoire in the front room that was crammed full of china, serving dishes, and a bunch of other random stuff. We set Av up on the couch with The Jungle Book in the portable DVD player.I knew she was feeling better when she got off the couch to help me dust. She loves being a helper!! What you can't see in the picture is the contents of the armoire strewn all over the front room and dining room. We separated into a donate pile, trash pile, and keep pile. Now what we're keeping is organized with room to spare. Later I really knew Av was on the upswing when I told her it was time for bed and she ran into the den proclaiming she wanted us to do somersaults. Let's just say that if she were in school, she would have gone to school today!

Now that we're adjusting to one income for a while we've found that house/yard projects are a good and free way for us to spend time together (sans TV!) and be productive. It feels great to have all of those places that were overflowing cleaned out now. It's also a great incentive to eat off of what we already have in the deep freeze and cabinets. As a result we're trying new recipes and just getting the basics at the store.

Job update-I have some promising possibilities, so we'll see where it takes us. God really has been so good to us over the week. Even though we're short a paycheck, J received an expense check this week and we got our tax returns. For an added bonus, the state caught a mistake that actually gave us MORE money on our return!! When does that ever happen?!?!