Happy Easter!

I just wanted to hop in to wish everyone a Happy Easter. I hope your day was wonderful. Mine was calm and peaceful and almost perfect.

He is RISEN!

I'm Baaaaack!

Well, it's been a rough couple o' weeks in my world.  Yikes.  We are finally all healthy again (ya-hooo).  Hubby surprised me with a new laptop and it's soooo pretty.  My little Thomas is most excited to have his own mac-book now (he received my old one).  My new one is pretty silver just like my i-pod.  Now to get my i-phone and I'll be all mac, all the time.  

So, around here...

We've been working on a few house projects.  We made the linen closet bigger which made use of some dead space behind the door in my new room and that made a perfect spot for a built in workspace.  I'm quite excited!  We've been tearing down drywall and adding some electrical outlets (back in the 70's they didn't have as many outlets as we need today).  

Things are calm and much less chaotic and I'm feeling so much better.  Thanks to everyone who send along such kind comments - you have no idea how much it has meant to me.

I've been stitching quite a bit and now that I have my new laptop, I hope to take some photos of my stitching to share.  Now if I could just get a new camera (I'm hinting to hubby nearly every day).

Lots o' decorating going on here.  Lots of decisions to make.  I need to go and pick out and order a new window for my room, we have to do insulation and re-drywall too.  I'm doing the ceiling in pine planking and I need to choose a ceiling fan too.  Yes, I know, ceiling fans are controversial, but I love them.  I love having the windows open and the breeze from the ceiling fan is somehow comforting to me.  I'm working on choosing the right paint color and I'm designing the workspace/desk area too.  Lots of fun stuff!!  I've been taking photos so I'll share the before and afters very soon.

Easter is rapidly approaching and here in Chicago we are dealing with the snowstorm we got hit with yesterday and more nasty weather is on it's way.  Ya gotta love the crazy Chicago weather!

Gotta run along now and do some housework and stuff.  Can't play on this new computer all night ya know.

Rough Terrain

This picture depicts my life these days. Rough. Steep. Rocky.

On top of all my chaos I am faced with difficult choices.  Choices I thought I had made, but discovered I had not.  For example the color of the trim?  Initially I wanted it stained.  Then hubby wanted it cream.  I liked the cream except it's difficult to find a color that looks amazing with it.  Then it was white.  Simple.  I was okay with that.  What was cream would remain until I could repaint it white.  My room is done and done in white.  I love my room.  Then we painted my son's room in BM Shaker Beige.  His trim was already cream and looks amazing with the new wall color.  Hubby wants all the trim cream now.  My head is spinning.  I'm overwhelmed with having to think and re-think all of my choices.  

My son Vic is a never ending situation for me.  No, he's not back home.  But, that doesn't mean I'm not his mom and I don't worry.

The economy.  Oh the economy!  

So, maybe if I hide no-one will find me.

Maybe if I hide, my troubles will disappear.

Maybe if I hide, somehow everything will look clearer over time.

Maybe if I hide I can complete a thought.

Maybe if I run up that rocky hill I will come down on the other side a stronger person.