I finally decided to get a kitchen aid.  Kohls sometimes surprises me with their deals because mostly, it's just an okay deal.  The artisan kitchen aid I got came with 3 attachments and a pourer shield.  It was on sale for $350, then I used my 30%off and $150 in free credit card rewards, which brought it down to $110.  Well then there is a $30 rebate and I got $40 in kohl's cash!  If I was thinking clearly, I would have used the two other gift cards I had and forgot about.  Oh well, I still feel like I did good.  We were going to get a wheat grinder and now all I need is the mill attachment. Woot!  On other news, I have been slow with the finishing of the bonus rooms.  I put up some mud on one side, but had a headache all day yesterday and today I am just tired and depressed again.

I saw this note on Will's bed today.  I felt like the worst tooth fairy ever since he lost his tooth several months ago, I just forgot.  I think the note is shaped like a tooth. Lol. I love my kids.

I am on day 5 of my reboot juice diet.  I watched fat, sick, and nearly dead and it got me in the right mind set to want to lose weight.  Oh my goodness though, all I want to do is chew something.  I almost cheated and ate some pineapple, but if I can turn down leftover cake and carls jr, I can turn down pineapple.  So far I have lost 9 pounds, some of which is water, but who cares when you are overweight.  Every pound makes me that more motivated to keep going. lol  My goal is 30 days.  My birthday was celebrated early and the juicer was my present.  I guess Dave thought it was so expensive he didn't need to get me a card on my actual birthday :/  Anyway, I am getting ready for the garage sale, setting it all up in the garage.  I don't think I'm going to have time to go through the upstairs like I wanted, but that's ok, I will still get the baby toys and some other bigger items.  Today, we got great news.  Dave changed his exemptions on his paychecks so we would keep more and get less when tax returns came around.  We were expecting hardly anything, but as it turns out since we sold one of our rental properties, we were able to adjust our income more or something and we'll get back close to what we have gotten the last couple of years!  Not thinking, I said, "Is that before or after taxes?"  lol I told Dave I felt like celebrating, but I can't eat anything so never mind. haha  We will pay off the infiniti, fix something on the firebird, put some in savings, and with any luck be able to hire a plumber to do some rough-in work so we can get a bathroom downstairs.  We feel very blessed this year.

Well, I had a good couple of days of a pretty clean and mostly completed house.  I finished the tile, minus the pantry and to-be bathroom, and everything was put away and clean.  Then my neighborhood decided to do a multi family yard sale next week, which I have been wanting to do anyway to get rid of a bunch of stuff.  So, under the stairs and the to-be downstairs bathroom, which were both filled with boxes of a mix of trash, toys, clothes, tools, etc… are now all over the front room while I sort and price everything I want to sell.  After that, I'll just go through all of our everyday stuff and add that to my yard sale table.  It is a bit much, but I really wanted to sell some stuff and going through those boxes earlier than I had anticipated isn't entirely a bad thing.  On top of that, we had a framing contractor come over and put some studs up to convert the bonus area into 2 rooms.  Joshua loves walking through the studs and jumping the 2inches to the floor. lol  So, it has been crazy, but I am excited for everything going on.  The kids have spring break this week, but we haven't really done anything.  My birthday is Monday and I don't know what it is, but leading up to my birthdays, I always seem to get depressed.  I wish I didn't have these expectations of how good of a day I'm supposed to have because I always end up thinking I had a bad birthday because it is so boring.  Dave isn't anything of a planner or a romantic, so I may as well save us both from me getting depressed and just get a pedicure and go shopping by myself.  Speaking of depression, I have weaned off my wellbutrin and I can tell things are off, but it wasn't working as well as it used to and I have to pay $50/month for it, so we'll see how it goes without it.  As of now, I am feeling so all over the place, in a word bipolar; even though it's not manic enough to be, I am up and down a lot.  I'm hoping it's just the going off the medicine, but probably not.  

We were hosting lunch for Dave's family and I usually try to get everything set up before so I don't stress out.  I also freak out a little bit when people try to do things that aren't the way I have imagined in this setting.  So, I had everything set out on the island how I wanted it and am cutting strawberries - the last thing I had to do and people would be showing up.  I also had stacks of cups next to the drink dispenser.  I am doing pretty good and making good time when I look over and see Will filling all the cups and setting them on the table.  I immediately freaked out for some unknown reason, well actually because I had imagined everyone would grab their own cup when they were going through the line and sit where they wanted.  I didn't think I was freaking out too bad, but it was enough and Will ran out of the room and started crying, but trying to hide it.  I felt so bad, what did it even matter?  He usually gets angry and it's easy to just ignore his feelings when he is throwing a fit, but causing him sadness was something I never wanted.  I immediately apologized and told him why I freaked out but that it was actually better his way and then we talked later on about it again, but it was the saddest thing.  I never want to make him cry.  I still feel awful about it even though he said he forgave me. 

Will had another night terror tonight.  This time he was walking all over his bed and saying, "I don't know what is happening to me".  We said a prayer, just like last time, and I laid down with him until his shaking stopped and he fell back asleep.  It's crazy to think he's not really awake, though he seemed a bit more coherent than last time, yet he knows what to do when I say we will pray.  I have been selling a bunch of stuff on our city Facebook yard sale page.  I was amazed at the number of people who wanted my fake tree, and at more that I thought it was worth.  I've been doing my share of buying decor for the house though.  I need to stop looking.  I got a cute video of Maddy saying to stop decorating because the house is " too much pretty" lol.

Some before and after pics.  There's something to be said for bright and white, but I needed some warmth this time around.  It's feeling like home to me.  And the best part is, the downstairs stays relatively clean and free from toys...just liked I hoped!