FEMALE BONDS (ie acrylic nails)

Kari is going to school to learn how to do nails. I know it can be hard to find models sometimes so I volunteered to be a model if she needed one. Saturday May 28th early in the morning I was her first model. It took a little time and they were a little thick but not bad for her first set. Her instructor kept saying how good the nails were. I was thinking I would leave them on for awhile, maybe I will like them I thought. I was WRONG!

I got home around lunch time and thought they aren't too bad. I tried to eat lunch, nachos, it was so hard I ended up eating them with a spoon. The rest of the night they weren't bugging me, in fact they were fun to play with. Sunday morning I tried to shower. It was so hard to wash my hair. The getting dress was hard I needed help buttoning my skirt and It was hard to tuck in my shirt. I was walking around the house say I felt like Calypso (Pirates of the Caribbean) and I needed to be freed from my female bonds.

Sunday night I started to take the nails off. It was taking forever. I got most of it off the left hand and on the right hand I got all the tips off and filed smooth but it is still thick on the nail plate.

Cheaters Never Prosper

Alma brought me his math to check today. I was going over the answers and quite amazed that he did so good. When I got to the last page I see " answers will vary". I called Alma in and asked if he had cheated. He admitted  that he had. After talking alittle he said he had been cheating for days. I asked "You thought you were smarter than mom?" He nodded. I told him that cheating never pays off. That he may get away with it for a couple of days or a couple of weeks but that he would always get caught. It is funny. Jere and I keep laughing about it. As his punishment he had to carry concrete up from the basement AND do more math pages.

Projects, Projects and More Projects

The last couple of days we have been busy tearing the downstairs bathroom apart. The people we bought the house from made it look pretty but not water proof, and in a shower that isn't good. I'm scared how much it is going to cost us to remodel it. We were just planning on redoing the shower but as we got into it ALL the walls came down. Who uses plywood and not sheet rock?!?! Most likely Jere will have to move the drains, not fun. Alma is really a big help now that he is older. He deos all the "running" that we don't want to do. I will post more as we get into it

Another project we have in mind is tilling the front and back yard. Then laying a sprinkler system and grass seed. That will be lots of work.

And ANOTHER project is repainting the kitchen. Finishing the basement and painting it as well.

On top of all that we are planning on using the plywood from the bathroom to build a shed or a compost box.

Lots to do, we will see if we get it done.

A few of my (Alma's) favorite things

Saturday after dinner Alma had a busy night. First he painted, spray painted that is, his dragon sculpture. Then he came in the house and played the piano. Next he went to help Jere with a computer and finished the night off with helping bake cookies. He definitely is well rounded, maybe slightly right brained.

The finished project