So last night I created a Wish List on iTunes for songs I want to put together on a little play list for the nursery. So far I have an Enya album, Jewel's new Lullaby album and some Baby Einstein instrumental songs. Here's the think to my wish list if any of you (wink, wink, nudge nudge) feel the urge to gift me some songs from it. Note: you have to have iTunes installed to view the list.
I'm finding it's hard to decide what I want to start planning for with the baby because we don't know what we're having yet. July could not get here fast enough. I found a bedding set I really like for a little girls room - here - but nothing is really jumping out at me for a boy's room. I'm not interested (so far) in the traditional animals or sports or fire engines or dogs or planes or whatnot.
I told the work yesterday the news. They're all excited and I have another offer to make a quilt.
Well, I guess that's really all the news from Casa Beesley. Nothing much exciting to report, just more of the same. :-)
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
The cat's out of the bag
I haven't been blogging much. I've had a secret that I've been keeping to myself and I just couldn't think of anything else to blog about so I just didn't.
For any of you that read my blog that haven't already heard the news, we're expecting! Baby Beesley should make his or her appearance some time around December 16th. We're so very excited! We wanted to wait until 12 weeks before sharing with pretty much everyone, just to be safe. I've been trying to follow all the rules, so far the hardest thing has been giving up Subway (see here to learn about listeria and why it's bad for pregnant women).
Anyway, aside from that news, we've also bought a new car. We traded in my slowly but surely falling apart Lancer for a spiffy new Ford Fusion. It's a nice and safe car (and it's FANCY - it has a sunroof and it has that Microsoft Sync so it talks to me like Kit). We were on the warpath to get an SUV or small truck, something with 4 wheel drive that we could use camping, but in the end safety won.
Nick finished his Spring quarter with great grades - about a 3.5 GPA (an A, a B & a B+). Summer quarter starts June 8th and goes through August 30th. Graduation should be right about then, so we'll be having some sort of party to celebrate. Then it's 1 and a half more years for his Bachelors and he's all done!
I've also decided to set aside Scentsy for now. I just don't have the motivation to spend on building it and now with the baby coming, I'd rather spend my free time planning for baby than planning for Scentsy. If any of you still want stuff and don't want to find a new local consultant, my bestie Susan sells out in Ohio and she'd love to be your consultant. Just let me know & I'll hook you up with her. :-)
The weather is getting HOT here. It's been mostly in the 90s for about 2 weeks now. We did go camping over Memorial Day weekend and had pretty nice weather. It did rain almost all night on Saturday but the other days were great. Hopefully I'll be up to more camping as the summer goes on.
Well, for a month of not posting, I guess there isn't much to say. Now that the news it out, I'll be better about blogging and sharing my pregnancy journey with you.
For any of you that read my blog that haven't already heard the news, we're expecting! Baby Beesley should make his or her appearance some time around December 16th. We're so very excited! We wanted to wait until 12 weeks before sharing with pretty much everyone, just to be safe. I've been trying to follow all the rules, so far the hardest thing has been giving up Subway (see here to learn about listeria and why it's bad for pregnant women).
Anyway, aside from that news, we've also bought a new car. We traded in my slowly but surely falling apart Lancer for a spiffy new Ford Fusion. It's a nice and safe car (and it's FANCY - it has a sunroof and it has that Microsoft Sync so it talks to me like Kit). We were on the warpath to get an SUV or small truck, something with 4 wheel drive that we could use camping, but in the end safety won.
Nick finished his Spring quarter with great grades - about a 3.5 GPA (an A, a B & a B+). Summer quarter starts June 8th and goes through August 30th. Graduation should be right about then, so we'll be having some sort of party to celebrate. Then it's 1 and a half more years for his Bachelors and he's all done!
I've also decided to set aside Scentsy for now. I just don't have the motivation to spend on building it and now with the baby coming, I'd rather spend my free time planning for baby than planning for Scentsy. If any of you still want stuff and don't want to find a new local consultant, my bestie Susan sells out in Ohio and she'd love to be your consultant. Just let me know & I'll hook you up with her. :-)
The weather is getting HOT here. It's been mostly in the 90s for about 2 weeks now. We did go camping over Memorial Day weekend and had pretty nice weather. It did rain almost all night on Saturday but the other days were great. Hopefully I'll be up to more camping as the summer goes on.
Well, for a month of not posting, I guess there isn't much to say. Now that the news it out, I'll be better about blogging and sharing my pregnancy journey with you.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
A Demanded Update
Well, Happy Birthday Rob! And Tina! And anyone else that might be having a birthday today. Rob, we mailed your card but you know....it didn't get out in the mail til yesterday...so....you prolly won't be getting it til Friday.... oops
Nothing much new on the Beesley front. Nick's half way through this quarter already (already!! midterms!!). His birthday is coming up on Friday and his present is hiding in the garage in plain site, but he'll pretend he doesn't see it til Friday. :-) It works for us. My dad helped me go get it and that was an adventure in itself. The guy first tells me to hurry up and tell him if I want it, cuz he's got other people that want it too (I got it on Craigstlist - and I'm deliberately leaving out what I got him), so I said yes, I did and would he be free this evening. He said he would be all night. So, I arrange for my dad to take me out to get it in his truck and I tell the guy I'll be there at about 6:30. So he says to call him before we come out to make sure he's there.......I thought he said he'd be free? Confusion. So I called on my way and he informs me that he's leaving for 2 hours, but we can just let ourselves into his backyard and then leave the money with his neighbor........you should have seen my face on the phone. Really??? Does he sell much on craigslist? Does he get paid for it often?????? Well, we got there and I saw some one inside, so I rang the bell. It's his daughter, who has no idea what's going on. The neighbor chased me down in the yard............end of the story is that I got the thing, paid the girl and left.
Easter was good. I cooked (potato salad, apple pie and a ham) and brought it to my mom's. We colored eggs, my dad and I did our traditional egg hunt (no, really - he hides them for me, and I hide them for him). my brother and his family came over to eat and hang out for a little while, which was nice to see everyone.
Connor had a baseball game on Saturday and their team won! It was a great game, the weather was mostly nice (I got sunburned! first sunburn of the season!) and again, it was great to see everyone.
Tomorrow after work I'm off to tend to the girls while Jamie coaches Connor's game, as Carin's at a school thing. :-) I love being close enough to help out! AND!!! Hannah has asked me to help her redecorate her room! One of her friends just got a "teenagers" room and Hannah wants one, too. She's 7. I'll keep it mostly age appropriate and will try to make it easily transitionalable (is that a word? well, it is now) as she gets older. I'll let you know how it goes!
On an unrelated note: I have almost 40 bars of Scentsy on hand. Let me know if you're running low and I'll email ya what I have in stock. :-)
Bye now!
Nothing much new on the Beesley front. Nick's half way through this quarter already (already!! midterms!!). His birthday is coming up on Friday and his present is hiding in the garage in plain site, but he'll pretend he doesn't see it til Friday. :-) It works for us. My dad helped me go get it and that was an adventure in itself. The guy first tells me to hurry up and tell him if I want it, cuz he's got other people that want it too (I got it on Craigstlist - and I'm deliberately leaving out what I got him), so I said yes, I did and would he be free this evening. He said he would be all night. So, I arrange for my dad to take me out to get it in his truck and I tell the guy I'll be there at about 6:30. So he says to call him before we come out to make sure he's there.......I thought he said he'd be free? Confusion. So I called on my way and he informs me that he's leaving for 2 hours, but we can just let ourselves into his backyard and then leave the money with his neighbor........you should have seen my face on the phone. Really??? Does he sell much on craigslist? Does he get paid for it often?????? Well, we got there and I saw some one inside, so I rang the bell. It's his daughter, who has no idea what's going on. The neighbor chased me down in the yard............end of the story is that I got the thing, paid the girl and left.
Easter was good. I cooked (potato salad, apple pie and a ham) and brought it to my mom's. We colored eggs, my dad and I did our traditional egg hunt (no, really - he hides them for me, and I hide them for him). my brother and his family came over to eat and hang out for a little while, which was nice to see everyone.
Connor had a baseball game on Saturday and their team won! It was a great game, the weather was mostly nice (I got sunburned! first sunburn of the season!) and again, it was great to see everyone.
Tomorrow after work I'm off to tend to the girls while Jamie coaches Connor's game, as Carin's at a school thing. :-) I love being close enough to help out! AND!!! Hannah has asked me to help her redecorate her room! One of her friends just got a "teenagers" room and Hannah wants one, too. She's 7. I'll keep it mostly age appropriate and will try to make it easily transitionalable (is that a word? well, it is now) as she gets older. I'll let you know how it goes!
On an unrelated note: I have almost 40 bars of Scentsy on hand. Let me know if you're running low and I'll email ya what I have in stock. :-)
Bye now!
Monday, March 30, 2009
Beesley's: Budget Wise
Well, this month (April) kicks off a new 'tude in Casa Beesley. We've kind of gotten in a bad habit of waiting until the last day possible to make our house payment. This got us into trouble in February because the last day to pay our house payment is the 16th before it's late. Well, we forgot to do it the Friday before and the 16th was a holiday and the banks were closed. So, now we have a late payment on our record and that's just bad news bears. So, we've started being thrifty. We're clipping coupons, shopping the ads and sticking to a grocery budget. We're starting fresh for April. April 1st, we're paying our house payment and all the bills we let slide because we were on vacation to Florida and spent more money than we should. Things will be tight til the middle of the month check, but we're just going to start living like things are always tight and start building our savings account back up. If something should happen (knock on wood) and I lose my job, Nick & I are SCREWED. We can make things work on my paycheck if he loses his job, but he doesn't make enough to support us on just his check.
Being thrifty is causing us to do more stuff at home. Things I'd been wanting to do and putting off because it's more fun to go shopping or out to eat are starting to get done. Our garage is all clean and organized. We still need to get some sort of storage system out there (shelving and such) and I'd still like to get a chest freezer, but at least it's organized. This weekend we worked on the office and changed it to more of a crafting room. Nick's going to find some time and hook up the extra TV we have in that room and run some cable to it so I can watch TV while I make cards or maybe actually scrapbook one day!!! :-) We even measured our backsplash so when we finally decide what we want to do, we know how much of whatever it is that we need to get (our latest inspiration is beadboard. I saw it on TV and a beadboard backsplash looks really awesome!).
I need to make a plan for our yard and start getting it going. Our maple tree out front got broken in half in a windstorm we had last year and is dead. It needs to come out. We didn't ever get our sprinklers blown out last year, so I'm hoping that if we wait, wait, wait until the ground is fully unfrozen before attempting to turn it on that we won't have any breaks. I also need to do something with our bedroom. It's blank, boring and blah. I bought a bed in a bad deal at Linens & Things when they were having their store closing specials and I hated it 2 minutes after we bought it. It's nice but it's not what I want for my room. Sigh.
Well, spring appears to be roaring in like a lion here. We've had some rain, storms, wind, and some sunshine. Not too many warm days yet. I'm hoping this wind dies off soon, because I want to enjoy our outdoor fireplace. We had a yucky windstorm move through this weekend. Thankfully our house is pretty protected by the way it sits in our cul de sac and we didn't have any problems (a couple of chairs got scattered about in the back yard, but nothing major). Nothing like this:
these images were stolen from www.ktvb.com
It's still windy and FREEZING today. brrrrrr.
Well, that's about it. More later!
Being thrifty is causing us to do more stuff at home. Things I'd been wanting to do and putting off because it's more fun to go shopping or out to eat are starting to get done. Our garage is all clean and organized. We still need to get some sort of storage system out there (shelving and such) and I'd still like to get a chest freezer, but at least it's organized. This weekend we worked on the office and changed it to more of a crafting room. Nick's going to find some time and hook up the extra TV we have in that room and run some cable to it so I can watch TV while I make cards or maybe actually scrapbook one day!!! :-) We even measured our backsplash so when we finally decide what we want to do, we know how much of whatever it is that we need to get (our latest inspiration is beadboard. I saw it on TV and a beadboard backsplash looks really awesome!).
I need to make a plan for our yard and start getting it going. Our maple tree out front got broken in half in a windstorm we had last year and is dead. It needs to come out. We didn't ever get our sprinklers blown out last year, so I'm hoping that if we wait, wait, wait until the ground is fully unfrozen before attempting to turn it on that we won't have any breaks. I also need to do something with our bedroom. It's blank, boring and blah. I bought a bed in a bad deal at Linens & Things when they were having their store closing specials and I hated it 2 minutes after we bought it. It's nice but it's not what I want for my room. Sigh.
Well, spring appears to be roaring in like a lion here. We've had some rain, storms, wind, and some sunshine. Not too many warm days yet. I'm hoping this wind dies off soon, because I want to enjoy our outdoor fireplace. We had a yucky windstorm move through this weekend. Thankfully our house is pretty protected by the way it sits in our cul de sac and we didn't have any problems (a couple of chairs got scattered about in the back yard, but nothing major). Nothing like this:
It's still windy and FREEZING today. brrrrrr.
Well, that's about it. More later!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Tedium Tuesday
Well, it's Tuesday evening and here I sit. Nick is off to class and I'm waiting for Dancing With The Stars results show to turn on. Yes. this is my super fantastic life. The glamour. The intrigue. The sparkles (tee hee).
Anyway, we're about two weeks int to our new life schedule. So far it isnt' as bad as I thought it would be. Monday's, Wednesday's & Friday's Nick's at work from 12:30 pm til 9:00 at night. I've been taking my lunch earlier on those days so I can come home and have lunch with him before he heads out for his work day. Then I come home from work and fix dinner and take it to him on his evening break. I'm still up when he gets home from work, so we get to see each other off and on through out the day. Tuesday's and Thurday's are a bit different, as he goes to work from 8:30 am til 5:00 pm. Then he has school at 6:00. He as just enough time to come home and grab a quick bite before heading back out to school. I see him for maybe 2 minutes when he gets home. Then Saturday's he's at school from 9:00-12:00. So at least we have most of the weekend. But, over all it's not as bad as I thought it would be. The majority of the week we see each other off and on through out the day and that really helps.
Let's see, in other "exciting" news - we did a bit of spring cleaning this weekend and got our garage all nice and tidy.
okay - random side bar - for any of you that watch DWTS too, REALLY?!?!?! The Woz is safe? REALLY!?!? REALLY!??!? are you KIDDING me right now? UGH!
Okay. Sorry. This is what happens when you blog while watching TV. Random bursts. :-)
I really have nothing that exciting to post about. As usual.
Well, I've had this open for like 20 minutes with nothing new added, so apparently I have nothing of any interest to add. So, off I go. Ta ta now.
Anyway, we're about two weeks int to our new life schedule. So far it isnt' as bad as I thought it would be. Monday's, Wednesday's & Friday's Nick's at work from 12:30 pm til 9:00 at night. I've been taking my lunch earlier on those days so I can come home and have lunch with him before he heads out for his work day. Then I come home from work and fix dinner and take it to him on his evening break. I'm still up when he gets home from work, so we get to see each other off and on through out the day. Tuesday's and Thurday's are a bit different, as he goes to work from 8:30 am til 5:00 pm. Then he has school at 6:00. He as just enough time to come home and grab a quick bite before heading back out to school. I see him for maybe 2 minutes when he gets home. Then Saturday's he's at school from 9:00-12:00. So at least we have most of the weekend. But, over all it's not as bad as I thought it would be. The majority of the week we see each other off and on through out the day and that really helps.
Let's see, in other "exciting" news - we did a bit of spring cleaning this weekend and got our garage all nice and tidy.
okay - random side bar - for any of you that watch DWTS too, REALLY?!?!?! The Woz is safe? REALLY!?!? REALLY!??!? are you KIDDING me right now? UGH!
Okay. Sorry. This is what happens when you blog while watching TV. Random bursts. :-)
I really have nothing that exciting to post about. As usual.
Well, I've had this open for like 20 minutes with nothing new added, so apparently I have nothing of any interest to add. So, off I go. Ta ta now.
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