I am a terrible, horrible person

I took a bath tonight. Now, before you start laughing, we are 78 days away from the end of the (easy) water supply here in Atlanta. But I wanted a bath so badly tonight I figured what the heck. I have become anal-retentive about water in the last few months. I turn my water off when I'm brushing my teeth, when I'm washing my hands, actually pretty much all of the time. (I still haven't gotten into the habit of turning it off while soaping up in the shower, but I'm sure that's coming.) I'm forever after the boys about walking away from the sink while the water is still running, and I think Jeremy's even tired of me nagging him to turn the water off. I'm even to the point of adjusting the water in the washing machine so it doesn't go above the level of the clothes even an inch. And don't even get me started on my agonizing over the dishwasher. Am I using more water running the dishwasher (full, mind you) every three days or washing the dishes in the sink? Life in the middle of a drought is HARD. But I do have times when I blow it off, like tonight. This is probably the first bath I've taken in months. But it felt so good, and I'm three weeks away from having a baby, so I think I deserve a little bit of leeway. Who knows, if it doesn't rain soon, we'll be down to sponge baths.

By the way, if you get a chance, say a prayer for my parents tonight. They got home from Mississippi tonight and discovered that their house had been broken into. It sounds like the only thing taken was the computer, but my mom was pretty shaken up about it. It stinks that they are in Mississippi for a week helping people who still don't have their homes rebuilt two years later, and they have to come home to this.

Two Boys + One Room = Fun for All!

We went out last Sunday evening and bought a set of bunk beds for the boys. Yes, my children are sleeping in beds from Wal-Mart. But, hey, they were only $179 for solid wood beds. I really couldn't complain since the beds I was finding in the classifieds were $200, and they were used. These are really nice. Here's a picture of the boys in them.

Yes, I know it's really hard to see Nathan.

So we started putting them together on Monday night. There was not a single piece attached to another piece when we started. Even the slats on the headboards and footboards needed to be put in. We had decided to just put together Nathan's bed and get it in his room. At four and a half it's really time he moved out of the toddler bed. We had the headboard and footboard attached to the side rails when we decided we needed to move it into Nathan's room before we added the slats that the matress lays on. So, we started moving it down the hallway. Except, our hallway is to narrow for the bed. Ugh. We got it back in the living room (I knew there was a good reason I hadn't bought any living room furniture yet), and decided to wait until Tuesday to get everything together. Plus, it was 8:30, and I hadn't even eaten supper yet.

Tuesday, when I got home, I started taking Matthew's old bed apart, getting parts of his new bed put together, and taking the headboard of Nathan's bed off so we could move it into Matthew's room. When Jeremy got home, he got Matthew's old bed out of the room, and we moved Nathan's bed in. Then, we were able to finish putting his bed together and getting his mattress on the bed. So we knew that no matter what, we had a bed to put Matthew in. We were able to get his bed together, however. Plus, we were even able to get the top bunk on top of the bottom bunk!! Both of the boys were very excited when we finished. Probably too excited since it took them a little bit of time to calm down. They did finally fall asleep, but they were up again at 3:00 am having a party. We had to put Nathan in his old room. It's a good thing we kept his bed up as the ultimate threat. While he wasn't happy, they both did fall back asleep. Unfortunately, I didn't until 5:00. Last night went a little better. It took them some time to fall asleep, but they did stay asleep the whole night. We'll see how the rest of the week goes!

Here's Matthew on the top bunk.

And here's Nathan on the bottom.

Happy Halloween!

I know it's a few days late, but here are some pictures from Halloween. Matthew was an emergency room doctor. He wanted to be a Ninja, but I told him tough luck about that. Nathan was a pirate. He just loved having the hat, hook, and eyepatch.

Since Wednesday is usually Awana night, our church sponsored a Fall Festival in the parking lot. There were moonwalks and games for the kids. There was also candy for the kids. The boys had a great time. Nathan's already asking about when the Fall Festival will come back!


Here's Nathan "fishing" for candy.










Matthew jumping on the moonwalk.