Omelet breakfasts and working on organizing

We decided this morning to head over to an omelet breakfast that our local Catholic school was putting on as a fund raiser. Not only having someone cook you an omelet for breakfast sounds like a great idea, but it’s also going to a good cause.

Then after a breakfast of omelets and cinnamon rolls, off to town we went to get some groceries. I took a turkey breast out of the freezer to thaw for Monday night, but it sure seems like I can get in kind of a slump when it’s time to plan for meals. So I was hoping to be inspired today while I was walking down the aisles. I also decided to start clipping coupons again. I was really faithful with it about a year ago and then I fell off the wagon. I seem to spend more time organizing them just to throw them in the recycle bin lately. At the store I wanted to buy some things for the bathroom – toothpaste, antiperspirant, soap, you know stuff like that. There are always coupons for those things and I was able to fill my zippy bag full of them. I also wanted to pick up a couple of other things and it didn’t take long and I thought we were done. Then I remembered that I wanted some spray paint. Daryl hung out by the apples and off I went. I said that I’d be right back. When I came back with my spray paint Daryl looked really worried and asked what I was going to use ‘that’ color on. I should have said our kitchen chairs or something just to scare him, but I said that I wanted to paint my new shelf for the scrap book room. And since this room I can make as girly as I want, I decided that this color would work really well. See my walls are yellow and I think it’s going to look really good. I ended up taking the shelf down in the basement to spray it and holy cow it sure smells in the house. It’s got a pretty good chemical smell going on, even upstairs! I’m planning on putting the second coat on tomorrow morning before I leave for work. As long as the house smells, why stop now?

Before pictures of my new (old) shelf

First coat of paint on

As for the rest of the day I worked on getting some pictures organized and also organizing Daryl’s folks’ things that his family still needs to go through. I had a chance to check out some of the things when I was putting them in the totes that I bought this morning and I came across some really old papers. The papers were from 1855 and in the 1860’s when his Mom’s family bought some land. We were talking about that tonight and Iowa became a state in 1846 and the Civil War was in 1861. So the papers were signed before the Civil War. How crazy is that?

And to end the night one of Kyle’s friends dropped him off after a bunch of kids got together for the weekend down in southern Iowa. He said that he couldn’t believe how many accidents that they saw on the highway yesterday morning when they were driving and even though it was snowing, we couldn’t understand why they would have seen so many. Then on the news tonight they said that there was a 30 car pile up on that highway. What?!!  I am so glad that we didn’t know that yesterday! I think I worry about the kids too much the way it is.

Oh well, we’re all getting ready for bed and tomorrow we’ll start the week all over again.