Stuff

I've been catching some slack for my shorter than normal posts. In my defense, it is awfully tricky to write such verbose posts from a phone.  Anyhow, you asked for it... (well, one of you did.  The rest of you, enjoy. :)

I recently discovered that Kael doesn't do puzzles starting with the outside pieces, then filling in the middle.  Rather, he does them from left to right.  This is fascinating to me.  I don't know anyone else who does puzzles like that, do you?

Kent has turned into quite the handyman for me. Please excuse the blurry iPhone photos.  I'm still working on filling the first set of shelves with pictures, but the shelves themselves are PERFECT.  I love them and seriously am considering filling every open wall in the house with the same.exact.shelves.

This next one I saw on Pinterest, but the ones I saw used four crates instead of two.  For one, Kase is small and we really just needed a small shelf.  Secondly, Kent and I were tired of priming and painting.  Third of all, I had only bought two crates to begin with and the day I planned to go back and get another it was freezing rain out and I refused to get out of my pajamas to go across town for another crate.

OK so Kase LOVES these next shelves Kent built him! He stands there and pulls every single book out. Have you seen this idea on Pinterest also? The idea is to use IKEA spice racks behind kids doors for books.  Mega space saver, right? It's just that I'm not trekking all the way to IKEA for $4 spice racks.  Enter Kent.  He built them for me using leftover wood from previous projects.  In other words, FREE! Take that, $4 IKEA shelves! ;)

In other news, Kase thinks he can climb stairs.  He can't.  But he sure looks cute trying.

This morning before school Kylee and I whipped up a batch of homemade granola bars.  I was out of chocolate chips so we used peanut butter chips.  They turned out fine, mostly I was excited that we made 28 granola bars for literally pennies.  I figured out the other day that I serve 33 after school snacks every week (7 on MTWF and just 5 on Thursdays).  So any opportunity to save money on after school snacks is a total win in my book.

There is far too much wrestling in this house, if you ask me.

Could someone please teach me how to hold my hand more steady when I am taking phone pictures? Honestly, Laura. Do better.

Kent is in Georgia for work for a few days.  He's been gone for 7 hours which means that I have only about 50 hours left to get through until he gets home.  Not that I'm on the countdown or anything.  We miss you, Kent!!!