You Skeptics!

It is installed!

For all you out there who didn't know we are a family that

purchases products from infomercials!

Let me clarify...my husband purchases these items!

We ordered the Magic Mesh last summer, you know the screen with the "stratigically placed magnets" that allow you to walk through the screen and it will close behind you.  I could pretty much repeat it word for word :)

Anywho this screen was too wide for our deck door so I had to do some alterations hence why it was only installed today and not last summer.

It's up ... it works ... and there may be another one still in the box lying around the house somewhere...

because if you order one ... they will send you another....

you just pay the extra shipping and handling :)

Mardi's Skirt

Here is the first item of clothing I have ever knitted!  It is pretty simple and thankfully that is what I chose as my first project!  I am very pleased at how it turned out.

I finished it at 12:30am and left it on the couch...

As you can see Mardi left me a note on it for when I woke (!)...

Love her!  She rocks!!!

He is FAMOUS!

My son is famous...

Three weeks ago Jack and I were at the optometrist office getting some new glasses (shocking I know!) and we were asked if it would be ok to have Jack come back in a couple of weeks to take his picture.  They told us about this project they were starting where they would take pictures of their young patients with glasses, make them into laminated boards and hang them throughout the office.  This way kids needing glasses in the future could see other kids and maybe even kids they know on the walls sporting glasses.  Jack just grinned...until we got into the truck!

I think the gears were just smokin in his mind because when we got into the truck he told me that this meant he was going to be famous!  Not only would he be famous but I would have to treat him differently?!  Not sure how many Entertainment Tonight's he has watched but he knows that when you are famous people do everything for you (not sure how this is different than the life he is already accustomed to!).

So yesterday we were called to the office for his photo to be taken.  After it was done he said that now people will be stopping him and asking for his autograph!

This led to today's role playing...

Jack found a box that he said would be perfect for his papers, his autograph papers.  He hired his sister to cut all the papers he needed and she agreed to be his assistant.  She was running around calling him "Boss" because they wanted Jack to remain anonymous so people weren't screaming "Oh it's Jack"!

This is his name tag that he constructed - tape secured!

And here is the autograph I asked for - you may get one as well however you need to come here (his safe place, away from paparazzi) his home!

Lino Update

Today the insurance adjustor came to look at our wrecked linoleum.  The flooring man was unsure if they would cover this or not, but I found out today they are going to!  Trust me I do not want the mess and destruction of new flooring but we decided that if we are going to put this house on the market in the future we had better fix it right.  A feather in my hat when the adjustor said that there was no doubt that this was a accident as my home looks like a show home :)  He said that he has been to homes where the house and the floors are a disaster and the damage is questionable.  So after a trip to the flooring store to attain a date for an estimate to be done and a quick look at some new flooring options I have the ball rolling.