Painted kitchen

Here is the old color of the kitchen. 

Here the kitchen is after we painted it beige

I even organized some cupboards.  Yeah me.

chicks getting bigger...and uglier

 All their poof is starting to go away...feathers are coming out and they are definitely growing tons.

Little Cuties!!!

These are our little chicks.  They are golden comets and they will lay brown eggs.  I can't wait until the kids get home and see them.  They have wanted chicks for a long time.  I hope this chicken thing is as easy as they say...

Steve's Uuucky Foot... Warning graphic pictures ahead...

Here is some pictures of Steve's foot...had to take him back to the doctor today because it was getting red and ooozy...and he was running a low temp we found out.  Warning...

This on the bottom is where the drain came out after surgery.  The doctor opened that blistery thing up and it drained gook out.  Very cool. He says it feels much better now.  Lots less pressure.  The doctor also upped his antibiotics.  Return appointment on Mon.  Hopefully it will be looking better by then!!!

To Do List Today...

I feel the need to organize myself. 

1. Laundry (most done yesterday) but need to get to sheets etc.

2. Kitchen...shouldn't take too long...just have to get going

3. Pick up dining room and living room...sweep floors

4. Clean bathrooms

5. Pick up our bedroom...how does it get so messy when we only sleep in there???

There only 5 things on my list.  Problem is it could easily take me most of the day to do one of them.  Time to get dressed and get moving.

update...

Steve did great yesterday.  He is feeling fine and has had no pain at all. 

...Water softener second opinion...they fixed it for $80. 

Now on to the car situation...waiting for it all to work out.  Van fixed for $300.  Not too bad so far.

Things are working out fine.

Our Crazy Life...

This week has been crazy.  Well lets start out with a few weeks ago we found out Steve's car would cost about $700 to fix.  Since it is only worth way less than that we were formulating other plans...so he began driving the van to work.  Last Fri the van broke down on the side of the road.  Still waiting to here if it is worth fixing...Then the water softener broke that softens the water for the whole house.  Our water is terrible and this is not something one can live without for long.  They could fix it for about$600 but didn't recommend we do that as other things could go wrong since the system is about 20 years old.  They recommend a new system...I keep blanking out what they said that would cost...a couple thousand.  Steve is having surgery on his foot tomorrow and will be out of work for about a month.  Not only are they going to use all his vacation for his recovery but then he gets disability at 60% of his pay.  It is going to be a tight month to say the least.  Still trying to figure out what to do...where to spend or not spend the money...We thought we would be ok with the surgery because we have some tax return left...now it looks as if it will all disappear quickly.   For whatever reason we haven't been able to make any decisions right now.  I think denial is where we are at right now.    My plan is to get Steve through the surgery and then maybe we will be able to make some  other decisions.  It isn't like me to be so calm about this kind of stuff or to not jump in and make a decision about what we should do first and how.  I have been doing a lot of praying about it and hoping his weird calm is because the Lord is going to open up a way to accomplish all the things that need to be done. Trying to be patient that I will get some answers soon.