This week's excitement

The days just seem to fly by lately! We're in the middle of a major redo in our house. We decided that with our tax returns we needed to spiff up the house, so....this week has been filled with tearing things apart, moving furniture to allow painting, etc. and just making bigger messes in general. We are putting laminate flooring in the sitting room, entry, hallway, kitchen and dining area and new carpet in the familyroom and down the stairs. Of course, that means painting everywhere first! The sitting room has received a fresh coat of beautiful gold paint (Jay is putting the finishing touches on it right now!) and the rest will just get a touchup of the current color. Whew! What a job! Thank goodness spring break is next week so we will hopefully have time to get it all done. And did I mention we are putting the laminate in ourselves?! Those of you that know Jay will understand the irony in that. Give him any kind of a ball and he's a pro. Put a hammer in his hand and he's lost. He's actually getting better and I keep trying to tell him he can do it, but he's a little intimidated. The guy we ordered the flooring from said it's basically idiot-proof so I'm hoping we can do without making idiots of ourselves. Jayson will be home this weekend for spring break too, so he's been enlisted whether he likes it or not!

We also have a scheduled surgery tomorrow for Jordan. He tore the cartlage in his shoulder during football season and injured it even more at the state wrestling tournament so off to the hospital he goes! Jayson actually had the same surgery during his senior year, so we know what to expect. It won't be a walk in the park, that's for sure. It's a pretty painful surgery and the nurse even told me today to expect a pretty sore kid. Jordan has talked Cecy into entertaining him all next week with videos and such, "just like she did with Jayson". He won't admit it, but I think he's starting to get a little nervous! Poor kid! He tries so hard to be the tough guy.

On top of all that, Jay and I are taking off Monday thru Wednesday for our 25th anniversary. We had been planning for years to go on a Hawaiian cruise for our 25th, and then we had an unexpected surprise that depleated our funds for the trip. More about that later! Anyway, we decided to just take a couple of days and go down to Little America in Salt Lake, the hotel we stayed at for our honeymoon. I'm just looking forward to having some deeply needed one on one time with Jay. Doesn't matter where, just as long as we can have time to be together without all the normal distractions. It's hard for me to believe it's really been 25 years, though! Man, oh man! Where did all that time go?! I still feel like I should be a newlywed, or at the very least, a young mom. Here I am, closer to 50 than I like to admit, with two adult children. In fact, Cecy is the same age I was when I had Jayson~ eekkkk! But through all the ups and downs of our 25 years together, I can't begin to imagine my life without Jay. He's the best!!!!! Sometimes I don't feel like I deserve his goodness.