Am I the only one who has a pile of about 15 gift cards? Some of them have only a couple dollars on them and others still their full amount. I honestly don't know how I've accumulated so many gift cards. I try to keep track of what I have and use them when I can, but seriously, I probably have a pile two inches thick in my walled of gift cards.
Not only are they taking up space but they're like wasted money. I'm like most normal people from the 21st century and I love getting gift cards, but not using them is like throwing money down the toilet. I'm sure the wonderful people who have given me these gift cards (don't worry, it wasn't any of you!) would not like to know that I still have them. That's why we've decided that one of our goals is to use as many of our gift cards as possible. We're trying to be intentional about using them. So, on Saturday we went out to dinner with Brad's mom. We picked a restaurant that we had a gift card for and even though she was treating we insisted on first using the gift card.
Phew! One down, 408 million to go.
Now I'm looking forward to doing some shopping. :)
Yesterday's activity was to finish a project. I know we all have unfinished projects to do around the house. Or maybe it's a project that hasn't even been started, but you've been meaning to do for forever. We have a pretty big list of projects like that. So, we decided that each weekend in the month of October we were going to each complete a project. Brad and I have totally different lists of projects to do so we thought it only fair that we each do one.
My project was to cut out cardboard letters for Micah. I've been wanting to do a craft with Micah with the letters from his name for a while now, but I've been too lazy to cut them out. So, I pulled out a box from the basement (saved just for this purpose) and finally cut out the letters. While I was at it I cut a few rectangular pieces that I'm going to use to make tactile cards for Judah. Even though that's not technically one of my projects I'm hoping to finish it this week.
Brad's project was to finish our linen closet. He's still working on that.
When I was pregnant with Micah (yes, you read that right, Micah), we knew we needed some more storage space. We had previously been keeping our sheets and towels and extra toiletries in the "guest room." With the impending arrival of our firstborn we would no longer be able to do that--we now needed room for cute little baby clothes. So, Brad asked his dad to help him build a linen closet. And I loved him even more.
It's been great having somewhere to keep all of our linens. Seriously, you never knew you could be so happy about a closet. But Brad's dad left him with two steps left to finish the closet: 1)Spackle and 2)Paint.
Doesn't seem hard, right? Brad tells me it isn't. Well, my firstborn is going to be two this month and Brad had yet to spackle or paint. But yesterday he spackled. And as I type he is upstairs painting. He tells me it's going to need another coat...or something. I'm not sure how long it will be until that actually happens, but at least after tonight when people see our closet they won't ask us if we just put it in.
Progress, people. Progress!
It all started on December 28, 2007. And every day it gets better and better.
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