So, I think Mark might be starting to get worried. What with me wanting to redecorate the kids' rooms and now lately I have really been craving pears! Whenever I see ripe ones at the grocery store i buy some and just on Saturday i bought a big bag of them from Costco. Since then I've already eaten six or seven of them. At least if I were to be pregnant it would be a boy. With Nathan I had serious cravings for peaches and mangoes. With Brooke and Katey all I wanted was chocolate and ice cream, and with Katey even the idea of lettuce sounded disgusting to me (no wonder I put on so much weight!) I must admit, though, if I were to be pregnant I would have no one to blame but myself. You see, I sort of told Heavenly Father that if He wanted me to get pregnant He had a 0.1% chance of it happening and I knew if He really wanted it to happen He could use that (I have an IUD which is supposed to be 99.9% effective). I'm pretty sure that I'm not, it's just funny that I'd want to decorate and eat tons of fruit at the same time. To be fair, though, I have been trying to eat more fresh fruit since I started losing weight, it's just that pears are my latest kick.
So, this year I have been put in charge of my ward's book club. Tonight is our first meeting of the year and I already feel like a slacker because I didn't read the book. It was "Go Forward with Faith" by Sheri Dew, which I hear is really good, albeit very long. Unfortunately, the book is out of print so I couldn't find it at a bookstore and the library didn't have it, and since it's long nobody else finished it in time for me to borrow their copy. Oh well.
I want to build things--I feel like George Bailey, but on a much smaller scale. I want to build a bunk bed for the girls. I've seen these really cool castle bunk beds on line and I think it would be really neat to build maybe a simplified version of those. Plus, I want to install a trophy shelf in the kids' bedrooms. I also want to build some bookcases and a window seat in our front room. Do you think those are enough projects, or should I try to come up with some more? Right now all I'm doing is pricing material and making grand plans in my mind (and a couple of sketches), but not actually doing anything about it. I did buy 4 yards of some really cute princess fabric though that I want to make quilts out of for the girls. It is bright pink and has six princesses on it. I have been on the lookout for bedding that has princesses that include Ariel (she is currently Brooke's favorite) but it just doesn't seem to exist, so I'll make some. The fabric is coming from Malaysia and has Jasmine, Snow White, Aurora, Cinderella, Belle, and Ariel. I'm pretty excited about it. Let's see if I can keep up with everything else in my life while trying to make projects with wood and fabric. EE Gads! :)