Big Brother!

Last week my brother, Jason, and his family came to visit for a day as they get ready to move to a new state! J is in the army and has been for awhile so seeing him, my sister-in-law and my nephew is always a special treat :) I was SO excited to have them come that I was up until 2AM the morning they came in. But, it was totally worth it.

The best part was surprising my mom (talk about an easy birthday/Mother's day gift!) haha. My mom had no idea they were coming. As far as she knew, our friends were coming to visit. She screamed when she saw them! It was pretty fun!

It was REALLY awesome and such a blessing to be able to spend some time with my brother, SIL, and nephew. :D I wish it could happen more often, but I'll take what I can get!

You Would Have Thought Someone Had Died

I "deactivated" my Twitter and Facebook accounts the yesterday and the amount of text messages I got from people regarding that was surprising. I appreciate your concern, but I totally got a kick out of how serious everyone thought this was. Granted, I am kinda of attached to the FB so I get why this was a shock and I can understand why I was flooded with text messages like this: "No FB?? Are you ok? What's going on?", "Hey, I just saw you're not on FB, did something happen?", "Do you need to talk? Why aren't you on Facebook anymore?"

So here are the reasons I am sharing:
1) Do you know how much time I waste on that?
2) I was tired of hearing people complain about their lives.
3) Some posts just made me really sad.
4) Some posts made me think I'm not where I should be or that I'm missing out on things.


So what have I done since I deactivated my facebook account?
Well - I have...

• Vacuumed... a lot
• Decided I'm going to build a bay window seat
• Decided I'm going to build an entry way table
• Decided I'm going to make ruffly curtains for the craft room
• Organized the office

• Reorganized the linen closet
• Moved and reorganized the bookshelf

• Reorganized the craft room
• Dishes
• Unsubscribed to a bunch of junk e-mail (that I still seem to be getting)
• Laundry
• Played with the puppy
• Cleaned the bunnies' room - although it's now no longer theirs
• Went to Costco
• Hung out with my in-laws 
• Balanced the pool chemicals
• Gardened... I GARDENED!
• Took the puppy on walks 
• Bathed the puppy
• Painted the craft room

and still had time to slack off, browse Pinterest and watch way too much 7th Heaven.