Motivation or The Lack There Of

It is the 7th day of the New Year. 7th day of a new decade and well honestly I have had no motivation what so ever to do anything. I hate to admit it but it is true. I tried thinking about all the fresh new starts/projects I could be doing but that made me feel very overwhelmed. Don't know why but they just did. I even tried getting motivation from my fellow bloggers but was not interested.

Today was the first day that Oldest and Littliest both are back at school. Today is the first day all three of my men have been out of the house. The Hubster went back to work on Monday after a two month hiatus from work due to his sleep apnea. Truth be told I was use to him being around. I was use to my kids being off of school for two weeks. I use to not being alone.

After dropping Littliest off at school this morning I decided to make a trip to HobLob in hopes of finding something to make a Valentine wreath with. Yes, Santa is still on the front door. I said I have been unmotivated ya'll. Anyways, not much in the way of Valentines inspiration as of yet. I continued down the isles and what did I find but three isles of 66% off !! I suddenly remembered what fun it is to alone! I spent an entire hour sifting thru it all. The last isle was like 80% off and look what I found!

Three frames for my one day wall of frames between the kitchen and the dining room. The black colored one I stumbled upon first and at just $6 I said sure since it was a differ shape from ones I already had. Then the the best part of it all were the bottom two frames. They were get this just $1!!!! Can you believe it!! I dug thru every frame there to make sure I had the only $1 ones there were and I do believe I did.

Not only did a trip to HobLob make me realize that it is good to be alone but it also motivated me! HobLob saved the day!

I came home and was having some soup for lunch because it is well really cold outside. I was browsing blogland and stopped over at Shanty2Chic and saw their post on redoing their bathroom mirrors. I have been wanting to do this as well and have seen these kits but never saw them actually up. I do believe my reward for finishing up the great holiday take down will be a trip to Home Depot. I almost ran right down there but stopped myself and said I needed to accomplish something.
I went to the Home Depot site to see pricing on the faux frames and came across this mirror. I LOVE this mirror for above our fireplace. I DON'T love the $179 price tag though. Then it dawned on me why I loved this mirror.

It is very similar to the one that was tucked away in our master closet. I had the idea to use it above the fireplace but for whatever just placed it in the closet after we moved in. It actually goes to my dresser but we took it off because we needed a spot for the tv.

I think it will work. Let me tell ya it was NOT easy getting it up there. It weighs a TON and I figured The Hubster would come home after getting calls from the kids school and find me knocked out on the living room floor with a mirror on top of me. I was determined though. No wait I was motivated! I was thinking of painting it white but The Hubster would have a fit I know. So now the plan is to faux fireplace. Should not take long to do at all but I must again finish the great holiday take down first.

I am now in the process of shopping the house to see if I have any pretties that I like for on the fireplace mantel. So far not finding much but I am sure I will find something somewhere.

Hope that ya'll are having a wonderful New Year and New Decade thus far and that you have NOT felt as unmotivated as me. If you have no big deal! Just get out there and make your self do something you usually love and I promise you feel soo much better!

Happy New Year!

I am still here and well now it is a New Year! Whatever it was I had kicked my butt and lasted up till a few days after Christmas. Not fun at all! I am now feverishly trying to catch up on orders before I get a few nasty grams while also trying to get the house back in order.

Since my last post we celebrated Christmas with the Nana & the Papa who drove in from good ol Ga. A nice time was had by all as always. Oldest and Littliest are still opening up toys. Santa was good to them this year and I cherished every minute of it. Not sure how many years of Santa we have left. Oldest was becoming a doubter but after we took the Polar Express to the North Pole he is all about Santa though has his doubts about Rudolph and the Easter Bunny. While he was having a conversation about such with em and the Nana I just burst out laughing. It really is quite amusing to picture a huge rabbit hoping down the sidewalk delivering baskets. Even the Nana was tickled. We could see where the doubt was.

After Christmas we celebrated number 4 for Littliest! I can not believe my baby is 4 already! Time is just flying by and I want to bottle it up so I can keep it forever. When I look at him I still see my baby but when I look at pics I see such a big boy. I just pray I will always remember the times I have with my babies.

New Years Eve was nice and quiet. We actually sat in the back yard with the fire pit going and enjoyed every body else's fireworks. Worked out nicely with no clean up! I was amazed the boys lasted till after midnight! It was The Hubsters and mine 14th New Years Eve together! I thought 15 but must have been too tired to calculate right last night. We have come a long way in the last ten years and geez can only imagine what the next ten years will hold. I will have an almost 16 yr old and a 14 yr old and hopefully will still have some sanity left.

Well hope the holidays treated ya'll well! I will be back to normal posts soon after I get caught up on orders and get the pretties put away.

Getting there...

I am still hanging in there. Yesterday we actually made it out for a few errands. A few too many but isn't that how it always is. I am still very tired and now I have a red sunburn like rash. Joy. Not much to ramble about really so I will leave ya'll with what I think is a pretty cool pic from our Polar Express adventure a few weekends ago. It looks as if the snow globe is glowing as it rounds the tracks!