Vibrant Artwear

I got new jewels yesterday.

Vibrant Artwear is a great place to go for nice-looking costume jewelry. It's this bright blue and pink building on the corner of Market and 4th. You have to walk farther than the cute part of Market street.

The clothes there are cheap, they have some vintage stuff. I was not that interested in their clothes. However, the whole upstairs is a display of cheap necklaces, bracelets and earrings. The necklaces and bracelets are $2 each, and most of the earrings were under $1. Even though it's that cheap, there was some really cute stuff there.

All the jewelry is organized by color. So it's the perfect place to go if you need to find something that matches a particular outfit. I bought 3 necklaces: black, orange, and pink. Then I got dangle earrings to match each of them. They were just a sing bead on a hook pin.

Accessorizing is fun!

The Gift

I had a dream just before I woke up that I was still enjoying the gift of singleness.

My friends and I were all working our pioneer assignment. We all lived in a van reminiscent of the mystery-mobile on Scooby Doo. I had no responsibilities except to preach. Best of all, it was a time in my life when I could go all day without someone entering my personal space, and no one ever touched my body except for the occasional hand-shake or hug.

I woke up to Filip wanting to nurse and hold me. Then, he got in my face asking me to feed him.
"Mommy, eat eggs, mommy, eat eggs, EAT EGGS!"

That was a nice dream.

Hatchlings

Welcome baby birdies! Their eyes are not even opened yet.

Our New Neighbors

Robin's nest right near our back door. Kim pointed it out to me.

Cookie Fail

I had to make cookies this morning for the people working at Crownsville. My first batch turned out perfect.
I smoked out the house, because I used a pizza pan with holes punched in it for my 2nd batch. The cookie batter dripped through the holes and started burning on the floor of the oven. Thankfully, the smoke taste did not make it into the cookies.
I decided to put the oven on the clean setting for 3 hours before I bake the rest of the batches. I had left the cookies to cool on top of the stove. Now, when I tasted the cookies, they absorbed the 'oven cleaning' smell. Hopefully, I have enough cookie batter left to fill my 40 cookie quota.

Speaking of minor domestic crisis', I put Filip in the tub to take a bath. While he was bathing, I was washing out the light bulb globe that belongs to the ceiling light. He grabbed the globe while I was not looking. When I looked down, he was playing with shards of glass in the water. It must of broke under water. He didn't get cut thankfully.

Fun Day

Today we took Filip to the John Deere store for a tractor pull. They canceled it, but you could still walk around and see all the antique tractors on display.

Then, Lystra had 3 free tickets to Port Discovery in Baltimore that she couldn't use. So we went down there. Port Discovery is a museum for kids. It had alot of fun stuff to do. They had a pretend grocery store, where kids could go 'shopping' and then ring themselves up.

In the picture, is Filip 'driving' the VW beetle they had there. It was parked next to a pretend gas pump and air pump. So the kids could pump gas, and fill up the tires.

They had an animal show while we were there. So Filip got to see a snake, bearded dragon, gecko, tarantula, another kind of lizard, and this huge turtle.

The picture where he's in the balls was a little room for the 4 and under crowd. Once we made it there, I just kind of stayed in that room, because I was tired of walking around, and he was entertaining himself.

It was a pretty good museum. Big kids would get a kick out of the 'urban treehouse'. It was this habitrail type thing that was 3 stories high. They also had a bunch of creative stations where kids could decorate hats, or tiles and other stuff.

Rearranging

I balanced out our bedrooms these past couple of days. I'm working on creating space for a new baby.

Before, I did not store anything in my bedroom, because I wanted it to look as spacious as possible. We stored all our clothes in Filip's room. They were stored in bins which I kept on 4 tall shelving units all along his walls. For a year, we got used to it just being this storage room with toys in it.

Instead of displaying the bins on a bunch of shelves, I decided to have them tucked in the closets and other places between the two rooms. I also moved two shelf units to my room, where I now keep the little TV, media, and jewelry and most of our clothes.

So now, instead of having my room as a bed-shrine, and Filip's room a storage room for everything, we have a bedroom and a playroom.

Filip's room now has a table that covers most of my Herbalife stock. The rest of it is stored out of reach. He also has his playard that he plays in alot. My room now has a TV, so we can watch movies in bed without dragging the laptop in. Now, all we need is space for the new baby's stuff...