Fight like a girl

a wonderful new song I discovered on my way home for a semi-successful restoration hardware sale.



Little girl alone on the playground
Tired of gettin' teased and gettin' pushed around
Wishin' she was invisible
To them

She ran home cryin'
"Why do they hate me?"
And Mama wiped the tears and said
"Baby, you're brave and you're beautiful.

So, hold your head high.
Don't ever let 'em define
The light in your eyes.
Love yourself, give them Hell.
You can take on this world.
You just stand and be strong
And then fight Like a girl."

At 31 she was wheelin' and dealin'
Kept on hittin' that same glass ceilin'
She was never gonna be one of the boys, no
She coulda gave up on her ambition
And spent the rest of her life just wishin'
Instead she listened to her mama's voice sayin'

"Hold your head high.
Don't ever let 'em define
The light in your eyes.
Love yourself, give them Hell.
You can take on this world.
You just stand and be strong
And then fight Like a girl."

Oh, with style and grace
Kick ass and take names
Ten years of climbin' that ladder
Oh, but money and power don't matter
When the doctor said "the cancer spread"
She holds on tight to her husband and babies
And says "this is just another test God gave me.
And I know just how to handle this"

I'll hold my head high
I'll never let this define
The light in my eyes
Love myself, give it
Hell I'll take on this world
If I stand and be strong
No, I'll never give up
I will conquer with love And I'll fight Like a girl

a lazy puppy and a Silver anniversary

With the nice weather we've been having lately we decided to go for a walk and take the pup, especially since we've given her the nickname tubs, short for tubby. Check out that video at the end. She's done this since the first time we walked her, truth be told she hates walks and runs when we get out the leash.

After such a nice walk we had some yummy ribs and homemade pasta salad

Then the next weekend it was on to the party at the Currie's. Their silver. Somehow we managed not to get a pic of the couple, but we did manage one of us

And the Zank's, the one with the great kitchen remodel from awhile back

Kmart deals

I haven't done this in awhile but I just couldn't resist as it was such a great deal. Kmart is having super doubles, ie they're doubling coupons up to $2. All of what you see below was $10! Yes even those premier rubbermaid containers, all 4 of them.

and here are my two babies this evening and just about every evening they look exactly like this.

a lazy weekend, with some work of course

It's been a rather slow weekend, with my being on call and all, but we did manage to get a few things done. The weather on Saturday was beatiful, mid 70's, and we spent a great part of the day just lounging out in the back yard in our new chairs. We purchased a stand for the umbrella I got on clearance at Pottery Barn last year and it's up and providing plenty of shade! We are still planning on making it out to another restoration hardware sale to look for the ottomans that match our chairs because we just love them so much.

The one project we tackled this weekend was a small one in the garage. We purchased more of the ELFA system and got to work fixing up this corner which houses the garden tools we use most often. They were just resting on the floor and fell over so often that it was a huge pain. I forgot to get a before of them in their precarious state but I'm sure you can imagine.

While we had the cars out we threw out a few things from recent projects that we weren't sure we could part with at the time. Not that wire shelving though, I'm still considering rearranging the office closet when we are expecting.

Here's the amazing after. The handles are just pushed into the holders and the ladder is hung on a special bracket secured in the stud. Dominic is really getting the hang of that cordless drill if I do say so myself. We have more for the long wall over by where Dominic parks but that will have to wait another day, by this point we earned a bit of relaxation.

For the record, I despise that Hitachi box in front of the door but we don't have any other safe place for the compound miter saw and with the new set up it's easily pushed over by the tools when we need the access to the back yard.

Easter celebration

Our morning began with breakfast, homemade elephant ears and bacon and eggs.Easter basket time

and of course egg decorating, I love the rainbow one, it was Dominic's technique but my doing.

That happened spontaneously after just putting the egg into the purple

Last week my wonderful husband got my lilies and I spead them all around the house, like I did with my previous bouquet...aren't they just gorgeous?

A failed batch of chocolate chip cookies, talking on the phone and baking don't mix well

During our trip to Walnut Creek to visit the container store I found my dress for Cindy's upcoming wedding...white house black market and $100. The bonus is that a small baby bump would fit nicely if it needed to. (sorry about the wet hair, I didn't want to try it on before the shower when I was gross from outdoor chores

We did a bit of work in the back yard, check it out

and pup enjoyed playing in the freshly mowed yard

Easter gifts

Thanks mom

quilts for a small human

All pieces and pictures from this flickr group