Ikea...lol

So I'm starting to not hate my house as much...lol yes I really did just say that. I go back and forth all the time on hating it, and being ok with it. And I just decided that there's really no point in hating it, because at this moment it's not going to change anything. Tim and I are really wanting to get a new house..but we aren't wanting to rush it. I'm good at jumping on the first house I see..and that's not the way I want things to be. We are also still putting money away for a down payment...something we didn't do the first time around, and are for sure doing this time. I know there are a lot of good deals and great houses out there, we just really need to take our time finding the right one.

Mikhail and Makenna are really starting to like thier room. That helps me feel better about the house. I want them to love thier room. They are pretty spoiled for being three and four. They have a tv, video games, a computer, a fish tank, a couch, a toy box, book shelf, and thier closet is full of dress up clothes..and it all fits nicely in there..They have room to play [thanks to the bunk beds] Makenna's been painting a lot. She loves being an 'artist' I love that she is actaully painting pictures rather than just mixing all her paint into a brown blob. I've been hanging her art work up in her room so that she's proud of it. I bought some stickers at Micheals today..they came with letter stickers and picture stickers..and I let the kids put the picture ones on the wall beside thier bed, and then we spelled thier names with the letters and we had enough letters to put the alphabet at the head of each of thier beds. So every night before we go to bed we are going to point and say the alphabet together. I also hang a lot of thier pictures on the wall beside thier bed. I want them to feel like it's their space and I want them to like it! I want to print some pictures from when we just went to the beach and put them up there. Makenna got a Christmas card from her cousins and it was a picture of them and she hung it up there...it reminds me of a teenager. But it's cute and I want her to see cute things when she's laying in bed so she feels good about her space. She can't wait till the next house when she can share a room with Mady. I can't either! I already know that it's going to be a pale purple..and I know the beds I want to get them from Ikea. I want to put the princess netting over their beds when Mady gets old enough to do that. I want to have a little white round table in there for them to have tea parties at, and a little toy box for thier toys, I want to have doll furniture, and a book shelf for them, I want to get thier picture taken in tutu princess outfits and I want to put it up on thier wall and have thier names on the wall..I just already have it all pictured and I can't wait to put it all together! I know the boys room is going to be bold colors. I don't want to do a specific theme, just have all thier faveorite things in there. They both love trucks and cars and yes, Max already knows how to shoot Mikhail's pretend guns, so I want them to be able to have army stuff in there. They need a boys pad :) I also want to have a play room for them at our next house, and they want it to be like Itsy Bitsy World that used to be a polaris and is now at tuttle. So I'm going to have to go in there and take some notes. I want it to be a room where they can really use thier imagination. Ikea has little computer desk for kids and I want to atleast have two in their play room. I also want a table for them to do thier homework at and to be creative at. I know Ikea is going to be the most awesome store for our next house!

But enough of the next house..we are still in this house. Tim did promise he'd give me some money to go to Ikea and get some stuff for this house. I really want a new dinning room table, and I want to get some closet organizers to help with all the clothes we having laying around everywhere. I also want some new dishes and serving trays, and we need new glasses too.. I have no idea where all ours went..I think we broke a lot of them on accident lol.

Well everyone on fb is talking about cabin fever..and I'm refusing to let myself get it. I'm not going to wish for warmer weather yet, because there's no point..wishing it won't make it get here faster :/ Although today we were all sitting around here bored and I thought it would be nice to put the twins in the waggon and go for a walk. That will be nice when we are able to do that again. I want to start getting back out and doing all the fun stuff we love to do. Feels like we haven't really done anything in a while. The week before vaca was spent getting ready for it..then the week of vaca, and then the week after was spent with holidays and recouping from both the vaca and the holidays. I'm ready to get back into the swing of going out and having adventures! On my list is for sure AHA and COSI. I really wanted to go to the Ohio Historical Society during the week this week..Tim's sister and brother in law got us a membership for Christmas, and I really wanted to take the kids. But it's only open on Sat. now because of the budget cuts :( That's sad! It will be nice once the weather warms up to be able to go to the parks and stuff. I want to take the kids to some new places too.

Well I don't really think this blog has anything important in it. Pretty much Tim is playing video games and I want to watch a show and he keeps saying just one more..so I just started typing. This is how we spend all the nights after the kids go to bed..too tired to do anything so I sit on the comp and he plays video games. I read the kids two chapters of The BFG..and it puts them right to bed...in a good way :) but it makes me tired tooo! I almost always want to go to bed after reading it to them. I'm so happy that they like it, and listen to it. Mikhail goes around the house making up words like the BFG..and I tell them to imagine what the things look like that they talk about in the book. After we read the whole book, I want them to draw a picture for thier room..and then we are going to start Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!