Shane’s making garlic mashed potatoes and Chloe’s making an apple pie with Andrew. Our thanksgiving tradition.

Chloe had to ice her ankle and elevate it but she still managed to bake! For the rest of the day, she was ensconced in the green couch with a book and rested.

My mother-in-law came early and she got roped into helping out with the pie. I think she felt bad watching how slowly (and unsteady) Andrew was peeling the apples…

Sadly we are saying goodbye to our lovely fireplace because there’s an issue with the chimney’s foundation and we have to take it down… I’m very sad to see this mantle go too. Stay tuned for a new facelift in the living room.

I’ve been working on upgrading our dining room since last November and it’s coming along nicely. After installing this gorgeous dark floral wallpaper from Ellie Cashman which I’m absolutely still in love with, I purchased a new Sanger chandelier from Aerin and got new set of chairs from One Kings Lane which was a lot of work to put together.

After those purchases, I had to save money somewhere so I made the drapery by learning from youtube tutorials on how to make French-pleat drapery. It was not an easy task and nowhere perfect but I’m happy with how they turned out. 🙂
More updates to come…

We set up a tent in the backyard and watched a movie tonight.

I was on my computer in the study, and out of the blue, kids came with uncontrollable giggles and laughter and started singing “take on me”. It was quiet the performance.

My handy man finished fixing the shed and now it’s time for us to prime and paint.

My thoughtful daughter put a piece of paper towel so she doesn’t splatter paint on my hair. 🙂

She says this is how I look when I paint.

She looks like she painted for hours… in reality she painted for an hour and I finish priming and painting most of it. By myself. Ahem.

Chloe invited her friends to come and help with painting the shed.
It was a great idea!!!
For about an hour.
All of them left to go have lunch inside then never came back. I found myself painting all by myself.

It was just me and these ducks outside… sigh.

@ 10pm we are eating ice cream at DQ.

and this is how we got there. 7 kids & me!

Chloe’s busy making a virgin sangria for her friends this morning.

She’s putting white peach, blueberry, orange, lime juice, white grape juice, topped with frozen kiwi ice cubes.

And I made food to go with it.