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It’s nearly 12:30 in the am, and I should be sleeping but instead I’m browsing Pinterest looking for ideas for cupcakes for New Beginnings on Thursday night and wondering what kind of yummy food I can scrounge up in my kitchen. I usually don’t eat late at night, but if I’m up on Pinterest I am uncharacteristically munchie. Ravenously hungry, even.  I have to make 3 dozen cupcakes for Thursday evening, and I’m trying to decide if I should go fancy or just do something normal. And I’m sure I’ll just do something easy because I still have to put together a booth for our Values Carnival. I’m always glad when these big events in YW are over for the year.

This morning I was unusually tired and lacking in energy on my walk. It was colder than it has been, so maybe that had something to do with it. But I continued to feel weak and tired the rest of the day, kind of like I feel when I’m fasting, except I wasn’t fasting. Maybe I’m just 30 weeks pregnant and feeling it on my 3 mile walk. I’m not going to stop, though, but I probably won’t go tomorrow since I’m up so late tonight. After my walk this morning, I finished the little bit of sanding that was left on the bench and then picked Easton up from school. After getting the boys fed and happy I started the priming on the bench. That probably took about an hour and then I had to let it dry for an hour before I could paint. So I laid on the couch between priming and painting, feeling loved by my little Teagan who climbed up on my lap and said, “Can we snuggle, Mom?” My guys sure love to snuggle, and I’m never opposed to it. I’ll take it as often as I can get it. I finished the first coat of paint by 4pm and then started on some chicken parmesean for dinner. It was really yummy tonight. After Jacob got home, we ate dinner, and then I got the boys into the bath before we headed out to watch Jacob play church basketball. They really enjoy going to the basketball games so that they can run around like animals with the other children that like to go for the very same thing. Jacob’s team won tonight by 4 points. It was a close game, and my hubs did a lot of the scoring the first half. He’s such a cute little basketball player. But I tell you, those games get heated. Jacob doesn’t always like to play because the men can get so upset and way too into the game, but he really likes to play basketball so he goes anyway. He just doesn’t care if they win or lose. At least I’ve never seen him care either way.

We got home from the game at 8:30, so it was bedtime for the boys. After our nightly routine of prayers, scriptures, story, and songs I got some stuff done before heading back into the garage to finish the final coat on the bench. Legs are done, bench top is done, and tomorrow I will finish the sides of the bench. We are having company for dinner and I was hoping to have the bench done, but I don’t know that it will be dry enough by then for us to sit on. Plus, I still want to do a poly coat to seal it and keep the paint from getting stained. I am the mother of only boys, after all. This is been a fun project since today. The sanding was just a daunting task that I was sure would never end. Now I know why so many people want to skip the sanding, but the table had such a bad paint job that sanding could not be skipped on this project. After priming and painting today, I want to find more things that I can prime and paint. But not sand. I don’t even want to think about doing my cupboards. That’s next on my list for renovations. Somebody else needs to come sand them for me.

Tomorrow we are having our friends, the Brox family, over for dinner. They had a baby recently, and I haven’t gotten the chance to go meet her yet, so I’m happy that they are coming over. I should go to storytime at 10:30 am, but I just don’t think I’ll feel like it. I’ve been doing a lot with my boys lately, and I realize that I don’t have activities for every day of the week. Too many playdates and sotrytimes and park days in one week are just overwhelming and unnecessary. Plus I need to get everything done for New Beginnings. I don’t know what I’m going to do for this booth. I wish it would just make itself, like I wish for so many other things in life.