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I spray painted my kitchen knobs again, this time to a lighter silver color, no one else can see a difference but I doooo. I'm thinking about changing out the backsplash, maybe, a white subway tile?

I managed to snag a matching pair of nightstands at the Habitat Restore this past weekend. I am working on repainting them right now and finding some new hardware for them. I first came across them last week but they were marked $25 a piece but this past weekend they were lowered to $15 a piece. Whoot!

 The foyer, it is coming along, slowly. The new light is installed, the walls and ceiling have been painted the final grey color (although I have two spots left to finish patching and touchup work to do.) The banister has been stained and poly-ed with a nice glossy blackish color. All of the stair woodwork has been primed, the baseboards along the stairs are finished in the white semi-gloss. One window has been primed, one window has not. It is so much brighter in the foyer with the lighter wall color and woodwork.

 Some photos of Makenna, one at the Japan house.

Wellllllll

1. I haven't posted since February and I'm not ashamed of it.

2. As you can guess finals came and went, we are done with our semester! Woohoo, only three more to go before I am finished!

3. The foyer. It is still not finished. Let me show you how much motivation I have -->        . Hardly any, none, zippo. It will look great when it is done, I'm just overwhelmed by it right now.

4. I've been enjoying my summer thus far. Last week we took a staycation, vacation in Champaign. Went to the Spurlock museum in town, went to a wedding, doctors appointments, caught up with some friends, bbq-ed with some Grandparents, visited Prairie Farms, did some shopping, went to the pool, did some yard work, ate out a lot and more stuff I can't remember.

5. We have five kittens residing in the backyard. They are skittish around people yet, hopefully I can socialize them a bit and then catch them so they can go to the Humane Society to be adopted.

6. I am nearly finished shopping for Makenna's back to school uniform wardrobe. I think all I have left to get is some new socks, new pair of shoes and another cardigan. Lands end had a promotion of 25% off clearance and overstock items on Tuesday with free shipping, so we managed to get a bunch of polos. Then they had a 25% off non sale items with free shipping yesterday, so I ordered her pants and jumpers to round out her uniform. Supposedly their uniforms are the bomb diggity when it comes to quality, so they should hold up nicely.

7. Last night I made flautas for dinner via my Chevy's Mexican restaurant cookbook from the Goodwill, best. five. dollars. spent. ever....

8. I think Makenna starts swim classes again this weekend..or next weekend?