Besides having a visit from Josh's parents and brother this weekend, my mother also was here Friday night and into Saturday for a project weekend! We painted Jesse's room and built him new bunk beds from a kit.
The room has one blue wall (which I was smart enough to do last weekend since I knew it had to be dry before we did the next color) and 3 tan walls. I got home early on Friday and we replaced the light over the kitchen table and got 2 coats on all 3 walls before enjoying shabbos dinner with the Rosenbaum clan.
The bunk beds were quite a project! I was up earlier than my mom (surprising!) and had Timothy help me drag 4 of the 5 boxes it came in in from the garage. I say drag because we couldn't really carry them so just lifted them into the house and onto a blanket and then dragged them across the floor into the game room. There I found that each box contained... a box. The 2nd box contained all the pieces and hardware. It took me over an hour to get everything unpacked, and by the end I was a tired sweaty mess! It didn't help that we've had quite a humid weekend.
The last box was so heavy that I couldn't actually lift it at all, so once my mom was up we unpacked it in the garage and carried everything in in pieces.
Once I had all the hardware laid out and labeled on a big piece of cardboard, it was almost 8:30am and we were ready to start! Four and a half short hours later, we were ready for the unveiling.
You can find pictures of the room here:
gallery.me.com/lessardr#100374
Jesse LOVES it and has thanked me a billion times, including first thing this morning when his head was less than an inch from mine as I opened my eyes. He and Jocelyn had a sleepover in there last night, but of course Jesse got the top bunk.
Mom went home after a nice shabbos lunch with the Rosenbaums and then I had to take a bath for about 90 minutes because once I was in, I couldn't get out - I'm so sore! It didn't help that Friday afternoon was our Department outing and we bowled and then did laser tag and bumper cars. I have to believe that unloading the boxes was the hardest part, because the alternative is to admit that my 61-year-old mother is in much better shape than I am, and I really don't want to cop to that.
Today Josh and his parents and his brothers are at an event at the University of Hartford, which means this morning Josh and I went to Men's Warehouse to buy him a suit. When we got there, it was "buy one get one for $100" so I got one for Timothy just based on his pants size. I told the guy that he's a 33x32 so he gave me a 34x32 just in case (both suits were hemmed before we were even done checking out!) and thank goodness because they are none too big. Luckily the jacket is and the jacket and pants were separates so we can a) let these pants out up to 3 more inches at the waist and 6 at the hem, and b) then buy the next size pants in the same color assuming the jacket still fits. Not bad! Of course, Josh's suit was somewhat more expensive, and once we had rather overpriced shirts, ties, belts, and shoes, well, we pretty much needed another mortgage. But I got to say ta-ta to 2 very nice looking fellas this afternoon! And Timothy says maybe he'll wear it for his 8th grade dance in the spring. There's a picture of him in the suit in the link above.
Starting tomorrow Jesse will get to stay at school for an extra hour each day to have lunch with a smaller group of friends. He is VERY excited.
Jocelyn informed me that she got sent to the "thinking chair" twice this week for forgetting the rules about no talking to your friends. I asked how long she had to stay, and she told me that you have to take ten deep breaths and then think about your community and what it means to be part of a community. Well isn't that just something that I'm not sure how I feel about. I suppose it's better than hitting her with a ruler. Josh has some choice words for the entire process, but I don't think I need to share those :).
Morgan is loving school. He especially likes the fitness room still and so he's been getting to go there twice a day as the reward for doing his work. That's way better than the "one M&M per minute for not hitting anyone" approach we had to take a few years back!
Well I have to go get these kids some leftovers for dinner. Hope everyone had a good weekend!
Rhonda
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