it's the not so little things...

I am blessed, truly I am. I have a husband who can make my children's and my dreams become realities. We really take for granted how talented he is and capable. The kids had requested a TV on our kitchen, I seconded the motion because I was tired of the kids eating in the toy room and making a crumbly mess. I am really tired of yelling at Jon to finish eating breakfast because he still has to brush his teeth and I can see the bus coming. All of this could be eliminated if we could have a TV complete with cable in our kitchen. Let me preface this by saying that I am not a big TV person. I'm not. If it weren't for our blessed DVR I would never watch TV because I undoubtedly will not be in front of the TV when a show I enjoy is on. Now I can record them, but even so I only watch a couple of shows so even if I had no TV I would survive (I would miss my Joel terribly though). What we have is a large TV in the "TV room" -this is Ryan's entertainment space that he has wanted for eons. We have my old Zenith that my parents bought for me when I graduated college in the kids "Toy room" so that Ryan and I wouldn't be subjected to Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon when a Colts game was on. A TV in the kids room isn't a necessity, but the damn thing won't die and I'm not a fan of throwing a perfectly good albeit beast of a TV away. When my mom passed she left us with her adorable 15" flat screen that she had in her room. It's a cute little deal and has been stowed away in the storage area for later use - the plan was to hang it in the kitchen. All we had to do was get an overpriced mount for the wall and Ryan would work his voodoo - handy man magic and get cable into this part of the house.

Putting the TV in the kitchen was one of those projects that was suppose to get done over the holidays since Ryan took some time off. Being a man of his word, the TV is up and running. Of course there were a few obstacles, like the fact that mom's TV wouldn't fit our new mount or any mount for that matter because it has a permanently attached base that can be attached to a wall, but wouldn't swivel - which is what I needed for the kitchen so I can be inspired by the Food Network or like last nights episode of the Kardashians while making chex mix. What to do, what to do?

So Sunday I hit a mothering wall - after two weeks solid of the kids with no break except for one coffee date with a dear friend for 2 hours, I needed out, in a big way. So I looked at my husband with those eyes and said nothing - this is what he translated my look into - " You want me to call Andrea (our neighbor home from college) to watch the kids so you and I can go to the store and buy a TV for the kitchen right?" This is one of the benefits of sharing a brain when you are married, we can have full conversations without saying anything. He was absolutely correct - he just missed the part where I needed to go to Pier One and buy some faux lemons for my hurricane in the kitchen, but we've only been married 10 years - we'll get there.

So we called and she came and we left and we bought and we came home and I was refreshed. Fortunately for us the stores were still having great deals on TV's. So we brought home a darling little 19" TV for our kitchen and Ryan got the whole thing up and running in less time than it took to go out and buy it. I am spoiled, very, very spoiled to be married to such a handy fella. Needless to say the kids are in love and I have much more company than I did before in the kitchen - which is A-Okay with me. Here are my little darlings getting ready for breakfast this morning (Drew is absent because he was the only one with school and had already been picked up).

Exploring with Dora in the morning

Who's one of the cutest bed head kids around?

Penny really enjoying her adventure with Dora - accompanied by her beloved "lamby" and sitting on "soft" her blanky. It only gets better with a sippy of 2%.

My sincere hope is that this spring I can paint this wretched kitchen and it will be the color of Cumin (see small square painted on wall next to TV and remote) with white trim - we shall see. If I can't renovate, maybe I can at least put a little makeup on the lady and make her presentable. As a side note, my daughter is sitting next to me saying "I so pretty, I so pretty" perhaps I compliment her too much? Ah - I didn't think so! Thanks!