In a couple of weeks Rich and I will be celebrating our anniversary.  In a way it seems like we just got married but at the same time it feels like we’ve always been married.  In reality we will be celebrating 9 years of marriage.  I have no idea what kind of gifts we are “supposed” to give for our 9 year anniversary.  But I am thinking about getting a watch for Rich for his gift.  I bought him one a few years ago for Christmas but he didn’t like it.  So now I need to try again!

So I was checking out some Casio watches at BlueDial today.  There are tons of choices to look through- and I know I can find something that Rich would love.  I think a watch would make a perfect anniversary gift- it’s something that Rich would have for a long time.

We’ve also talked about taking a little trip to celebrate- some time away together would be wonderful too.  So I’m not really sure what we’ll end up doing.  The last couple of months have been a bit stressful with our move so I think doing something special together would be really nice.

What do you do to celebrate your anniversary?

Our letter this week is the letter T and so we made a Train.

Here’s what you’ll need: construction paper, glue, marker, eyes, scissors.

Cut out the train tracks and some shapes for the train.

Glue the tracks onto the paper in the shape of a T.

Add a train on the tracks.

The completed T is for Train.  (You’ll notice our train has eyes- Hailey asked to add eyes to the train and when I told her that trains don’t have eyes she said, “Thomas does.”  So we added eyes.)

So we still haven’t moved into our new house.  Our contract says we will close on or about June 1st.  We were told we would be able to do it sooner- around May 20th.  Well, guess what- it’s June 29th and we are still not in our new house.  Thankfully my parents have been wonderful and we have been staying with them for almost 2 months.  It’s so frustrating and the hold up can be entirely blamed on our mortgage broker.  I know of 2 others who are using him and are also frustrated with his services.  By now we could have rented our own construction equipment, like a 6×6 bucket truck and built our own house.  Oh well, we’re being told  (AGAIN) that we will be closing this week.   We’ll see.

I was doing some more thinking about where to find ideas for things to do and I keep coming back to the Internet.  There are so many resources out there.  If you are looking for perforated metal stainless you can find that online.  If you want ideas for a vacation or you’re trying to figure out where you can get your groceries for the best price you can get that online.  For the most part I do searches about activities to do with Hailey and lately I’ve been researching going to Disney World.  How about you- what do you use the Internet for?

I get a lot of comments and emails with people telling me how wonderful all of my ideas are and how creative I am.  But in reality I just use a lot of different resources.  I get magazines with craft ideas, I look through craft books at the library and I find tons of ideas on the Internet.  I usually try to remember to link to wherever I find the idea to make sure the right person gets credit.  Some of the ideas are my own too and I get inspiration by looking at other websites.  If you’re stuck for ideas search the Internet- you can find anything out there.  You can ever find Nashville Mobile Offices for construction trailers if that’s what you’re looking for.