My hands, they were strong.

It's a little after one so it's just about my bedtime. Guess I'll say my peace for the day.

And I have none. :)

Good things happening around my house:

1. I bought two Trofast toy storage systems yesterday. They originated at ikea and some lovely couple bought them, took them home, assembled them with 5,723 screw thingees and an allen wrench the size of pencil lead. Sometime after that and before yesterday they decided they didn't want them anymore. Enter craigslist. And me, the craigslist junkie (though my stalking is for furniture and not pets....like it is for *some people*). I saw them, sensed a steal, and pounced.

I went to pick them up in an area I didn't know existed in Maryland. Spent about forty seven hours trying to load them into the van (yay the sto-n-go saved me, boo the sto-n-go hates me...nearly thought I'd have to leave a kid behind). Got them home and into the house. Those suckers are heavy. And the moving muscles were left to me, Ms. Zero Upper Body Strength, and Adisson, a 40 pound 8 year old. Thought for sure the things were going to be sitting in the driveway when Adam got home. But alas we got them in. And started the long, gross process of cleaning them. I won't badmouth the people who assembled this furniture because assembling crap from ikea is more frustrating than trying to catch floating poop in a bathwater (uhhh, that also happened to me yesterday), but I'll nicely say that these items were *ahem* less than clean.

Got them cleaned and disinfected. Today, we drug them into the school room and started dumping crap into the tubs. I told the boys that if we got the school room reorganized, I'd let them get their old Little People out from under the stairs (like, 25 year old Little People toys, not elderly residents of our creepy storage area). We cleaned a little but it's not done and I realized I have no desire to dig those storage tubs out of the closet, so I'm making them wait for Adam to get them...and they aren't happy.

2. I'm growing peas! So I started my earthbox this year and I'm growing peas and baby carrots (or like midget carrots or something). It's been going along well and in the past few days I've noticed pea pods on the vines! I can now grow humans and peas!! They aren't ready yet and the carrots won't be ready for another month or so, but it's working!

We started our pumpkins last weekend. We're already a month behind on getting them into the ground, so I'm not sure how well this is going to work out for us this year, but I'll try anything. I told the boys we could grow the Great Pumpkin so darn it if I'm not going to give it a shot.

That's about all. Got lots of cleaning to do tomorrow before my husband returns home. Not sure what he's going to say about having to eat my cooking now instead of having a real chef cook for him for the last few weeks (ohhh, Army life is clearly hard work), but I'm also not sure it matters. :) I'm sure he'll be gone on another mission soon.

In the meantime, it's nearly 2:00 and that's my bedtime. Unfortunately, that's about four hours after Adam's bedtime so I'm going to have a fun time changing that now that he's coming home. Old men sure do like to get to bed early.