Yesterday, we decided to ignore the fact that it was 37 degrees outside and pretend that it was a nice spring day. We took the kids on a little outing to the pet store (they seriously think it is as cool as the zoo) and out to lunch. Then we came home and built some new shelves for our food storage room. We had been putting this project off for a long time because it has been too cold to work in the garage. It was still too cold yesterday, but we got over it. Home improvement projects make me happy . . . especially when they only cost $70 and take four hours from start to finish. Sometimes I worry about the makeup of our food storage – lots of Hamburger Helper, Campbell’s soup, Betty Crocker cookie mixes, and a year’s supply of fruit roll-ups. We have our token cans of wheat and powdered milk, but certainly not the amounts listed on the Provident Living page of the church’s website. Mostly I’m just happy that we won’t starve and now we have enough shelves to fit everything.
The kids were just as anxious to pretend it was spring. They played in the back yard for hours, in spite of the cold weather. Abby even joined them for most of the time. They kept coming in to get gloves or a hat or warmer socks, but they had lots of fun playing outside. This winter has seemed really long and everyone at this house is ready for it to be over.
5 comments:
That's some quality food storage. I think a years supply of fruit rollups is necessary!
Wow all your snow is melted! ? that's awesome.
I think I jinxed myself. I woke up to 2 inches of new snow ... and it is still snowing. :(
I love the food storage and the shelves look great! I also love home improvement projects, too bad my husband doesn't feel the same.
Way to jinx everyone with the snow.
Ha! I told you your very well organized and your house is always clean(toys spread out don't count)! Your food storage looks great and very well organized.
Claudy, the trick is to only take pictures when it is clean. You should have seen that room Saturday morning BEFORE we built the extra shelves. You couldn't even see the floor because there were bags of food waiting to be put away. I should have taken before and after pictures - you would never call me organized again. :)
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