I was up all night.  I wasn’t feeling all that hot around 10:30pm and it was a down hill slide from there.  I went to bed around 1:00am only to be woken up by Molly (the dog) at 2:30am for a potty visit.  After that I couldn’t get back to sleep and the sound of Denny breathing was just making it worse… that deep breathing he does sometimes… like gale force winds ripping across the bed. lol  So I got up, and got crackin’.  I finished one of the two layouts I need for my Design Team application with thescrapbookstand.com, I’d love to show it here, but I can’t, at least not till after the winners are announced, then I think I can show it.  So you lucky people get to see the pigeon.  By the way, did I mention it is a trained homing pigeon??

In an effort to distract me for the large bird that’s taken up shop at my house, I’d like to present the blog challenge for today.  What makes me smile?  That’s the question I’m supposed to address today.  That’s hard to narrow down really.  A lot of things make me smile.  The most obvious answer would be me kids.  Not true on all days, but the vast majority of them find me smiling at something pertaining to them.  Beyond the obvious, Michelle usually gets me laughing, or we get each other laughing.  I’m not sure who starts it most of the time, but it’s always funny.  My husband makes me smile/laugh.  He does some of the most ridiculous things and has gotten himself in some real predicaments that I can only smile and shake my head at.  Most of those things end up with him being stuck someplace… stuck in the basement, stuck in the crawl, stuck in the attic, stuck in a floor vent.  Leads me to think Denny has a self-image problem.  One that makes him think he is a little person maybe.  All those things make me smile.  That is a pretty good list after the night I’ve had, way to go me.

It is supposed to be hot today, with a high of 87 degrees.  I’m sensing an air conditioning day.  I’m not a big fan of hot.  I try to stick in the lower part of the house and work on things there as its cooler, and if the windows are open I leave the attic fan on most of the day.  I LOVE that attic fan.  Really, I love it.  All houses should have them in my opinion.  It brings a real nice breeze up through the hallway.   We’ll see how long I can stick it out, the heat I mean before I break down and turn it on.

I hope to get my second layout done for the DT contest today.  Dylan spent the night at my parents house so it will be just Shelby and I so we’ll see how it goes.  Wish me luck.

Ok I’m off to start my day and do my hair before I take Ethan to school.  I can’t go like this, I may scare some poor innocent child!  Yikes is all I can say.

~j