WELCOME To Our American HOME, Master Bedroom Clean-Up and Company Almost Here

When we were so much younger and could walk 3 miles under 45 minutes! Our youth would have come in so handy this past week-end if it could have only been.

So glad you've stopped by! Mother's Day has come and gone and I hope you had a very pleasant day even if you're not a Mom. My Husband, Daughter, Lil Miss and myself entertained company. I did have a wonderful day with my own Mom and Dad driving in from Marion, Kansas bringing Angel Food Cake with Strawberries for dessert. My Son, Daughter-In-Law, "Baby P" from Saint Louis and Tatyana from the country Belarus visited us for the week-end. I had a very, very , very good time!!!

My little camera is just about worn out from so much use this past year. I didn't get all of the pictures I intended to take, but I am thankful I got what I did. Some pictures completely washed out or there were lines in the picture. This was disappointing since I have never been so close to Buffalo. The zoom lense would have turned out some awesome PRAIRIE PICTURES...We stopped to view BUFFALO outside of Alma, Kansas. We were able to walk up to the fence where they were lying down. I'll have to see if Ryna will email me some pictures of them. Tatyana's country does not have Buffalo. Even though Kansas has them...it was a thrill to see them up so close. Powerful creatures.

When we were taking Family pics, my son didn't want the flash on when taking pictures of the Baby and I did my best to honor this. When the flash is turned off and I'm using natural lighting...many times the pictures turn out blurry.

Preparing for Company Wrap:

My Honey asked me what I wanted for Mother's Day and I told him HELP!!! cleaning the Master Bedroom. He BLESSED me with this request. Friday, my husband took a day off from work so we could completely clean the Master Bedroom, the upstairs Hallway and the Diningroom. You see...you could not walk through the room.

ALL THAT STUFF and MORE. NOT BRAVE ENOUGH TO SHOW YOU A BEFORE PIC...this probably would have completely broke the camera and caused you to go OH MY GOSH!!! LOOK HOW SOME PEOPLE LIVE. I think I'm in shock.

We worked and worked and worked and worked...please keep in mind during this time we were baby sitting 3 year old Lil Miss. She sat on our bed playing with my childhood Barbie Dolls, Midge and Scooter until her 'Naptime'. The old case that holds the dolls is filled with miniature Barbie doll clothes that she was able to dress the dolls in and pretend, pretend, pretend. This worked pretty well until nap.

When 4 o'clock came...we sighed...the bedroom was finished!!!!!! There were white roses and a candy bouquet on the night stand. A gift bag sat on the pencil desk. I lit a scented candle, sprayed febreeze on the curtain panels and put some Russian music on to play so that when Tatyana arrived hopefully she'd feel very welcomed in our American Home. I had made up the bed with freshly washed and dried 800 Thread Count Egyptian light blue cotton sheets. I switched out the red comforter with all the decorative pillows and went with a pastel colored floral print comforter with lots of fluff. Folded at the foot of the bed was a soft green and off white quilt. Matching decorative pillows were placed on top of the standard size pillows for sleeping comfort. My daughter took the red bedding and revamped her bed with it. I used one of my old comforters that wasn't being used. Recycled again! Doing my part for being GREEN...old, old comforters that just wrap around you like they know ya.

I WAS BEYOND RELIEVED when we looked at the room. A heavy sigh AHHHHHHHHHHH. We did it. We did it. Hubby moved onto clearing the hallway and I cleared the Diningroom table. By night time my body ached sooooo much. We worked like a couple of 25 year olds...but our bodies know the difference...ohhhhh do they ever.

A month or so ago I knew company was coming...with life going the way it was going...the bedroom was not ready to receive guest. We had been cleaning out the spare room and using the master bedroom as a staging station...the Master Bedroom was a disaster...so we had stuff all over in the Master Bedroom and upstairs Hallway. The Diningroom table was also a catchall. There seems to be a tendancy here to use this table for more than just eating at. When I return home from shopping or from a thrifty sale...the table holds the items til I put them elsewhere.

Early in the day 13 geraniums were planted for pots on the porch and the lawn was groomed. The Utility Room and Powder Room were tidied. Parlour checked over and the make-shift Kitchen cleaned as best as it could be. When Daughter got home from work...she tidied the Family Room and attacked her upstairs Apartment and Bathroom.

Last week was a busy one and I'm looking forward to a slower pace this week and actually getting the laundry caught up. It seems that with tending to other details the laundry piled up...but that's alright...I know full well that I can't do it all these days and I have to plan well in advance when company is coming. Even though you may know that you need to be working on cleaning long before they come, you may be working right up to the last minute...YES??? I don't like doing this, but sometimes that is the way it goes around HomeHaven. This go round my back aches even today and I am stiff in my muscles. This week I will hopefully give my legs and back a rest.

I didn't get all the Spring cleaning completed before our company came, but was celebrating in my spirit that the Master Bedroom took shape and I was not embarassed to allow Tatyana to sleep in this room. It actually looked like a bedroom by 4 PM and Guest would be arriving around 11.

I had my hair cut last Thursday and the beautician did a nice job, but by evening the Kansas winds had blown my hair out of shape. You can't tell it now that the beautician had it looking tamed! Today I look like a wild woman and that's no joke. Forgive me...I have to relearn how to style this bushy hair...some products just don't work with my hair texture and it SHOWS!!!! Please don't laugh too hard at me...Over the week-end I was so busy that I didn't have time to stlye it...it looks a fright in the pictures. Late Saturday Night I put my hair in a pony tail and my daughter said NOOOOO NOOOOOO NOOOOO! You look like a porcupine. Haha. NOT GOOD. Down came the hair and out came the bushy and windblown hair. A typical BAD HAIR DAY. Pictures later?

The trials.

On Thursday as I walked away from my hair appointment...I said I needed a MIRACLE getting the house ready...I got my miracle in that department....now for this hair. Life is for learning huh.

God bless and may you have a pleasant week.

Luv ya,

~Deanna from the windy Prairies and my hair looks like it~

PS So young and so in love. It helps!