First Communion Season

Margaret, our beautiful second grader, will be making her First Holy Communion in May! My mother made a First Communion dress for our oldest Lucy last year, and Margaret will be wearing it this time around.



If you have a First Communicant in your life, for First Communion gifts, I recommend Aquinas and More, of course, because they have a good selection and my husband owns it!

Room Transformations III: Girls' Bedroom

Our next Project is cleaning up the former Master Bedroom to make it into the new Girls' Room!

This is what it looks like right now because we put everything from the former "Back Room" into it to paint the other rooms. Once we empty this room, we'll paint it "Olive Grove" on the bottom and "Budding Green" on top, with a "White Light" chair rail between.

This is where the girls live now. You can see that it's a little tight for four of them, and soon Maria will be joining them, so they need a bit more space.
This room will become the new "Back Room," but it won't have a bed in it. It'll be a play room for the kids. We plan on removing the carpet and installing Pergo or some type of hard floor so they can build things with Lego or blocks, and have a place to roll their trucks besides the kitchen when I am making dinner. We hope to line the walls with book cases and cabinets so everything can be put away out of sight and still be found when needed. I'll post pictures in the years to come as we accomplish these things.

Room Transformations II: Master Bedroom

Next, we changed the boys' old room into the Master Bedroom.

This is what it looked like when Andrew & Peter occupied it.

Ian painted it in one day ("Spring Fawn").

We moved in that evening.

Room Transformations I: Boys' Room

We're in the process of painting most of the rooms in the house and moving bedrooms around to make more room for our 5 girls.

First, we emptied the room we called the "Back Room." It had a guest bed in it, plus toys that only the older kids could play with (small or fragile parts, etc.), all my sewing stuff, and whatever else didn't have a home. It could be a mess sometimes. I don't have any pictures of it with all the stuff in it, thank goodness.

Then Ian painted the top "Cloudless Sky" blue and the bottom "Olive Grove" green.


Andrew helped Daddy put up the trim after I painted it "White Light."

Everyone likes this room! It looks great, Ian & Andrew! Andrew and Peter moved in as soon as the paint was dry.

Common Cents

Andrew (6), counting the money in his piggy bank: "Mommy, I don't have much cents at all."

He's got Math down pretty well. Next subject: Grammar!