Gonna get my Steal on!

As you well know, we've been living at my parent's house for the last week and a half. Kitchen comes next week, but I think we'll (at least the kids) will remain camping out at Grandma and Grandpa's for a little while yet.

Brooke asked how long we are going to stay at Grandma's and when I told her, "Only a few more days, sweets!" she got a really sad look on her face and asked, "How am I going to play with the ponies then?"....as if she would never see them again.

Since we've been here for so long, I took up my camera and roamed the house in search of a few things that I want to steal from my parent's house (shhh...don't tell them)

NUMBER 1:

I don't know why I love these bronze deer so much.

 But I do.

I have coveted them since a small child. As a child I would prance them around the living room making neighing noises (What? Deer don't neigh? Don't tell that to 8 year old me!)

They are slightly tarnished, slightly neglected (I think they were stuck wedged between the wall and the couch for awhile) and slightly AWESOME!!

NUMBER 2:

Yes...a globe. This globe was the "destiny of chance". You close your eyes, give it a spin and slam your pointer finger into it's side and promise to live there some day.

If I remember correctly...I should be living in the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and a small island off the coast of Hawaii.

Number 3:

This piano sounds AWFUL!!! 

I'm not kidding....the thing hasn't been tuned for 5,000 years. My neices and nephews will bang on it and within 5 minutes you'll have a headache and start yelling, "Close the lid. I don't care if you slam tiny fingers...CLOSE THE LID!"

But I LOVE IT!

One day, this piano is coming to my house and then it will be tuned. We've been talking about taking it for 3 years and yet, here it sits collecting junk. This piano means a lot to me since it was a huge part of my morning routine all through school. I'll share that routine with you another time...it was a doozy (beginning in calmness and escalating to stress and a freak out session...every. day)

NUMBER 4:

My Opa made this table and we have used it with love ever since. 

I love the colour.

 I love the size 

& I just love it!

Put it in my backpack and bring it to my house. YES PLEASE!

I DON'T KNOW IF I'LL BE TAKING THESE THOUGH:

These are the dolls I talked about in the last post. These dolls are cute, sweet and creepy all at the same time. One time, while I was drifting off to sleep, one fell off the shelf and tried to hug my face.

I didn't sleep for a week.

Part of me wants to give it to Brooke but I'm afraid it will scare the living daylights out of her. My mom had an old doll that used to sit in the corner of her room with her eyes half open did to me....It would just watch you and send you scary eye messages. Sometimes I would shove it some place so she could stop glaring into my soul!

Memories thrive when I'm at my parent's house. 

Every time I look in their room I remember the rambo death matches we would have for control of the bed and the remote for the TV in there. 

OR

Sitting in the chairs downstairs and passing a ball back a forth to Matt for probably an hour, trying to get the world record for consecutive caught passes until one of us would get bored at whip it at the other person's head. 

OR

Playing hide-and-go-seek in the dark in the basement and freaking the living daylights out of each other.

OR

Rollerblading in the garage and choreographing skate dances and "new" moves while wearing knee pads so we could slide across the concrete. We knew thought we were so cool!

It's been great being here, but I'm getting to the point of wanting to be home and get this reno done and live again. But the kids have loved the one-on-one time with grandma and grandpa and I've enjoyed a few more minutes hours of sleep in the morning. (The joys of built in babysitters!)

Anyway, we are incredibly blessed to have such great family who love us enough to put up with us for weeks at a time! Thanks Mom & Dad!

Love,

Kat