Taryn Turns 3!

 Happy Birthday, Taryn!!

Let's celebrate with chocolate chip/cocoa pancakes with bacon.

Taryn, you have a unique gift of sliding into people's laps.  In one minute, no Taryn; all the sudden there's a Taryn cosy-ing up and making herself at home. 

It cracks me up when you come down in the morning with a huge smile on your face and announce "It's Me!" and then go to the art-table for a snack.

 

 

I love how you sing with reckless abandon.  Your ability to jump two octaves without breaking a sweat astounds me.  Mommy can testify how I fell down laughing hearing you sing 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight' in high C (I still laugh whenever I think of it). 

You are a little girl full of empathy and concern for others.  You have a sensitive soul and a kind heart.  Your smile is disarming and charming and can melt the hardest of hearts. 

 

You are a funny girl.  Not only are you very clever, you have also mastered the art of dead-pan.  I remember asking you one evening if you were a cow.  You looked at me from the couch, said 'No' and went on with what you were doing.  Oh, I laughed.

 

Taryn, we love you.  You will always be our wee-lass from the Home Land. 

Office and Dining Room Makeover

 The COVID shut-in is lasting longer than anticipated (says everyone everywhere).  For us, it meant converting our guestroom/office to an office (with a guestroom).  

The card-table just wasn't doing it for us as a long-term solution...

...and the bed was taking over a lot of space.  

So, let's take out the bed, paint the room and rearrange our office space.

Instead of blah-white, we chose a green-ish teal and repainted the ceiling (which was also blah-white).

We are really pleased with our new digs.  Working there will be much more pleasant.  Phase 2 is building and installing a Murphy-bed.  Stay tuned...

Since we were on a painting role, we decided to finish the dining room.  It took a few sample pots to get it right be we really like how it turned out.