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This family needs our prayers tonight so please take a moment to lift them up.

I found Kelly a while ago via the Nester’s blog and since then have formed one of the greatest and funnest (is that a word) relationships with her!  She does all the graphic work for The Parker Reese Foundation and when I tell you this girl rocks it’s really an understatement.  Kelly isn’t the typical graphics designer.  She truly goes above and beyond for us when we need her and seriously can read my mind!  There’s nothing this girl can’t do and we are so blessed and grateful that she was brought into our lives. 

Kelly has taken the time and schooled herself on CDH and our foundation.  It’s what makes her stand out from all the rest!  She sent me an email last month and said she wanted to designate July for The Parker Reese Foundation.  She is helping us bring awareness to a birth defect that has stolen so many of our children whether survivors or not.  So hop on over to Purple Lemon Designs and buy yourself something really cool and personal and Kelly will donate 10% of the profits to us!  How awesome is that??? 

We love you, Kelly, from the bottom of our hearts!  Thank you for what you do for us and for so many families whose lives are forever changed by three little letters… CDH.  You so rock girl and we cannot wait until the day we get to meet you face to face!

I wish our sweet angel was with you today to help celebrate and make this day perfect.  I know that you will feel her presence today as you do every day.  Know that we are both so proud of you and that I couldn’t ask for a better daddy than you for our children.  You are amazing, Ashley and we love you!

Happy Father’s Day!!!!

Her funeral is Monday at 3 pm in Elizabeth City, NC.  Ashley and I will make our way their Sunday night.  We have attended only one other funeral of an infant and that was Seth.  I don’t know how we’ll make it through the next few days but I do know that this mom and dad need us to be strong and we’ll do just that.  Please keep them in your prayers as they prepare to bury their child and learn to live a life without her. 

I am so angry that CDH has taken another life.  That CDH has robbed another family of their child.  Of all the memories, laughs and smiles.  It’s why we do what we do.  It’s not a hobby but a promise we made to our daughter three years ago and a promise we make to every family who is diagnosed with CDH. 

Please keep the family in your prayers.  If you’d like more information on the services please visit Twiford Funeral Home.

The office just needs some cleaning and organizing and it’s done.  The bathroom done.  The kitchen a few updates like a new floor, new curtains, blinds, and a new backsplash.  That room will have to wait.  You know for a small house we sure do a lot of reno projects!  I truly thought when we purchased this home 3 years ago that we’d stay here for 5 years and then build our dream house.  The economy has us rethinking our plan.  We LOVE our home.  We can’t imagine selling it or renting it.  We are thinking about moving our home to our land and adding a master suite, bigger kitchen and a huge living room.  We could do it cheaper than purchasing a new home and we get to keep the home that helped us start our lives over when Parker died.  This home truly was and is our saving grace. 

So the point of this post is our master bedroom.  It’s not luxurious.  It’s not romantic.  It’s blah.  I love our furniture.  I love our bedding.  I hate the arrangement which we are going to fix this weekend.  I am not crazy about the color because it’s really not a color.  I’d love a soft lavendar or a blue but not sure how that would work in the room. 

Our furniture  is a distressed whitewash finish.   I want a bedroom that speaks volumes about who we are and that we can escape to at the end of what always seems to be a long night.   My first move is to take down our ceiling fan (ouch) and put in a chandelier.   I love my ceiling fan and it breaks my heart to take it out but I think a chandelier would be more fitting in our room.  I found three I love but of the three one I refuse to pay $999.99 for and of course it’s my favorite.  Isn’t that how it always works?

$149.00

$999.99

I’m going to rely on my gal over at The Lettered Cottage  to help make this process easier.  Layla is a genius when it comes to decorating.  Well, the master bedroom needs a major cleaning so I better get to it.

My mom and younger sister were in town for 5 days and we hated seeing them go home.  I’ve tried a million times to get them to move here but it’s not working.  Maybe a baby would do the trick….  A baby is great bribery!  We’ve talked about having another baby but we want to wait until next year.  I’m losing weight and I’d like all of the depression weight to be gone before we try again.  And we’d like to take some more time to enjoy each other.  Who knows what’s in the cards for us.  We don’t call the shots so we’ll wait and see what God has in store for us. 

I’m going to start working on the laundry room/sun room this weekend.   While my mom was here we got it cleaned out and so all I need to do is start painting.  I have a vision of what I want put I also have three humongous dog kennels that I have no idea what to do with in there.  It makes decorating difficult and challenging.   Until we build our fence we have no where to put the girls.  I refuse to leave them outside in their outdoor kennels and I they are too big to bring inside at night and plus they stink.   Like a dog plus 3. 

This is my dream room.  I could see myself sitting in this room reading a book or sleeping or blogging.  The room has so much potential but again the dogs.  It also stores our washing machine and dryer but those are easy fixes.   I have my eye on a new set but I seriously doubt there is any type of negotiating, bargaining, begging, pleading with Ashley that would get me these until ours absolutely break down and don’t function anymore.  Although I could make that happen…..

I could easily decorate around this gorgeous piece of furniture!  I’m trying to get motivated to get the room done but to be quite honest I’m so sick of painting.  We are still painting at Parker’s House and it gets old.  Really old.  Really fast.  Once I’m done with the laundry room I’ll be done painting in our house except for a few minor touch ups in our bedroom which is our next project.   I’m going to do some clean up in the flower beds this weekend too.  Ashley’s best friend owns a landscaping business and he’s hooking me up with some bushes.  I need to rearrange the flowers I currently have and I’m going to buy some more.  I need some color but I like flowers that are low maintenance.  I’m not a green thumb.  More like a black thumb.  I’m all about the curb appeal though.  I think it makes even the smallest and coziest of homes (like ours) stand out among the rest. 

Well, it’s late and I’m rambling so I better hit the sack.  I have a busy weekend as my niece has her last soccer tournament in Wilmington this weekend and then we have a new family moving in to Parker’s House.  Hope everyone has a great weekend!