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My life has been all about random this week. There has been a lot going on, and nothing going on, all at the same time. Ever feel like that?

1. Miss Kate has been pretty sick for the last four days, and so most of my time has been spent taking care of her, and doing all the accompanying laundry. I think we're up to 8 loads? She is finally starting to feel better, and I'm so glad. Poor thing--it's so hard to watch little ones being so sick.

2. We are starting major construction tomorrow. We decided to finish part of our basement, and make it a large family room with a storage area. Rick has drawn out the plans we decided on, and will be starting to frame tomorrow. I am also turning the current playroom (upstairs) into the nursery. All before the end of June. I know I should feel overwhelmed, but I don't. Yet. I will post pics as we go along.

Originally I was going to keep things how they were, and turn the guest room into the nursery, but several things changed my mind.

*The guest room is directly above the front door and open entry--along with lots of noise and foot traffic passing by. The playroom is at the very end of the hall, and I could just picture my other kids running by 50 times a day.

*The playroom, soon to be nursery is directly across from our room. Perfect.

*I really wanted to have a guest/craft/sewing room. It's just nice to have the extra space if you can swing it!

3. I finally decided on nursery colors. I'm going to paint the walls (hopefully this next week!) a chocolate brown, and the bedding will be in blues and browns--with maybe a touch of orange or red thrown in for accent. I love a bedding set from Target...now it just needs to go on sale!

4. Emma is on her way to being a runway star...the makeup similarities are striking, don't you think? If not that, a makeup artist for sure. This was self-applied. At 6 am.

5. After years (at least it seems that long) of not losing any teeth, Ryan has lost 4 over the past few weeks. The tooth fairy is back in business!

6. We had a small blessing befall us this week. We refinanced our house last month, and somehow instead of the usual one month delay in paying the new mortgage, we have two! That will be a great boost to our basement fund!

7. We are now seriously on the hunt for a new (to us) vehicle that will fit our soon-to-be whole family. We have looked at many different options, but I think we have decided on the Suburban or Yukon XL. These are the only two SUVs that we have found that not only have enough seats, but also have the cargo space we are looking for. There are others that I really like (love the Toyota Sequoia), but the lack of adequate cargo space has been a major issue. I will be so sad to let go of our Odyssey though--we have loved it, and it has been a really great vehicle. Plus, now I have to learn to drive something even bigger! I was driving a car up until three years ago! Driving lessons might be in order.

8. I am feeling really big all of a sudden. I'm not sure what I'm measuring right now, but I can tell you, it's a whole lot. And no, no pics at this time. :)