Not a very Maniac Monday

I usually hate Mondays but today has been low key and pretty nice.  I may be writing this too early since we're quickly approaching the witching hours, you know, dinner time, clean-up time, bed time. 

Our productive Sunday evening probably helped out my uneventful Monday.  I spent the afternoon after church organizing and cleaning up my side of the garage.  I'm pretty excited about how much I got done.  Now if we could just get rid of the garbage/yard sale pile, it's the only thing stopping us from parking in there.  Before we went to bed, Jason and I went through and cleaned up the house, except for the kids' rooms, I'll tackle those tomorrow.  Waking up to an empty sink, a clean house, and most of the laundry done was a great way to start today.  Too bad the refrigerator is empty...

The kids keep asking me to peel oranges for them, we don't have oranges in the house very often and I had forgotten how much I love the smell of a freshly peeled orange.  Now that they actually eat them, I'll have to keep buying them.


I spent sometime crafting up a Valentine's banner for the front room today and any time I get out my scissors and sewing machine, Sophie wants a project too.  Lucky for me she's got the art of tracing and cutting down pat so she was pretty independent in her creating.  Here's the results...

We're apparently at the stage now where asking for a smile gets a face like this...

 

They spent all day wearing their batman capes.  They were so cute acting things out that I didn't have the heart to say anything as they held hands and ran around the house or jumped off furniture.  My favorite part was when Carson kept yelling at Sophie that he had put the Joker in jail.  She had no idea what he was saying and he was so mad about it!

I hope the rest of the evening is as nice as today was...Wish me luck.