Get to Work!!

The kitchen is finally taking shape! It's a slow process, but it's moving along nicely. Getting a kitchen renovation done with 4 kids could be a whole season of one of those DIY shows. We have have all the existing cabinets that we are keeping almost done - they need one more coat of varnish. We got all the doors this week - and they are BEAUTIFUL. We gave them their first coat of varnish last night and they look so cool!! Can't wait to get them up. I still have no doors on any of my cabinets - little bit "ghetto" in my kitchen to say the least. We have the counter top ordered and should be in sometime in the next couple weeks. We think we have a new sink picked out but are still debating. We like the black ones and think we will go with it since our counters are going to be really dark.
I got a bunch of work from the textbook company this week so I am super excited about that. That money will go straight into the tuition fund for preschool next year.
Potty training has gone amazingly well. Gabriella just cracks me up. She has changed quite a bit after the potty training - I feel like the tantrums we were having have pretty much stopped altogether - (thank YOU!!!) She hasn't had an accident in days and seems to go all by herself without me asking if she needs to go. SO COOL. And you don't dare help her - she wants her "privacy" and I quote, "I do it myself - get out mom". So there you have it - 3 potty trained kids, 1 to go!
We made a little trip to Manhattan this week - so much fun. We left Monday night to stay with the Payne's - they were so nice to let us crash in their basement. Then spent the day with Callie and the boys (and baby Taylor) on Tuesday. Kids had a blast and snoozed the whole way home on Tuesday afternoon. What a great break to the week. Austin is off school today and Monday for Easter so it's been nice to sleep in and be lazy in the mornings. I hope the rain stops soon and it will be nice for Easter, but it isn't looking like it's going to be so nice. We'll see...
Hope you are havin' the time of your life!
ST
ps - Happy Easter!!