What I’ve been up to and an update on the kitchen cabinets

Hello Friends!  It’s been a while since I’ve posted.  The Marriage Monday posts have been missing for two Mondays now and the Blooming Blogger post wasn’t posted either.  So what gives?   This is a long post, I”m warning you now, feel free to take a nap about halfway through. Well first off, I have

My Kitchen Failure and Rustoleum Cabinet Transformations

UPDATE:   Rustoleum refunded me my money for the kit and I sanded down the areas that were peeling off, primed and painted over the peeled areas as well as all the top cabinets that were already painted with Rustoleum again with the Ace Cabinet, Trim & Door Paint.  The lower cabinets I primed and then

Another week has come and gone so quickly!  I can’t believe it’s Friday again so soon!  My children are done with school in two short weeks and I haven’t made any more progress on my kitchen cabinets.  Fingers crossed that next week I knock those puppies out, bam they will be done and you will

My Greek Yogurt Experiment

If you happen to follow The Blooming Hydrangea on facebook you know that I was trying to be all healthy so I went  out and purchased some plain Greek Yogurt.  I proceeded to put some honey on it and tried a big ol’ spoonful.  Ummm….it was pretty gross, like eating a big ol’ spoonful of

Marriage Monday: Date Nights

Alright, it’s Marriage Monday again and time for another weekly helping of a marriage focus topic.  This week we are talking about date night, taking time away from “ordinary life” and setting it aside to spend time with the person who matters most in your world (or at least should matter most anyway!!).  Here’s today’s

Happy Mother’s Day to my beautiful Blooming lady!

Hello blogland!  Just Alex here sneaking a quick post on my beautiful wife’s blog page to wish her a wonderful Mother’s Day!  She is such a wonderful mother, I am blessed to have her along side me raising our kids together!  Darling – you do such a tremendous job day in and day out with

Happy Friday Morning friends!  It’s been a busy week around here (I’m starting to think that’s every week) but the weekend is coming and I’m excited to get some stuff done in the backyard and also hopefully in the kitchen.  Sunday is also Mother’s Day and I always love getting home made cards from my

Random Thursday (play set update)

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This week has been quite busy with random things like my MOPS craft/spa night, hubby joined the church softball league so he has games every Tues. evening and we attended Awanas awards night was last night.  The school year is coming to a close and activities are finishing up.  Soon we will be on our

The Kitchen Project Begins

This past weekend I started the process of transforming the cabinets with the Rustoleum Cabinet Transformations Kit.  Saturday I removed all the upper cabinet doors, removed the hinges and door knobs, filled the holes where the knobs currently were on the door, scraped off the rubber thing that keeps the door from hitting the frame

Marriage Monday: The Five Love Languages (cont.)

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Last week we shared our first Marriage Monday post.    We included a link for the Five Love Languages quiz, if you didn’t get a chance to take the quiz, head over there and do it!  Just a quick recap for those of you that haven’t read the book yet, the five love languages are listed