You know your house is messy when...

...the implement you get spanked with is decided by what your husband can get to! Okay, okay, that makes it sound worse than it is. Although it is kind of messy. Sort of. Maybe very. What happened is that I agreed to participate in my friend A's yard sale this coming Saturday. Now that's not a bad thing - it's actually a very, very good thing. It means I'm getting rid of a bunch of clutter and maybe even making a little bit of money. But for now it also means that I have loads of shoes and purses for the sale piled up on the chest at the foot of our bed. The chest with all the paddles in it. And yes, there's some stuff piled up downstairs too, which is why last night Nick ran out of patience with my excuses and decided to just spank me for the mess and get me motivated to get it priced and out the door to at least the garage. But when we finally got some time alone, and he went to reach for a paddle, he found them all, well, out of reach.

So he reached instead for his new leather mechanic's belt. A mechanic's belt does not have a traditional buckle, which can scratch the paint on a car when the mechanic is leaned over the hood. Instead it has two metal prongs that pop into the holes in the belt where a buckle would normally fasten. What this meant for me was that he was able to fasten the prongs so that the belt was held folded completely in half. Normally the belt is one of my favorite implements, but last night it really, really hurt! I lost count of the licks, but I think it was somewhere around 50. Maybe it was because I only had my panties for protection, or maybe it was because I wasn't expecting a spanking right then, but it really had me struggling to stay put. I have to say though, I needed it very much, and it was a relief to get it done.

Let's see, what else? Oh, we got our new phones and they are the best phones E-VAH! Okay, they're not iphones, which we really wanted, but they really are terrific, and we're both really pleased with them.

Oh, Nick and I have started doing a nightly devotional together, which has been wonderful, and I'm so very proud of him for doing it with me. We're reading our way through the Bible, but we're also going through this book, which is a companion to the Fireproof movie we saw on my 30th birthday. We're just a week into it, but so far it's really good.

Anyway, that's our life these days. How are you guys?