home improvement update

We have been doing lots of painting. Randy HAS been painting. I have been doing lots of  WAITING for paint to dry. Do you know how incredibly boring watching paint dry is?

Yesterday after church the painting projects were all wrapped up. Now the fun begins! I get to put it all back together. I love doing that. It means before long I will have candles lit. Music on. Coffee in hand. I will be in one recliner and Randy will be in the other.

So - the the living room was all empty and we were going to wash the wood floors. I was out of wood cleaner but find a brand new bottle of wood rejuvenater in the pantry. Randy was excited to rejuvenate our tired looking wood and he went to town on mopping the floor. Half way through he asked me to look at the bottle and see what the drying time was on the stuff. Drying time?

When it's dry it's dry - right?

I read the bottle and about fell over. 24 hours before moving furniture and rugs and heavy traffic. WHAT?? I was ready to put my room together right that minute! Not 24 hours. Honestly - it might as well have said 24 years at this point.

Now I get to watch the wood floor dry. Jeez.  

Another thing - I emptied a china cabinet and a book case to move them to different rooms. Randy and I moved them and I reloaded them with stuff and I hated where I moved them.  So when I get home today - I am unloading and we are moving them back.

By that time my living room floor should be dry for me to put the rug down and finish putting it all back together.

I am so sick of projects I could scream and I always start out so excited.

My excitement is always so short lived.

established 2005

We moved into our current house six years ago this week.

I will never forget that week. It's the week from H.E. double toothpicks.  I just wanted to take control of my life back.

Moving is NEVER a sane thing to do but when you throw in a few wild cards it is crazier than ever. 

We took possession of our house a week early to do a few projects. Those included painting 4 bedrooms (trim and walls) and hall trim and walls so carpet could be laid before we moved in.  Painted all our kitchen cabinets and our basement walls before moving in. Call us crazy - we are for sure. I will never - I repeat NEVER will redo a house while moving in.

Our kids had the stomach flu.

I had buyers remorse.

My grandma had open heart surgery and then passed away from complications. All preparations were done for her funeral in the midst of our move.

Because my grandma was in the hospital my mom and dad could not help us at all. (for obvious reasons - I still  missed them terribly during all the chaos)

We had so much support and help from wonderful friends and family. An awesome moving crew. Looking back we never could have managed without all those wonderful folks!

Did I mention I had buyers remorse? I can't hardly buy a candy bar without regretting it and we had just moved to a different house? And to make matters much worse - I could just look out my front door and see my old house. Makes a girl like me a little batty.

Fast forward to day..all is well! Life is good. I no longer have buyers remorse.

We are celebrating six years in this home by painting. Over half of the interior of our house. Well.....Randy is painting but I picked the color. Isn't that the most important job anyways?

I'm glad we are here. Glad that week is a long time ago memory. Thankful that I have such a beautiful house to call our home.

Quiet

I am the queen of quiet. The queen of calm. I must have it. I love it.

For the past few days it has been anything but quiet. Anything but calm.

Lots of chaos. Lots of laughing.

Lot of Walmart runs. Lots of cooking.

Lots of coffee time.

Not much calm or quiet.

I loved having the Chicago girls here for a long weekend. LOVE LOVE LOVED IT!

Did I mention the chaos?

Every bit of it beautiful and sweet chaos?

The girls left this morning. In the middle of the night.

The train station was not quiet. It was not calm.

We came home without the Chicago girls.

My house is quiet.

My house is calm.

The tree and all things Christmas are all put away for another year.

I miss my girls.

I miss the fun and loud voices.

I miss Lucy's voice.

I miss Stella and Abe acting like siblings and getting on each others nerves.

I miss her calling me "MiMi"

I'm looking at flights....