Pictures to come

I promise I will spend some time updating my blog soon.  It probably won't be for another week b/c things will finally slow down then.  It takes so much time to load pictures, and I'm just so out of practice I need to get myself geared up.  We are almost completely settled.  We have a few things to hang on the wall and I need to shuffle some things from the basement to upstairs, so I can actually use my craft stuff, but otherwise we are pretty much in.

I spent yesterday cleaning the house and man does a larger house take forever to clean. I kind of wish I had carpet after all that hard surface cleaning, but I know it's actually easier this way. 

We don't quite have enough furniture to fill up the house.  We have a need for some tables in our living room and a small end table in our family room.  We bought a sofa and 2 chairs for the l.r., but the tables just have to wait.  Our bedroom is so big (unecessarily so--wish some of that space was in my bathroom) that we have a whole empty corner, but again it just has to wait. 

We are having the first floor painted in week or so.  We are having light greyish-brown color in the living room, stairwell and hallway, a two tone (using that same color from the l.r. on top and a darker one in the same family under the chair rail, the darker color below the chair rail in the kitchen w/the cream color that's already there on top, and finally we are having the family room painted a blue-green gray on 3 walls of the family room, leaving the wall with the fireplace white and having the fireplace white-washed.  I think it will be pretty.  Two-toned w/the chair rail is out of my comfort zone, but I'm trying to step out. 

I went to a mom's night out event last week that was pretty good.  It's so hard putting yourself out there to get to know other people.  We're going to try a new church tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes.