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.

Moving, moving, moving

Well, the packers are here, and we are trying to stay out of the way.  There are currently 4 strange men handling all my belongings.  It's a weird feeling.  It always makes you see what you own through other people's eyes. How do others view our possessions--probably as junk mostly.  I think Scott and I are going to do some hard evaluating once we move about what is really necessary.  I wouldn't have really considered myself a pack-rat, but then I see everything, and I realize I need to de-clutter/simplify.  I need to get rid of stuff I don't love and pass it on to someone new. 

It's weird to have men pack up this time as last time it was 2 women who did a beautiful job.  I'm not real trusting of men packing breakables...just sayin'.  Scott has been known to be a bit clumsy with our breakables. 

We are hoping that everything with our loan goes through as we had a communication snafu, so we are still crossing our fingers this thing goes through.  Waiting is the hardest part. 

Our new house--soon

Home sweet home soon.

That balcony is going to get a little bit of work to make it seem a bit more open.  Kind of funky thing, but oh well.

Here are links to

pictures

.  Not sure how much longer the link will be active.  Can't wait to get some paint on the walls, my curtains up, and our stuff in there.  It will look totally different.

I don't have enough furniture!

A litte update

I can't believe it's been over a month since my last post.  Things are a bit crazy here with the hurry up and wait and then rush some more we've been experiencing. 

Since I broke my camera I've not taken any photos--obviously.  Here's a little written update on what you've missed.

--we lost the first house we had under contract due to foreclosure
--we went to Jamaica--an amazing vacation.  So sad we didn't have a camera
--we found another house after a 16 house in 1 day house search marathon--sooooo stressful
--we have an accepted contract but couldn't get a move-in day we wanted, so there will be about 16 days of limbo where we have no home.
--i am struggling to find C a new preschool. It is way more stressful than it should be
--we have started packing/prepping for packing in earnest, taking down stuff off the walls, switching out fridges, and moving personal stuff we don't want stored on a truck for 2.5 weeks.

We are ready for this phase to be over.  We still haven't heard if our inspection requests will be fixed, so we're still in the waiting phase.

Whaaa!

I feel like a whiny adult most of the time lately.  I'm just disappointed and annoyed by everything it seems like.  I need a serious attitude adjustment, so I went to WERQ (as in "work it" this morning, and it did not disappoint.  That class along with Zumba is just fodder for human oddities.  Here are my observations from that 60 min class.

1. I do not like to get low or shake my moneymaker all that much...especially w/o alcohol to aid me.  Though learning this songs did make me seem hipper the last time I went to a bar.  I was the only person in my group who'd heard at least 3 of the songs played in 1 hour...so old. I still feel stupid after a year of these classes doing this.  For the first time I felt sympathy with the actors on Glee who aren't really dancers.  Also those girls on that Pussy Cat Dolls be in the group show a few years ago.  Choreography just makes you feel silly if you don't know it, and you know you look stupid. 

2. I saw a woman wearing M.C. Hammer/diaper style pants.  I swear to you.  Straight out of 1990, but in capri length.  I wanted to vomit. The instructor kept saying how cute they were, I disagree.

3. The woman who randomly yells, I can only assume what she thinks are encouraging grimace noises during the workout, was there.  I have come to love/hate her.  Thankfully the music was really loud, so I couldn't hear her too much.  She yells things like, "Huh," "Show it to me," "Get it," and other unsolicited nonsense. Maybe when I move back to St. Louis I will try her strategy to see how many friends I make--NOT.

4.  When Adele's song "Rolling in the Deep" came on, and the instructor turned off the lights.  It was eerie with all that estrogen in there while we were stomping to that song.  Then it chilled when it turned into a stretch song.  For a minute it felt like a meeting of man-haters. 

You should treat yourself to some youtube videos of women doing Zumba and WERQ, I guarantee you will feel better.

The Longest day

I think I should just put a sign on C's bed that says "Puke Here" because that's what he does. C has been puking off and on all day.  It started when I went to get him up to get going for the day.  He said good morning, got quiet, and started puking.  Then he puked more in the hallway while I was getting laundry going.  The other times I got him to the bathroom in time. FFWD to lunch time.  He hadn't puked in almost 4 hours, and he'd been holding down a little gatorade and saltines.  So, I asked him if he wanted some applesauce or chicken noodle--b/c he kept asking for food.  When he was finished, I was cleaning up the applesauce, and I hear him go upstairs.  I ask him what he's doing.  He says he's going to lay down.  I ask him lots more questions, which he doesn't answer which means he's probably going to throw up.  By the time I get up there, he's starting the heaves. Then pukes right in the center of his bed and all over himself-a lot.  Now 2 more loads of laundry after the other 2 loads I've already done today plus the gazillion I did yesterday and Tuesday. While I was stripping his bed I told him to stay in the bathtub (just dry, but to contain any more puking). I make it back upstairs, and the bathroom doesn't smell like puke, but poop.  I asked him if he'd pooped his pants--nope.  I'd asked him several times today b/c I kept getting a whiff.  Everytime I checked...nothing.  Well this time, there was something.  He must have had a wet toot earlier and not told me, so back down to the laundry.  I'm officially calling it the flu!

Party Planning

Let's just say I've spent a lot of time on the internet recently, and I've run out of things to look at after a 3rd day stuck at home.  I am trying to come up with ideas for C's upcoming b-day party.  Sure it's 5 months away, but I've got time today.  He really wants a Voltron party.  This theme does not particularly speak to me.  He is determined to have this theme as he's been asking for it since November.  He always dreams of his cake first...no lie.  He has requested a the robot form cake and had the gall to ask for the lion forms for his 5th bday. In no uncertain terms I told him that's not happening. He can have one Voltron party--no more than that.  Everything is going to have to be designed and created b/c there are no stock parties in a bag for Voltron these days.  Though I did just find out they re-released the 5 lions/drivers and the robot.  For $30-$60 each.  The first released one is already sold out.  Wow.  None of those will be his present or part of the decoration.  What type of games do you have..."kill the ro-beast," "train the mice," or "fitness training?" These are really the only things the Voltron force does.  That and a lot of sweating when they are struggling to pilot their lions.  This will be a smaller scale party than last year's b/c chances are he's not going to have a lot of guests and we won't have the backyard space. 

Please, please, please give me ideas.