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Lovely, just Lovely

My husband likes to tease me about this thing I say. Once, he was in the car with me, my mom, and two other older ladies. Someone noted that the flowers in the ditch were pretty. I agreed, “Yep.” The other two women said, “Lovely, just lovely.” So when I’m cooing over something cute, he mocks.

Lovely, just lovely!

Which actually right now is a pretty accurate description of the weather we’re having right now. It’s gorgeous! Spring started at 1:32 yesterday afternoon, and you can absolutely tell.

My son spent the entire day outside, practically. And today my kids went to this huge castle park that’s about an hour away. They left around 2 p.m., and haven’t yet returned. I’m sincerely hoping they’re so exhausted that they fell asleep in the car and my husband has to call me to come outside and help carry them in.

The good weather has me thinking about all the things I want to do to the house this summer. Since we bought it at the start of fall, we didn’t really have a chance (or the funds) to do any sort of anything last year.

I want to:

  • Get the windows fixed – glazing, sashes repaired, the two broken panes replaced
  • Get someone to look at the roof and estimate when it needs redone, and how much it will cost
  • Get the tile in the bathroom fixed so it doesn’t leak into the dining room any more

(Speak of the devils – they just arrived home at 8:30 – what a day!)

My husband also mentioned getting the wallpaper off the walls, and we toyed with the idea of exposing the brick on the interior wall, upstairs and down. I think it could look truly awesome. My husband, I think, was just going along for the ride. It’s okay – if he hates it, I’m sure he’ll let me know.

But that may be a project for another set of funds. Until my youngest is in school, daycare is sucking the life out of us. A familiar tale. Perhaps someday when I have more time I’ll find a solution for that.

Actually, completely going off on another tangent, having a daycare exchange – where say two families work out flexible work schedules and then the kids spend time at everyone’s house in a rotating schedule for only the cost of food and supplies would be ideal, really. But ANYWAY…

So now that spring is here, there are things to be done. Money to be saved and spent, projects to be started and hopefully completed.

Yay, spring!

Lovely, just Lovely was published on March 21st, 2010, with the tags , , , , , , under the Completely Off Topic category. There are currently no comments on this article so far.

Victory!

Well, I have 17 minutes of battery life, so this is just an update, not a really cool, thought provoking post. That will come tomorrow.

Today went well! I took the day off in case either of my kids had a complete meltdown on their first day of daycare and school, but it was totally unnecessary. There were no tears at dropoff, and both kids said they had lots of fun today. Yay! (Although my son, who got to go to the church just a few blocks from our new house on Sunday, said that he still liked church more than school. Too cute!)

So amidst my worrying, today, I cleaned, napped, unpacked, ran errands, and ferried kids around. I shopped at three stores, took three separate car trips, and probably unpacked all of three boxes before DH got home and started unpacking faster than I could think.

We obviously have very different methods to things. Which is why we make such a great team. :D

So Saturday we packed the truck, and Sunday we unloaded it. Basically, it all went well. We have lots and lots of boxes decorating our living room and dining room (but most of them are out of the kitchen – yay!), and there are several (45-60) boxes still at my parents’ place. My daughter, when we talk about going home, says, “Are we going to the new house? We get to live there forever? Yay! We get to live there forEVER!”

Awww!

At any rate, I’m claiming victory over the move. My mom thinks we’ll be unpacked by Christmas. That would be seriously awesome, to be able to put up our new-to-us tree (belonged to the former owner, and is now slightly broken after a trip down the stairs), and invite my parents over for pizza and presents.

Thanks, everyone, for hanging in there with me! Sorry about the double post of links today – it turns out when I have Delicious send my links every day, it will send the last day of links it has – which means if I don’t update for a day, the same day is pulled twice. Yikes! Sorry that had to show up on your feed reader(s)!

Victory! was published on August 31st, 2009, with the tags , , , , under the Completely Off Topic category. There are currently no comments on this article so far.