What a Difference a Weekend Makes

A long weekend, Home Depot's paint sale, available parents, and a dear friend who had Wyatt over for a playdate made for a very productive weekend! There's something about paint that makes a house feel clean and fresh and ours. No more white paint. No more icky, yucky, old outlets and light switches. Just a wonderful, new atmosphere.

This is what you see when you walk in our front door. The hallway, dining room, and most of the living room are Cliveden Sandstone. And two walls are La Fonda Sombrero - the perfect terra cotta orange!

Our family room is Summer Field, a color I seriously debated. But now I'm so glad we went with it. It brightens the room but it's still warm enough. And the new carpet it ordered...yay!

We made a good team this weekend. Randy rolled paint, my dad cut in around the ceiling, and I cut in around the baseboards and windows. Why the mask you ask?

To protect this little peanut that's been hanging out on the refrigerator...and growing in my belly for the last 12 weeks. :-) We're excited to meet him or her in early December!

Finally...

I'm back. And not nearly so desperate. I tell you, I don't think we've been that crazy or chaotic in the four years of our marriage. We moved, twice sort of, I got super sick, then Randy got super sick, then Wyatt got super sick (which we nipped in the bud with his first antibiotic). At the same time as we were moving, Randy and his dad put in an awesome fountain at a local dentist' office. So the days off that Randy took to settle in disappeared with earning money for new carpet and all the other things we need to buy. Plus a few other major things that we'll talk about later on.

So for my first post back I'm picking...well, probably not the most important thing of the last month, but one about which I'm VERY excited. We pulled up ugly blue carpet in the living room, hallway, and dining room, revealing really nice wood floors underneath. However, we had no furniture for the living room, so our whole house echoed. I could hear every little move Randy made down the hall in the kitchen every morning. Errrr. Plus, our house felt very blank and unsettled with a large empty room in the middle of it.

Today Wyatt and I took a trip down to Carl's, a discount furniture store one of Randy's co-workers owns downtown. I had never been in, but garage sales have been turning up nothing the last couple weeks. I walked in and saw my couch! Marked down $100, but still more than I had envisioned paying. Just so happens they had a large rug they were selling for $100, which would usually retail for about $300. The two were perfect together, and I think I got a steal of a deal on exactly what I wanted in the living room. They were delivered 30 minutes later, and my living room no longer echoes!

I still need to find something funky for a coffee table - as in, not a traditional coffee table - and a chair, but I can take my time to finish it all. This is just MUCH better!

dear,

vacation, my name is dana. can we please meet? my husband and i will be driving a ford focus with a kansas tag. he'll look desperately tired and i'll look, well, desperate. we don't need much of your time. a weekend will do. please respond soon.