Brady and I were determined to get a few things done around the house today. While we’ve had to give up any real dream of having a timeline for listing our home, its sat now for quite some time, and we’ve got to get back at it. We purchased a bunch of little things to help with small fixes all over our house, and I know Brady is kind of excited to get on that part of the job, but he made the mistake of asking where I would like him to start. And I picked the living room. In order to paint it, all of the furniture was pushed into the middle of the room. The two couches say facing each other and creating the perfect storage solution for every single mess that lingered through our house. Therefore, it wasn’t as easy a fix as simple pulling the couches apart again. We had to deal with everything that those two couches were housing. The whole room was a pretty daunting task, to be completely honest. But we just started in one corner and made our way around until the centre of the couches were emptied out! Yay for finally having a place to sit upstairs that isn’t the floor or at the table!!! I have SO missed having a soft place to sit upstairs when people come over. Its been over a month.
Its not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. However, we’ve come to the conclusion that we’ll need to store quite a few things before we try to sell this place. We were hoping to just wait until it was time to move, but it needs to be done. With that in mind, we are finding it easier to “tidy” as a bunch of our furniture will be going into storage, so we’re not having to waste too much time figuring out what fits where. Does that make any sense? Whether it does or not, we at least have a plan for our main upstairs area, how we want it to look, what stays, and what goes. We have to do a bunch more organizing before it will be possible, but we got a great chunk of that taken care of today. Our desk area has been a disaster pretty much since we moved in, so getting that cleaned off and organized was a HUGE accomplishment! Go us!
In the afternoon, a couple of our friends from church drove out with a few meals for us. It was nice to have them in for a little bit, to visit an indulge in baby cuddles. Dekker poked his face upstairs once, surveyed our guests, and promptly went back downstairs, but Laela came for a visit and to terrorize a little bit. Its good that she’s so cute.
We demolished a lasagna that was brought over this evening, and then played downstairs with the kids. Brady and I were hoping to get more done this evening but for some reason, as soon as the kids were up from their naps, he and I both felt dead to the world. So we’re done for the night, save for a bath and maybe a little snack. I’ve pretty much cut late night snacking out of my routine since Rowan was born, and I think its a really good decision, but the very real truth is that I miss it a lot. Anyone have super yummy and not-too-bad-for-you snack ideas for later in the evening???