Four and a half years ago, when we moved into our house I had a list of things I wanted to do right away. One of them was the Loft and another was the handles on the kitchen cabinets.
When you buy a house new here, everything is an upgrade and costs a lot of money. Simply getting nickel handles on our cabinets would have set us back an extra $500. We did not want to add that to our mortgage so we promised ourselves we would do it right away.
Four and a half years passed. And I finally got my handles.
It was so simple. It cost us $75 in hardware and a half an hour to install them. And to be honest, I talked to my Sister on the phone the whole time I was installing them, so I multi-tasked.
So why did we wait so long? I will never know, always something else to get done. But, now that we have had them on for almost a week, I have to say that I am quite happy with the results. So subtle, but nice. Makes me want to put away all the little extra things on the counters and have them all bare again. Who am I kidding, they haven’t been bare since the day we moved in!
One more thing crossed off my list of things to get done around here. Now the biggest question of all….
Any suggestions?
He is on his way home as we speak. And I can’t believe I haven’t posted since Wednesday. I still get kind of nauseous on the computer so I definately don’t check in every day right now, but I guess I thought I had posted since then.
Thursday, first day without Hubby, was a long one as J decided to climb into bed with me at 3:30 while the snowplows were out clearing the streets from our mini-storm. He rolled over me until 5:00 when he announced it was time to get up. I made him stay put until 6:00 but it wasn’t a restful sleep for sure.
My Mom stopped by on Thursday, ok, I invited her to stop by to help me tackle one of my To-Do’s from my list. We started at 9:30am and finished at 2:00pm. We cleaned the Loft. It was item number 2 which actually was to finish setting up the proper office, except I couldn’t do that until I cleaned it out. My Mom can’t do one room at a time, so she tackled A’s closet which was full of pretty much nothing. So together we got it all cleared out, cleaned out and ready to be an office once again. Hubby will die of shock for sure, that and the three bags of garbage and a bag of clothes that needs to go out.
J realized that we didn’t make any Valentine’s on Wednesday so I pulled out the craft supplies and we made a bunch of Valentine’s to give to his cousins and Aunties.
Lego. Lego. And more Lego. I have made planes, boats, space ships, and have a huge headache from playing Lego. Or I should say from building with Lego. Why can’t they make things that don’t fall apart? You spend 2 hours making a ship and within minutes half of it has fallen apart. And if your kid is anything like mine he wants it fixed over and over and over again. Yikes. At least I got a reprieve yesterday when I hung out at my Mom’s. My Dad, who has never owned Lego in his life, and has big hands not meant for Lego building, spent the afternoon playing Lego with J. Wow, that was a break for me.
Can’t wait for Hubby. I need a nap and to run far, far away from the Lego!
