Changes

First I must inform you, my faithful blog readers, that my home is once again a safe haven. We caught a mouse and there have since been no indications that any of the mouse’s family has come back looking for revenge against the mouse-killers. We have also taken some preventative measures in our home. The final step will be to inspect underneath the house, but when my husband goes to work in the dark and comes home in the dark, it’s a bit difficult to get that accomplished. Excuses, excuses. I know.

There’s been some changes happening around these parts. Big changes.

A number of Saturdays ago, Ed opened this big heavy box in the little girls’ room and went to work!

They love their new bunkbed! What’s even better is that we managed to sell both Becca’s other twin bed and Elise’s toddler bed to somebody at Ed’s work!

It took a few nights before Becca slept through the night up there, but now she’s doing great!

We also changed the way we “live” in this house…we needed an additional space for movie-watching and hanging-out, especially when the girls have friends over. So, we sold the old blue couch, moved the futon into the living room, bought a new chair and futon cover, moved the rocking chair and the corner cabinet into the office, bought a TV and TV stand, put up blinds for privacy at night, rearranged computers, and viola! It happened! Make sense? Maybe the pictures will clear it up….

Love my fun chair that I got at a HUGE discount!

Still working on cleaning up this space a little – need some baskets for cords and such, but it’s a convenient little TV stand and we’ve got my old laptop in there, with a keyboard, which turns this TV also into a computer. Which is good since there’s not actually any cable in there so you can’t watch TV. Only DVD’s and online streaming shows.

This desk actually needs the real coat of paint – just has primer so far. But I needed it out of the garage and needed to try it in the room, so it’s sitting here for now until I someday have time to paint. Which might be in 2012.

The print was shared by a friend and you can download it and print it yourself here. Love it!

The little “Family” Scrabble tiles were inspired by my friend Tamara, who actually bought 1000’s of tiles on ebay and made a TON of these to sell at her craft shows. I just threw this one together from our Scrabble board, but Ed says I have to put them back so we can play Scrabble. Which we haven’t done since before Sarah was born. I refuse to play Scrabble with him because he always uses words that no normal people know. Seriously!

Anyhoo, I get to pick up the ones Tamara made for me tomorrow and then I can put those Scrabble tiles back in the box, in case someday Ed wants to play and promises only to use words I know.

I’m really glad we kept the futon because then anyone who spends the night still has a place to sleep on a bed and off the floor! We splurged on the expensive futon when we bought it years ago so it’s a pretty comfortable bed.

Doesn’t Ed’s office look SO much bigger?

The space is this house is functioning much better now. Come on over and see it for yourself!