I plan to post a vacation blog, however I am still waiting for my daughters to send me some pics from their phones which take much better pics than our digital camera.
For now though, it is nice to be home. I am getting back into the routine of constant laundry, planning all my meals instead of stopping at fastfood, and trying really hard not to scream at the teenagers camped out on my couch eating junk food and staring at Netflix all day. Why don't they go DO something? Don't they know they will be stuck at home for years after they "grow up" and have kids? Why are they wasting a sunny day? Should I get rid of Netflix? I just banned eating in the livingroom for now, but Karl won't back me up, and how long will that last? Karl's family is the type who had soda with dinner and ate bags of potato chips sitting on the couch at night. Yuck. And he thinks that's okay.
Having been to several different motels/hotels in the past six month, I am beginning to notice things I want for my house. I love the lack of clutter hotels have. Our suite in Florida was equipped with everything we would need (except bookshelves), and not one bit more. I am so tempted just to throw everything in my kitchen out and just START OVER. Fingerhut used to have these starter kitchen sets, I wish I could find one now.
I am still thinking about what to do with Liam's toys. I go back and forth. We are slowly collecting cherry finished wood, but someone gave us a crib that is more honey colored. Should I get a toy shelf to match the crib or what we already have? The toy chest will be in the dining room for now. Karl's parents gave us an oak dining table. I don't like oak-colored finish anymore (too country), we have a nasty oak particleboard desk and hutch, a cherry finished (solid oak) bookshelf, and white ikea cube shelving in the dining room. Plus the molding is all white finished. What to do? They have cheaper cube shelving at target in white which would be okay with the ikea and the molding, but I hate to start purchasing cheap stuff. But if I get higher quality stuff what color finish? Go to Wood U and paint some oak shelves white? Or stain them cherry? Or be thinking about the time when the little ones have a room of their own to share and go with honey?
I get so frustrated, I don't do anything.
So now I want to declutter everything, and I strongly suspect one of the cats peed on the diningroom rugs while we were gone. I wonder if I can get the kids to help me air them out on the porch? Hmmm. At least they were each only $30 at Kmart, and they are almost two years old, so if I have to throw them out, i would guess I got good use out of them.
I can't decide whether or not to make a room for Caleb in the basement. I think he needs the interaction of being close to the rest of the family-he is so reclusive. But I want the little boys to have their own room. But really, an affordable five bedroom house is not to be found on this side of town.
Urg.....I am glad I have a big family, I can't imagine the easy, boring manageability of just one or two kids (I remember having two, easy, but not as much fun as 3+), but the space problem is annoying.
For now though, it is nice to be home. I am getting back into the routine of constant laundry, planning all my meals instead of stopping at fastfood, and trying really hard not to scream at the teenagers camped out on my couch eating junk food and staring at Netflix all day. Why don't they go DO something? Don't they know they will be stuck at home for years after they "grow up" and have kids? Why are they wasting a sunny day? Should I get rid of Netflix? I just banned eating in the livingroom for now, but Karl won't back me up, and how long will that last? Karl's family is the type who had soda with dinner and ate bags of potato chips sitting on the couch at night. Yuck. And he thinks that's okay.
Having been to several different motels/hotels in the past six month, I am beginning to notice things I want for my house. I love the lack of clutter hotels have. Our suite in Florida was equipped with everything we would need (except bookshelves), and not one bit more. I am so tempted just to throw everything in my kitchen out and just START OVER. Fingerhut used to have these starter kitchen sets, I wish I could find one now.
I am still thinking about what to do with Liam's toys. I go back and forth. We are slowly collecting cherry finished wood, but someone gave us a crib that is more honey colored. Should I get a toy shelf to match the crib or what we already have? The toy chest will be in the dining room for now. Karl's parents gave us an oak dining table. I don't like oak-colored finish anymore (too country), we have a nasty oak particleboard desk and hutch, a cherry finished (solid oak) bookshelf, and white ikea cube shelving in the dining room. Plus the molding is all white finished. What to do? They have cheaper cube shelving at target in white which would be okay with the ikea and the molding, but I hate to start purchasing cheap stuff. But if I get higher quality stuff what color finish? Go to Wood U and paint some oak shelves white? Or stain them cherry? Or be thinking about the time when the little ones have a room of their own to share and go with honey?
I get so frustrated, I don't do anything.
So now I want to declutter everything, and I strongly suspect one of the cats peed on the diningroom rugs while we were gone. I wonder if I can get the kids to help me air them out on the porch? Hmmm. At least they were each only $30 at Kmart, and they are almost two years old, so if I have to throw them out, i would guess I got good use out of them.
I can't decide whether or not to make a room for Caleb in the basement. I think he needs the interaction of being close to the rest of the family-he is so reclusive. But I want the little boys to have their own room. But really, an affordable five bedroom house is not to be found on this side of town.
Urg.....I am glad I have a big family, I can't imagine the easy, boring manageability of just one or two kids (I remember having two, easy, but not as much fun as 3+), but the space problem is annoying.
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