Silver Linings

I feel like we have been living our last month and a half by silver linings...it has been a very popular saying in our household.   Examples are as follows:

1.  We have a pool in our new home
2.  We have a cleaning lady 
3.  Our bed is made everyday when we get home from work
4.  We get to do updates to our bathroom that we wouldn't have otherwise done
5.  I get to pick out new paint colors
6.  We are getting a new comforter
7.  I get to pick out new bathroom stuff
8.  There is hot coffee any time of the day or night
9.  We haven't had to cook (which I miss), but also means no dishes (which I don't miss)
10.  We  are going to declutter

11.  We found the valve to the water spicket in our backyard that we haven't been able to use since the house was bought (it was IN the ceiling of our basement...now they are going to put in a fake vent so we can access it)

12.  The closets got painted (not exciting, but it was on Rob's to do list)



And this list just continues.  On a brighter note, we are moving things back into our house next weekend!   It is hard to believe, but our hotel living will be coming to an end...and we are all ready for it.  Yesterday, on our way back  to the hotel from the house, Owen said excitedly "Mom, one more week and nap at home!"  If you can't tell, we have been talking about the count down to moving home and sleeping in his own bed. He also walks into every room that was just painted, touches it, and tells me "It nice mom.  I like it a lot".

I also got around to downloading some BEFORE pictures.  These pictures were taken in the process of moving everything, but all of the rooms had to be completely emptied of EVERYTHING.





Our bedroom





The boys'  bedroom





Our bathroom



Our bedroom/bathroom









Basement





Basement


Hopefully I will have some AFTER pictures ready to post soon.  I also have lots of entries to post of the boys swimming, in the hotel, and at the pumpkin patch.  We've had a busy fall!

Bumps in the Road

I apologize for my lack of posts and updates since Adam's brithday.  Our family was thrown into quite a whirlwind the last month...let me bring you all back to four weeks ago today.

It was the first Packer game, and Rob had gotten home before the kids and I.  As I pull into the garage, Rob opens the door while on the phone...he looks like he has seen a ghost.  All he said  was  "it's really bad"...not a statement you want to come home to at the end of the day.  I walk into the house, and hear a dripping sound.  Then I walk up the stairs  in my socks, and the carpet is drenched.  Apparently  our toilet had clogged at some point in the morning, overflowed, and ran all day while we were at work.  And unfortunatley it was our upstiars bathroom, which means it ran into our basement  bathroom, ceiling, and walls.  I never realized a toilet could do so much damage.  I don't think Rob or I truly understood the amount of damage until the restoration company came the next day.  As of Thursday night, I was going to take the next day off to work on cleaning the house and getting it ready for company, my parents were still going to stay at our house Friday night,  and we were still going to host Adam's 1st Birthday Party on Sunday.  By Friday late morning, we realized we weren't even go to have a house to sleep in for the foreseeable future, much less a house to host a birthday party at.  I do have pictures of the house before all of the work, but they will need to be posted on a different day.

The beginning was a little rough, with several hotel/location (six to be exact) changes, but we have been in he same hotel now for about three weeks.  It's a suite, so there is a seperate bedroom from the living room which is wonderful.  And the boys are loving the pool...they just think we are on vacation.

Lately, I've been slipping up a lot and will say something to Owen like "We are going to go home and eat."  Owen will always laugh and correct me "Mom, not home, go to hotel".   I told Rob, it will be a sad day when he doesn't correct  me, and considers the hotel his home.