Full House Again

The house is full again - all my loved ones sleeping peacefully under this roof. Boy, was it loud this evening.

MB returned safely and just a bit more spoiled from her weekend with her Aunt and Uncle. She travels easily, and seems to enjoy her time away from us where she can be the only child. Shopping for clothes, doing hair and nails and little girl make-up; the stuff I am just not very good at. Then turn around and head out on a hike through the woods and a canoe trip where she saw deer and wild turkeys.

We enjoyed our weekend too. It was beautiful weather and I spent a lot of Saturday outside moving some plants around and prepping areas for when my mother comes up in a couple of weeks to help us finally landscape. DH came home from one of his clients Saturday afternoon bearing a HUGE grouping of yellow bearded irisis, so we had to find a place for those. He said that there were three of these groupings but he could only fit the one in the back of his pathfinder, they were that big.

Last night, when it got too dark to work outside and DH gave me the evening off I decided to actually finish the master bath project that we started on in July. So I have hung a new light fixture, to replace the wonderful bare-bulbed glamour light from the '80s. And I also laid the new vinyl tile floor. This was a pain because it is a small bathroom, so there were only three full, uncut tiles used. The rest had to be cut to shape. But it is done, kind of. I am thinking some new pulls for the cabinet and maybe hanging a new medicine cabinet, and...

So with the bathroom done and the landscaping for the full being taken care of in a couple of weeks we can turn our attention to the kitchen. We thought about putting it off for the winter, but if we do actually decide to put the house on the market this spring (yes we are thinking of moving, again) I would like to go ahead and finish the kitchen. Then we will only have to worry with the girls' bathroom (soft spot on the floor by the tub -hmmm maybe I should call Dy on that one), and minor cosmetic things like crown molding and new carpet in the den.

Okay, back to the weekend. Today we skipped church an just had a nice quiet morning around the house. We relaxed, played and I got some more knitting and reading done. DH and K drove about two hours away to meet BIL/SIL with MB, while EM and I stayed home. EM napped, I napped. It was a pleasant afternoon.

Then chaos. MB was excited to be home, K was excited to have her home so they ran around the house and played, fought over shared MB's new toys. Finally after a healthy dinner of take-out pizza because the chicken I thawed for dinner didn't thaw quick enough, we actually had a family game night. We have not done this in ages so it was nice. MB picked out Sight Word Bingo for the first game and took her turn reading a lot of the words. I also noticed how much better she is getting at hearing the wor and figuring out which one it is. Then we played Yhatzee. We could not get MB to understand that she did not want to keep trying for full houses.

Tomorrow is Monday and back to the grind, so to speak, after basically four days off. We will see how well we settle back into the groove of things.

Peace,

Amy