New Furniture!

At long last, our new furniture arrived. We ordered it in mid-February and it was supposed to take 6-8 weeks. It took 4 months. Our bedroom no longer looks like a dorm room! Oh...and that is new carpet, too. The old carpet was messed up from the leak we had several months ago that also resulted in having to repair the ceiling in the family room.






The armoir barely made it up the stairs. It's 2 pieces, but our stairs have a landing 1/2 way up and turn.













Here is the new piece for our dining room. We needed some more space for our china, etc. However...before we can put anything in there, we need to put a lock on it b/c Lacey is already opening and closing everything on it!

Summer, minivan, vacation....

It’s been so long since I’ve posted that everyone may have quit checking! Not sure where to start.

Butch’s last day at work was June 15, so he is now enjoying the summer with Lacey. She isn’t whiney with him (or anyone for that matter) the way she is with me. So, they should have a good time! For some reason she whines with me a lot. If I try to cook, clean, read, anything that isn’t focused on her. I know she may miss me since I work, but I spend a lot of quality time with her, too. “Time-Ins” is what that is called, BTW. Anyway, hopefully it is a (short) phase and she’ll grow out of it.

Chuck & Nancy were here for a little over 2 weeks. They left on Saturday. It was a great visit and Lacey enjoyed them….I’m pretty sure they enjoyed her, too! However, Lacey’s sleep patterns weren’t as good as they had been. I think that’s our fault because if she cried out in the night, we went to her immediately – in an effort to keep her from waking them up. Now that we aren’t doing that, she’s sleeping a little better already.

We have some fun trips coming up. Butch & I are going to Rochester, NY July 7-9 to visit Agnes and Trampas. Lacey is staying with Rick & Kristina for 1 night and with Kristin for the next night. I’m looking forward to time with Ag & Trampas, and to having adult time, but dreading leaving Lacey. She’s not very accepting (to put it mildly) of others. But, I think once we are gone, she’ll fine. I just wish I didn’t have to hear her cry when we go.

Then, on June 14, we leave for the Outer Banks for a week! Ahhh….I can hear the ocean already. We’re meeting Tonya & Todd & their girls (Elizabeth & Rhianna). I hope we have good weather most of the time since I know Lacey loves the outdoors so much. I assume Liz and Rhi are like that, too. We have a 4 bedroom house with a Jacuzzi. It’s 340 yards to the beach, so not too far. Carrying everything that is needed for 3 young ones might be tough, though!

Lacey is starting swim lessons on July 3 for 2 weeks, 4x a week. I can’t wait. She got into PaPa’s pool on Friday and loved it. At first she wasn’t sure, but it took her no time to think she was a fish.

Oh – we bought a minivan! A Honda Odyssey, EX-L with rear entertainment (DVD). It should make traveling much easier and more comfortable. I drove it to work on Monday, but I’m in the CR-V today. The van is a little hard to maneuver in our garage here at work. And, Butch is with Lacey for the summer, so it makes sense for him to have the van. He was looking forward to driving the CR-V, though. We’ll see how it works out.

So, with 3 weeks and 2 days left before leaving for vacation, I am on a mission! I don’t care what the scale says, but I want to feel better and look more tone! So, I’m following Weight Watchers again and have signed up on sparkspeople.com. It’s got a lot of fitness and nutrition resources, plus you can track calories, etc.