We are slowly turning our house into a home. We have a few things hanging on the walls. Of course, when we are finally ready to paint, we’ll have to take them down for a little bit. The pictures of the kids that I took at Easter should be ready today. I’m going to frame them and hang them up as well. I need some pictures of Jill’s girls. I took some with film Jill had when they were here and gave her the film back to develop. I wonder how well they came out. Anyway, back to subject. We have lots of the children’s books in a bookshelf. We still need to put together the other bookshelf. We have a toy box upstairs and one downstairs and I’ve gone through them and thrown some away, gave some away, or put away baby ones for when a baby is visiting. That cut down our toys by at least half. I found a place for puzzles, games, and those toys of multiple pieces (legos, train set, ect.) which I only allow out when the living room is completely clean. We have cleaned out what they left in the attic and put in our own stuff. I’ve thrown out one port-a-crib that was used for Noelle’s bed for the last two years and put the other (for visitors here) away. We have two cribs here. Not sure where the second one came from, but I’m giving one to the pregnancy center if it is still good and keeping one. We have a bed that we’ll be setting up for James today and a crib mattress for AnnaBeth that we’ll slide under Amie’s bed during the day. We found the leaf to our table, so now we can make it large enough for all of us to eat at. It’s been a bit cramped at dinner times.
It’s just so exciting for things to be coming together and looking like a home. I’ll have to take some more pictures. I really need to put up our before pictures for you all.
Oooo! Looks like an English Half-Timbered Style house. Please, do not be impressed. I was recalling some knowlege from High School Interior Design. Why that class involved learning the outside ’style’ of the house is beyond me.
I’ m eager to see more pictures as you finish work to the inside as well.
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I love your names: Bosses A Lot and Talks A Lot! Both of those could apply to Halie (my oldest), who I’ve named Runs With Scissors.
You’ve done a lot of work so far and the house will be a lovely home once all is done! We became DIYers when our first home was a 1906 handyman special (practically). But what a sense of accomplishment when you get things the way you want them in the end! Woohoo!