Christmas Dreaming

Whew!  It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these!  Well, let me give you an update on what has been happening in my life.  Last I posted was right near the end of the “Great Power Outage of ‘08″…lol…Sounds so much more dramatic than it really was.  Thinking back, though, it was so strange how “cut-off” we felt from the rest of the world.  No tv, no radio, no internet.  We didn’t even venture out away from our house for 3 days.  We were relying on news coming in from our neighbors and such.  It was just so strange, and oddly satisfying…hmm.  Well, anyway, during the windstorm we lost half of the shingles off our roof, so just this past weekend, we finally had the roof redone.  Now, lucky for us my dad is a roofing contractor.  What that meant for us was that my dad, brother, uncle-in-law, friends and DH were around all weekend, up on the roof, in and out of my house, drinking bottle after bottle of Gatorade, eating tons of food and traipsing black, 100-year-old-third-layer-of-shingles residue through my house.  My kitchen and dining room wood floors are BLACK,my couches are black because, at the end of a long day, they decided to take a rest on my TAN couches; I have a pile of BLACK clothes from DH waiting to be washed (I’m trying to finish all of my other clothes first so they don’t end up with residue from his clothes), and on top of all that, life goes on, so DD still has Girl Scouts, Cheerleading practice, football games, gymnastics and school.  OH, and my DS (6 months old) has just started to get into the attachment phase, so now when I leave him with my Mom in the mornings, he cries when he realizes that I’m leaving…ugh.  I’m feeling pretty run down right now.  But, I have a nice new roof now, the money finally came from the insurance company (although they almost DOUBLED our rates now (time to switch companies!)), and aside from the Saturday morning football game that DD has to cheer at, my weekend is free to spend it all cleaning up and catching up on housework.  Yay!  Now, I’m ready to get my house ready for Christmas.  I’m going to try to convince DH to let me start bringing up all of the Christmas decorations soon…but we’re wanting to do a bunch of painting before we decorate, so that may have to be put off a little longer…   So now, trying to hurry things along, I’m trying to decide on paint colors for my living room…auughhhh…so many choices.  So much to do…so little time (to me it’s not much time anyway, DH would argue that 2 months is FOREVER!) lol  Well, I’m off to try to pick a paint color…till next time!