Out with the OLD and in with the NEW

Can I just tell you how much work getting new carpet is!!! Our carpet is 16 yrs old! Time for new carpet in all our bedrooms and the hall and stairs and family room. BUT...you can't just carpet!! Because everything has to come out of that room in order to rip up the old and put down the new so its the perfect time to paint. Which also means old wallpaper has to be removed, outlets and switches need to be removed, holes need to be patched and everything pretaped so you don't paint the white where the tan should be and vice a versa! Its also a good time to dejunk, so as everything is taken it out it has to be sorted as keeper or DI. Now there are piles of random stuff everywhere, BUT the bedrooms are empty! When Mike got sick and we didn't go to Arizona Jenny and I removed the wallpaper from the bedrooms. I was going to pay a painter to come in and paint for us, but I wanted new furniture, too. So, Mike being the wonderful husband he is offered that we paint to save the money and it could go towards the furniture. We have been painting for 3 days now and it still isn't done (almost, but not done). I wonder if he wishes he hadn't said anything. New carpet and furniture will be here the end of October!! Come November it will all be worth it, but right now it plain stinks. Literally! Our house smells like paint.

Mike's health is so much better! His MRI came back clear. His doctor put him on steroids to help bring his hearing back. He still can't hear out of his right ear. They are thinking that his whole thing was brought on by the Shingles. He had the symptoms, but because he got on the medicine the blisters never manifested. His therapy is really helping with his balance and motion sickness. He goes back to work tomorrow. We are thankful his health is coming back and will continue to hope and pray his hearing will, too.





We leave this week for Arizona! I can't wait to see my grandson! Watching their blog shows me how much is growing and changing. He is so cute! And I want to give Jason the biggest hug, EVER, because he passed the bar! He has worked so hard to achieve such a monumental accomplishment and we are so proud of him. And I want to give Jen a huge hug! She is the glue of their family. I love her love of life. Its contagious.