This new sleep pattern of: less than 2 hours, get up, repeat, repeat, then about one hour...has netted at the most, added up, seven hours of interrupted sleep. That's been getting me by, but this morning, I was in the bathroom, ready to go out for my last little one hour sleep, and Paul and Sunny were up already! I asked why so early on a Saturday, he said he was awake. No worries, he made me a good hot cup of coffee. :)
Yesterday afternoon, Sonja K. was here with baby Kaia, and Char and Cam were here too. They had tons of schoolwork to catch up on, so we decided to order a pizza and some wings for dinner. I have been really craving the dirty charred wings they make up at the place in town, they're so good, and they didn't disappoint. I also had a half slice of pepperoni pizza, mmm.
Such an exciting life, right?
This fine morning, Paul and I did our exercises together, his a bit more intense than mine. We're talking about going to Arizona. We were thinking in February, but it won't be pool season yet there, and I like pool season, to say the least. Having their beautiful pool right there out back is heavenly. So we're thinking April.
I have my trip to Norway booked for March, so I have a goal to be walking and moving and back on my feet. I know it looks like I've made progress, and I have, but it's still so...dismal sometimes. I sit and elevate, ice my knee, then get up to walk around, and it's extremely stiff and painful, truly one step forward and two back.
Anyway, Paul and I have plans for our downstair bathroom. He's going to finish the ceiling, put some bead board on the walls, put in new trim along the floors and ceiling, get a new shower head...I like when he gets on board with getting these things done. Is there anything more satisfying than a good before and after?
We have a huge room downstairs that has too much stuff in it. Shelves with camping gear and painting equipment and tools, a large chest freezer, then stacks of bins of decorations, and toys. Lots of toys. There's an Emmaljunga pram, a double Emmaljunga stroller, a high chair (for some reason, my kids don't seem to put their kids in those very often...so I might just get rid of it)(I do have a booster seat with a tray, and another booster seat). There are dollhouses and road tracks and and and.
My plan is to downsize the decorations into few enough bins that they can go in the upstairs guest room closet. Then downsize the toys, keeping mostly dollhouse and some Little Tikes stuff, and putting that in the downstairs guest room closet. Then, massively getting rid of everything else. We have another bedroom down there which has an extra refrigerator and shelves in it for supplies we used for renovating rental houses, we can put the camping things and tools we want to keep in there. The chest freezer will probably have to stay, but I really picture a big empty room for the grandkids to play in.
In that big empty room, I'd like new flooring. I'd like some built-ins at the end of the room, with a nice fake fireplace in the middle. A couch, maybe a game system, a few chairs, nothing else.
Our family isn't getting any smaller, so a secondary gathering place/play space is almost a necessity.
It just takes a lot of time and effort, and some amount of money, although we do the work ourselves so it isn't that expensive, says the woman who has all the ideas. :)
Grow where you're planted, that's what I say. We aren't moving anywhere, so we may as well make the absolute best of what we do have, which is a huge rectangle of a house, with eight bedrooms.
Cheryl commented about having the crooked picture on the wall, oh my goodness! Story of my LIFE right now! I see the things no one else sees, and I don't want to nag. I am a vacuum-every-day girl, Paul vacuums every two days or so, but he also mops all the time, so the floors are nice and clean. I can't complain, but things still rankle ha.
Ah well, I've been sitting long enough, have to get up and stretch, the leg gets so tight and painful...you all have a good day. I know I will. Sonja and Kaia are coming over, and Kathryn with Achilles, Rhys, Jamie, and Ellis...Kathryn is bringing dinner...all the fixings for grilled chicken street tacos...:)
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