The living room has had traditional blinds since we moved in. I hated them. I had this gorgeous big window and horrible boring blinds in front of it. I’ve browsed curtains before. At a recent trip to IKEA I made myself pick something out.
I quite like them. The exposure is all off, just to get a better look at the fun curtains I found.
We finished our remodel! My last step was painting this old door in the bedroom. It has been left outside and had lots of peeling paint. I left it a bit distressed, but not so shabby as it was before.
It’s been over a year of construction. It’s very nice to have it done. We’ve moved in all the furniture and we are enjoying it.
Now we get to catch up on the projects that we’ve neglected: like the holes in the ceiling upstairs. (The roof leaked. The roof has been fixed, but we still need to fix the ceiling.)
We love the Daddy at our home. It was a pretty low key Father’s Day.
I helped Curtis dress up in the Armor of God.
And we found out the kids got their picture in the Friend next month. We haven’t actually go the magazine yet. Our subscription expired. I guess I’ll have to go buy a copy.
I like to declutter stuff. Sometimes I hold on to things too long, but I’m getting better at seeing what is really worth having. (This book is really good too.)
Lately I’ve been thinking about decluttering my life. That’s a lot harder. I put an internet filter on my modem that tracks my phone and computer use. I spend a lot more time than I realize online. I get tired/stressed (which can happen a lot with three young boys) and turn to useless media.
I also try to do too much at a time and then don’t do anything. The maintenance of a house and raising children keeps me busy for the majority of the day. I really only have a few hours of flex time everyday: but I often attempt to do far more in a day or a week than I have time for. Often I’m overwhelmed by it all that I end up, once again, turning to useless internet.
So my goals for decluttering my life are:
Peter did not want to go to swim lessons today. He mentioned it quite a bit for the 24 hours between lessons. Today was the day they were going off the diving board. It scared him A LOT.
We went. The fated time came, and he headed over with his class. One girl jumped off. Another sat on the edge for five minutes and finally was escorted off the board crying. It was Peter’s turn. He went the edge. He fretted. He got off. Another girl jumped after some deliberation. Peter’s turn again. He walked to the edge…and jumped! I was so proud of him for facing his fears and doing it!
Curtis also went off. He just went for it. It was a little unexpected, but Curtis is pretty good at surprising me.
Instructions are available here.
I didn’t bring my camera along. So this is a less than ideal phone picture in quite a beautiful place.
During the same adventure, I lost my planner. Tears where shed. I don’t think there was anything that important on it, just a lot of writing that wasn’t anywhere else. I had it in my shopping car in Ikea, and after I got home I didn’t have it anymore. I either left it in the cart, or it could have also been stolen in the 15 minutes I left the cart by itself to go pick up my kids.
Sunday night, there was a bit of wind that knocked something over outside. I went to investigate and as soon as I got outside I could tell something was werid. It wasn’t currently stormy. It was actually rather calm. Not too far away was a large strom cloud. I felt like a tornado was coming. We don’t have tornados where I am.
Less than five minutes later the storm hit. There wasn’t a tornado. But there was a whole lot of rain and quarter sized hail. It’s the worst hail storm I’ve ever seen. The rain came gushing down our horrible driveway and flooded the garage and ran out the back into the garden shed.
The garden was tattered but alive. I’m not in a hurry to replant, the current plants still have good root systems so I’ll wait for them to bounce back. The garden might be a bit late this year, but that’s fine.
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