It's been a long haul since the new year actually started and updates have been few and far between, but now things are starting to get back to normal.
Early in January, we had a major family crisis to attend to... most of the people that read this blog will know what I'm referring to... all is well again and everyone is back where they belong :) (I'm not being obtuse on purpose, I just figure that I'm not posting all sorts of details on the internet for any and all to read!)
I spent much of January and a good part of February out of town, attending to our family crisis and I returned home last weekend with Jessica in tow. She's on reading week and we're enjoying having her home again!!
Another change that occurred over the last few weeks... Jess and Kyle broke up. Again, I'm not going into any details, just suffice it to say that Jess is doing fine... just a minor bump on life's road. She's a strong, resilient young lady and is moving forward with her life!
Things around FHH are fine... Shawn did a great job looking after all the furry retarded kids, the house and himself, in my absence. My goat babies grew while I was away and they no longer have the baby look... they are really starting to look more like adult goats. The dogs faired fine, even the neurotic Buddy dog... they were both happy to see me when I returned home :)
My sister's goats finally started popping out babies left, right and center... I did manage to see them a week or so ago and they are just adorable!! I would've liked to steal a couple under my coat and bring them to Ottawa with me, but some of the little buggers scream loudly when you pick them up!! Maybe next time I'll have to tuck a quiet one or two into my coat pocket! :)
Really makes me wanna have some goat babies.... who knows, maybe eventually... just not yet... we're not set up for the two we have, hardly!
We have a ton of snow again here... we had a ton.. then it all melted and now we have about the same again... thank goodness it melted in there or I don't know how we'd be managing these days!!
Now that I'm home again, I'm starting to be able to think about making plans again... plans that are farther in the future than about 5 minutes. This is a real accomplishment! I started making notes of how I want to rearrange some rooms... move some furniture... just generally change things so they WORK around here.
These plans also include going through some of our stuff again and reorganizing, getting rid of stuff we don't need or want and that sort of thing. We did a dramatic go through before we moved last summer, but there were some things that we kept "just in case" that it turns out are not needed and are just taking up space and cluttering our house.
I'm kinda excited to have plans again... it doesn't even matter at this point if they happen right away... just being able to think in that space again makes me happy.
Part of the plan includes us getting a bed frame for our bed. We had a bed frame before we moved, (we had made it, twas one of our first projects) but we decided not to move it with us. We decided it was time for something different and LIGHTER (it was way over engineered and very heavy!) but we so far are still sleeping on our mattress on the floor... you know, like students. *eye roll* Very OLD students.
After contemplating many options, we're considering buying a bed frame from IKEA... we still have to go look at it in person and decide whether we still like it or not, but at least its a start! For anyone interested, its this one.
It matches some of the other furniture and accessories we have and its a reasonable price. We'll see if it still appeals to us when we see it in person. A bed frame like that gives us the added bonus of under the bed storage, which is now just wasted space. Ideally, I would like to get some of the plastic under the bed storage boxes that IKEA sells and put all the sewing fabric in them and tuck them neatly under the bed. I think that would be a good fabric storage solution. Easy to get to, yet out of sight and out of the way.
See? Things change and yet, they are all still the same as always.
One more comment that to many of you will seem random and bordering on insane (my apologies!) and will make sense to a few others...
Team Buttercup Rocks! Yay Team! ;)
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