13 Sundays

YIKES!! Art works 6 days a week-YEAR ROUND (yuck!) - and during busy season it is seven days a week. With things starting to leaf out and slow down around here, I have started counting down to AJ's arrival by Sundays. As in, "Hey Art, we only have 13 Sundays left to get EVERYTHING together!" But then you factor in the Sundays that we will not be doing anything related to the house, and that leaves us with 9 or 10 Sundays. I think I am officially freaked out. When will this "nesting" stuff start to kick in??

Oh and I didn't forget about the new kitchen pictures, I just need to tidy up before I take and post them. Hope everyone enjoys the BEAUTIFUL weekend (okay well, Saturday) we are going to have; I will be at the beach for a hair and facial appointment hopefully followed by a nice stroll on the boardwalk with the fam.

I was recruited!

This weekend we got anxious to move the baby furniture into the room, so Art and I did it one night by ourselves. No worries, there was no heavy lifting involved for me (though I do think it was not smart for Art's back). Art would lift a corner of the furniture and my job was to place a carpet slider under it, then I had to guide the furniture while he pushed/pulled and whatnot. I was exhausted, so I am sure Art was super exhausted, but it is done now. Well the baby's room anyway; the rest of the upstairs is another post. I still have not put up pictures of the new kitchen, but I plan on taking some this weekend. So, I will leave you with some before pictures. I totally forgot to take the before pictures until after the work was started, but I think you will get the idea of how awful it was!

This is the old lighting fixture

Here is pea-green countertops (the backsplash was the same pea-green formica) and the lovely gold floor. All circa 1970s. The picture does not fully show the ugliness!

Time is a flyin'

Holy cow! I can't believe it has been almost a month since my last post. CRAZY!! Thing are slowly getting done in the house. Art's Mom helped us clean, no scratch that, SCRUB the kitchen from top to bottom so that we could put things away. Then she packaged up for storage the stuff I no longer use and put dishes and kitchen supplies away where I wanted them. It was a huge lifesaver and took both Bev and Art 4 days of working in the evenings from about 6-10pm every night. They wouldn't let me help, so I had to sit at the table and tell them where stuff went, but I did get to cut the shelf liners! haha. Now the random stuff around the house is all garage stuff, but it is busy season and Art has been swamped so he has not been able to trek it outside. Now we have to tackle the upstairs and move all the furniture. The weekend we were going to do it my Dad got sick, so we lost our helper. Unfortunately for us (but good for my sister), they will be swamped helping Jen with the move to the new place, so I guess we will have to recruit more help. All in all, it is coming together and I am very happy with the progress. Hard to believe AJ will be here in 97 days!!