The wood floor installers arrived today to begin the installation of a beautiful 5" hand-scraped hickory wood floor in our great room. I am uber excited to see the green berber carpet go bye bye!
It should be finished by Friday (should be!). It is the first really major cosmetic step of our "flood" remodel.
Carpet is ordered and should be installed by end of August (hopefully?!).
It's looking like it will be nice! I know, I know, pictures. I'm working on it.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Upcoming travel.
Daddy-J and I are going on a fancy-schmancy cruise. And when I say fancy-schmancy, I mean REALLY fancy-schmancy... SIX star (who knew there was such a thing?). The cruise line is called Silversea. You can check it out here.
We're headed off on an 8-day western mediterranean cruise, leaving Monte Carlo and arriving in Barcelona, with stops in Sardinia, southern France, and Majorca/Minorca. I cannot even tell you how much I am looking forward to this!
In true Casa Llamedos style, of course, I have done a little shopping for the trip. Daddy-J needed some non-schlubby-American clothes. I refuse to go on this trip and have him wear tatty shorts and yucky t-shirts. So I got him some lovely plaid bermuda shorts and nice collared shirts to go with. He pretty much hates them, but he looks SOOOOOOO good! Ask my sister... she saw him when we went out to dinner the other night, and he was looking awesome!
There are also two formal nights on the cruise. Daddy-J does not own any formal wear. So we discussed the options (he wanted to hide in the room!) and decided that he would like to have a sharp, white dinner jacket. So that's what I got him. I hope it fits... I ordered online, as usual. Got a white dinner jacket, tux shirt, and black bow tie (and no, I didn't get the kind you have to tie yourself... neither of us could manage that!). I even bought him a little present of black onyx studs, square ones, set in silver, so he wouldn't look like he rented the usual tux and had those awful plastic studs!
I can't wait for it all to arrive so he can try it on. Aside from what I know will be the miserable look on his face, he is going to look so sharp!
It's like playing dressup with a real-live boy doll! I love my boy doll! LOL! I promise I will post pictures when the time comes.
We're headed off on an 8-day western mediterranean cruise, leaving Monte Carlo and arriving in Barcelona, with stops in Sardinia, southern France, and Majorca/Minorca. I cannot even tell you how much I am looking forward to this!
In true Casa Llamedos style, of course, I have done a little shopping for the trip. Daddy-J needed some non-schlubby-American clothes. I refuse to go on this trip and have him wear tatty shorts and yucky t-shirts. So I got him some lovely plaid bermuda shorts and nice collared shirts to go with. He pretty much hates them, but he looks SOOOOOOO good! Ask my sister... she saw him when we went out to dinner the other night, and he was looking awesome!
There are also two formal nights on the cruise. Daddy-J does not own any formal wear. So we discussed the options (he wanted to hide in the room!) and decided that he would like to have a sharp, white dinner jacket. So that's what I got him. I hope it fits... I ordered online, as usual. Got a white dinner jacket, tux shirt, and black bow tie (and no, I didn't get the kind you have to tie yourself... neither of us could manage that!). I even bought him a little present of black onyx studs, square ones, set in silver, so he wouldn't look like he rented the usual tux and had those awful plastic studs!
I can't wait for it all to arrive so he can try it on. Aside from what I know will be the miserable look on his face, he is going to look so sharp!
It's like playing dressup with a real-live boy doll! I love my boy doll! LOL! I promise I will post pictures when the time comes.
Monday, August 3, 2009
Is this thing on? *tap* *tap*
I'm sure anyone who's out there (is there anyone out there?) has noticed I haven't blogged much lately. Hello? Two posts in July. What's up with that?
Well, it has been a great summer. Busy, but not so busy that I couldn't have posted. I just kinda got writer's block, I guess.
The kids and I have enjoyed a very unscheduled summer, with no set activities, just kinda going with the flow. I have had the summer off work for the most part, which has been nice.
We are in the midst of slowly putting the house back together after our flood in April. And I have made some progress on my decluttering, though never as much as I'd like!
My quest for the latter half of the year is to get this house in order and set up my version of "routines" so that I don't wind up feeling so darned overwhelmed all the time at all there is to do to upkeep this household. Mainly I am paring down our "stuff" that seems to be everywhere. A room at a time, a closet at a time, a space at a time, a corner at a time, a shelf at a time. Less stuff means more peace for me. More peace for me means more time to spend just doing stuff with my kids, which, I have learned this summer, is what I want to be doing.
I have always been intimidated by the idea of homeschooling, and I don't think I want to be a full-time homeschooler, at least not for my kids' whole school careers. But this summer has shown me that we can, in fact, live life together for the most part and not drive me insane! We are doing more and more to work together to run the household, which believe it or not is helping! And we manage to find something every day to look up on the 'net or in a book because we don't know what it is or how it works. We have the most interesting discussions. This, to me, is what learning is all about, and I'm loving it.
I have always wanted to take a year or two and travel around with the kids, maybe in an RV, maybe overseas, and the schooling aspect and the 24/7 togetherness of it has always been a little scary to me. But I have learned this summer that it would be ok if we were all together pretty much all the time. And that's a good thing for me to learn.
Well, it has been a great summer. Busy, but not so busy that I couldn't have posted. I just kinda got writer's block, I guess.
The kids and I have enjoyed a very unscheduled summer, with no set activities, just kinda going with the flow. I have had the summer off work for the most part, which has been nice.
We are in the midst of slowly putting the house back together after our flood in April. And I have made some progress on my decluttering, though never as much as I'd like!
My quest for the latter half of the year is to get this house in order and set up my version of "routines" so that I don't wind up feeling so darned overwhelmed all the time at all there is to do to upkeep this household. Mainly I am paring down our "stuff" that seems to be everywhere. A room at a time, a closet at a time, a space at a time, a corner at a time, a shelf at a time. Less stuff means more peace for me. More peace for me means more time to spend just doing stuff with my kids, which, I have learned this summer, is what I want to be doing.
I have always been intimidated by the idea of homeschooling, and I don't think I want to be a full-time homeschooler, at least not for my kids' whole school careers. But this summer has shown me that we can, in fact, live life together for the most part and not drive me insane! We are doing more and more to work together to run the household, which believe it or not is helping! And we manage to find something every day to look up on the 'net or in a book because we don't know what it is or how it works. We have the most interesting discussions. This, to me, is what learning is all about, and I'm loving it.
I have always wanted to take a year or two and travel around with the kids, maybe in an RV, maybe overseas, and the schooling aspect and the 24/7 togetherness of it has always been a little scary to me. But I have learned this summer that it would be ok if we were all together pretty much all the time. And that's a good thing for me to learn.
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