Whew, what a weekend. And, so you can stop reading now if you want, I don’t have any pictures of it, either. I’ll warn you, this is a long post. It really won’t hurt my feelings if you stop reading now.
Friday Jim re-imaged my computer. It had been slow, so very slow, for weeks now, and I was just plain tired of it. I told him that there was nothing on here that I wanted OTHER than my pictures. I can usually keep about a years worth of pictures on my computer before he needs to put them on the hard drive. Well, remember way back when I lost all of my pictures on the blog? Well, I vowed to get them all back up by the end of September, but that was 14 months ago. I don’t have ALL of them back up, but I do have a lot.
Needless to say, he wasn’t easily able to get them back on here so they are on the hard drive in the basement. My new goal is to have all of them back up by the time my maternity leave is over. That give me until March. Hopefully I can do it.
OK- back to the weekend. The reason that I don’t have any pictures isn’t because of my computer being re-imaged, it’s because I worked myself ragged this weekend and didn’t stop to take any. Here’s what I did (most of which felt like, at many time, should have sent me straight into labor).
I started out Saturday morning by taking the mattress off the queen iron bed in the big guest room and taking apart the bed. Now, this sounds like something that I shouldn’t be doing, but really, all I had to do was slide the mattress to the side and prop it against the wall. It’s not like I lifted the thing or anything. And taking apart the bed was easy. Next I vacuumed every square inch (with the exception of under both dressers) of that room.
Then Jim dragged that mattress and box spring down the hall and he took apart the full bed and mattress from guest room number two. He pulled that mattress and box spring into the big room, which is now James’s new room. We put together his new (old/antique) bed, added new sheets, comforter, and pillows, and someone had a ball jumping on his new bed.
Then we put together the iron bed that was in the hall in what was then guest room number two, but is now just the guest room. (Somewhere before that I vacuumed every square inch of that room, too. I did move the dresser though because it’s one of those antique dressers on wheels… made it easy.) Once that room was done and Jim took James to the store, I decided that I just didn’t like the way that it looked. I got those little orange mover men out and put them under the legs of the bed and muscled that bed around three different ways before I was satisfied. (This, as compared to moving the mattresses off the bed, is something that I probably shouldn’t have been doing, but Jim wasn’t home and even if he was, he probably would have said that it looked fine just the way it was, which it didn’t.) Then I put new sheets and comforter on it. The room looks great!
We also moved all of James’s things, with the exception of his clothes, into his new room. His train table, rug, and all of his toys… it was a task. But he loves it. It’s in no way what I envisioned, but for the time being, it will have to work. He likes it, and honestly, that is what matters right now. One of these days he’ll have bunk beds and his own dressers, not the dressers that were part of the guest room suite. It might be next summer, but it will happen.
In the meantime I washed sheets, comforters, and blankets galore. If it was on any bed before, it was washed this weekend. My new machine definitely got a run for it’s money this weekend. I am pretty sure that all items of bedding, whether new, old, or just folded up next to a bed, was washed.
Today I vacuumed every square inch of the baby’s room. I moved the crib, the dresser, the changing table, the book shelf, and the rocker and vacuumed under each one of those items. (Again, some easy, some not so easy. But I’m not in any pain, so all is good.) Everything looks great! Now it just needs a baby! (Well, I have a TON of other things to do like pull all of the clothes down from the attic, wash those, get the swing, bouncy seat, and whatever else is up there for him. That is just going to have to wait until after Thanksgiving though.)
What I did not get to was our bedroom. Jim painted our room last week and it looks great. I did iron the new curtains and got those hung, but that’s it. He measured the wall and went to Home Depot to buy the crown molding that he’s putting up. And he also bought wood for the washer and dryer stand that he’s building me. (long story… I’ll post pictures of that once it’s done, too.) I decided that it wouldn’t be wise for me to move any more stuff so I’m waiting on Jim to take the mattress off the bed so I can put the new bed skirt on, then put it back on for me so I can add the new sheets, comforter, and pillow shams. Then the room will ALMOST be done. I need to vacuum every square inch of this room, clean my bathroom (which is in DESPERATE need of a cleaning), and switch one antique dresser in this room out for an antique dresser in the guest room. Then, with the exception of the crown molding, this room will be done. Oh- and hang a mirror. THEN it will be done.
All of that and I was still able to squeeze a two hour nap into each day. I am also quite pleased to say that while James didn’t want to fall asleep in his new room last night, he did stay in there all night once I made the switch, AND he took a three hour nap in there this afternoon WITHOUT me! Woo Hoo! And, he went to bed in there tonight like a big boy, only calling me once because he couldn’t find his sea turtle. It was in my bed. He’s growing up!
OK, so I lied. Here is one picture of Jim and James in the garage this afternoon. They are putting together the stand that is going to go under my washer and dryer. Jim put hinges on the front so it opens up with storage underneath, and put the first coat of white paint on it. Not sure how he’s going to get the washer and dryer out of the laundry room, this in there, and then the washer and dryer back in, ON TOP, of this, but he’ll manage. I’ll supervise.
