I’m sorry. It’s been
a while. Life has been busy.
This last year was spent visiting family and friends, working on the
house, playing with the pony, working in the yard… Jim and I made efforts to continue doing all
the things we did prior to being homeowners, but man! that mortgage payment
every month isn’t the only all-consuming thing.
We’re entirely loving our house, however. No complaints. Well, no major
complaints. So here’s a quick catch-up.
Last summer we went to West Virginia to go camping and
ATVing with some friends. Had a
BLAST. Would love to do it again,
too. Had a beautiful spot by a really
pretty stream, campfires, mudding with ATVs, sleeping in tents, cooking over
the fire, target shooting.  |
| butterflies by the stream |
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| our ride on the trails - super fun! |
Then at the beginning of fall, Mom and I went to Pittsburgh
to see the big Rubber Duck floating in the Allegheny River.
We saw where Granny lived as a young adult,
visited the grave of my great-grandparents (Mom’s grandparents), and had a
great trip. This was during the
government shutdown, however, so we were quite irritated to have had the chance
to visit the Flight 93 National Memorial and not be able to drive in. We (cough, cough) trespassed with several
other visitors anyways and walked a fair ways into the memorial, but sadly didn’t
spend nearly enough time there. We were
able to pay our respects, however.
Then came doctor’s appointments, Thanksgiving, Christmas,
New Year’s, Jim’s 35th birthday, more doctor’s appointments… I threw my first ever party for Jim’s
birthday. It was a lot of work (and I’m
so glad to have had the help from my awesome Mom), but I nailed it and everyone
seemed to have a good time. It was kinda
funny in that it was supposed to be a surprise party, but Jim ended up
scheduling a shooting weekend with his boss, out of town, so I had to spill the
beans because my diversions weren’t working.
He ended up going for the shooting weekend several weekends later (and
had a great time).
We had the winter that never quit. It literally seemed like we had a snow storm
every week or two with bitterly cold temperatures. I slept quite a bit through this winter. Growing a baby is exhausting! I tried to ride Sniper as long as possible,
but only made it to about 4 months before I had to stop. It wasn’t that huge of a loss, however, because
the weather was so crummy. I do miss
seeing his big brown eyes, though.
Jim ripped out all the drywall in our basement this
winter. It started with an intent to
just remove the paneling from the drywall to see how easy (or hard) it was
going to be to repair the drywall from pulling the paneling off. Then we could repair the walls, and paint,
and see what we could do with the extra space (home office!, play area!). Instead, we found a LOT more mold than we
thought was down there. In part because
of the bun-in-the-oven and my asthma, Jim went on a mission to rip.out.everything. And he did.
And I have to say, our house has lost that musty odor that was annoying
the heck out of me all the time. Of
course, now the home office resides in the guest room. And we’ve got plenty of time to figure out a
play area (right?). The honey-do list is
ginormous. We’ve finally got the baby’s
room ready for painting, but that’s where that stands.
The current project is a complete overhaul of
the main bathroom (which started today).
I’m so glad it’s finally spring, though. Of course, we all know that spring will only
last about two weeks before summer comes, but the temperatures are wonderful
and everything is starting to bloom (achoo!).
So in a nutshell, everything goes. J
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