Update of the past few days

Well we picked up Richard in Atlanta on Friday, then headed over to Birmingham to the Apple store so that they could fix his phone. Then we headed home. It was a very long day. We didn't make it to IKEA, but I will next time even if I have to go over a day earlier.

On Saturday we went over to Tupelo to go find him new sneakers for P.T. as one of his students took his other pair. We also got Caleb and Rachel new footed pajamas at The Children's Place-I do like the clothing in there, I had also bought Rachel new tights at the store in B'Ham the night before.

On Sunday we made sure that everything clothing, uniform related was washed and he packed up his duffel. Sunday night we ran into town to get swap some things in and out of the garage stall, and then we got some Chinese food. Came home and the children all went to bed and we watched Casino Royale-pretty good movie. Daniel Craig should make a great James Bond.
Monday we got up really early to head to Tupelo to the airport for his flight to Boston, but he missed it and they only had room on the 5pm flight. So we spent the day over there, not really doing much. But I didn't want to drive home to drive back over. He finally flew off at 5.36 and I don't remember what time it was when he got there, but I was in bed. Around 9.30 CST, told him that I loved him and I was going to bed.

Tuesday all of us except Rachel had our teeth cleaning appointment. Everyone got good reports except Aric and Matthew. Aric needed a baby tooth pulled and a filling. Matthew still needs sealant on some back teeth and now a filling. Unfortunately our Dentist has been trying to get the sealant done for 3 years now, Matthew has a small mouth and a highly sensitive gag reflex, but enjoys going to the Dentist. So appointments were made for Matthew to go to a different Dentist on 26 Jan, and Aric for Wed for the extraction.

Wednesday we went over for Aric to have his tooth pulled, no problems. We got breakfast on the way home and he will go back on Monday to get the filling done.

I have no intention of getting in the van until then either.

We have had our van for 7 years this coming Sept, and the drivers seat is dying a fast death. My tail bone is killing me with being in that chair so much over the past week. Almost every where we go is at least 30 minutes away or more. We are currently looking at finding a newer 15 passenger van, as ours is only an 8. We were given a bench to install that would make it a 12, but then we would have no storage space and I need my double stroller. And how would I get feed home? So for now we are making do with what we have and God willing, will be able to find something in the price range that we have set for our budget.

The boys and I are getting ready to move the kitchen table into town, it is my Mom's table that she bought in Germany before they come back from Dad's last tour over there. I am going to have to sand it, re stain it and then polyurethane it. Then I will get new fabric and padding and do all of the chairs and the benches and then give it back to her. We have been using it since we first moved up here in Nov '05.

I now have my table and we will probably need to get new benches made, because I think that our table is a little bit taller and I don't know if the current benches will work or not. We are going to turn our third bedroom into our dinning room for the time being as our kitchen is just too small and with where I need to keep the deep freezer and the fridge it makes it hard to walk through and get around the table. We are also looking at getting a smaller chest freezer to keep more milk, meat and bigger items in.

I am also going to have my Mom's handyman come out and give me an estimate on adding a master bathroom onto the house, we really need a second bath and this way when we go about fixing up the main bath we will still have facilities to use.

My idea is to redo the back room space to include a large shower(with double shower heads, the boys tend to double up anyway this would make it easier), double sinks, laundry area & family closet, and pantry storage. The bathtub will be in the master bath as I really would like to get a big tub, that I can soak in. And really after about the age of 2 they all take showers anyway.

Once that is done then I will make the master bedroom a little bit larger, by taking out the closet and pantry space. That will add at least 100 square feet to our room.

We are still looking at the best options for adding on or building new, right now I am thinking that we are both leaning towards just building new else where on our land. There is so much that needs to be done to this house that it will probably be cheaper in the long run to just start over. We would probably use this as our school house, and build a simple larger cabin up in the woods.
Something with three bedrooms, two baths, a great kitchen & pantry, and living room, maybe a sewing/craft room too. Then we would still have this house to use as our school house, but it would also have two guest rooms & living room. I would probably take out the kitchen as it would not really be needed.