In a Much Calmer State of Mind

As of Saturday afternoon, FIL is no longer living in our house. There are still tons of his boxes in our guest room, which we're trying to decide what to do with. The boys don't want to lug them over to the new place only to have to move them again in 6 months once he (hopefully) gets into the Veteran's Home. I totally understand their point, but there is NO room in my house. Haven't I sacraficed enough these past 8 months? Can't I finally have my guest room back so that I can do what most normal mom to be's do & set up a nursery for my baby? Apparently not.

I've decided to let it go throughout December only because I need a staging area for all the Christmas stuff anyhow, so I'll use that room for that and start painting & tearing up carpet in January. But my husband had better have a plan to get all those boxes out of there within the month!

Despite my annoyance over that, I am truly in a much better frame of mind right now. I feel as if there are hundreds of things to do over the next few weeks, and I really need to do some deep cleaning around here, but being in the third trimester now, I know I have to take things easy. So I've made a nice long list of everything to do & I've broken them up into days. Obviously the biggest priorities right now are getting everything mopped today (seriously, it's been way too long since I've mopped my dining room!), finishing up the out of town Christmas shopping & shipping everything out, taking our annual Christmas card picture & getting the cards out. I feel pretty far behind on a lot of things right now.

My goal for the next two days is also to finally pull out all the Christmas decorations & get this house in a festive mood! Oh, and yes, my new living room sofa & chair arrived on Friday & it's beautiful!!! I love feeling like my house is slowly coming together, despite the ton of work it still needs.