home sweet home

from one to the next.

 

we are finally back in our own sweet home after a week with my parents.  there is still a slight twinge of poly in the air, but the floors are dry, the doors are open, and the house is a wreck.

we couldnt be happier.

its {almost always} funny how God chooses to work in our lives...little did i know all i needed was a good long week at my parents house to pull me back from the brink of a nervous breakdown.  not to sound over dramatic or anything, but it really was just what the doctor ordered.  one week was all it took to bring me from a crazed-maxed-out-psycho-mom to a less-than-crazed-almost-maxed-out-psycho-mom.  its refreshing ;)



how was living with my parents again you ask?
well let me tell you - it took a whole lot of adjusting and compromise.
for instance, i had to get used to all my meals being cooked for me again.
including breakfast.
it was tough.
and somehow clean, folded laundry found itself at the base of the stairs when i went up for bed each night.
i didnt do it.
i have no idea how it got there but it did.
and that took some adjusting.
and we had to compromise on whose turn it was to go soothe the fussing baby/three year old.
i stubbornly gave in just a few times and kept my seat warm and red wine handy on the screened porch.
i know.  ROUGH.

i probably worked a full 40 hours last week and am finally at a point with work that i can breathe and return to some semblance of the mother i want to be.



heck im sitting here blogging and thats a fresh change from the past month!


so just to recap the past couple weeks, there has been a lot of this

a whole lotta this

details removed to protect the payin' people

some precious moments of this

a celebration of my birth

 

a trip here

some practicing {and nearly mastering!} this

 

some practicing and it-better-not-be-anytime-soon-ing this

 

a bit of new life peaking through

...all because of this
before:

after:

after first coat of custom mixed dark walnut + ebony stain {who knew our floors had GRAIN to them?}

after tinting the first coat of poly with more ebony bc the floors didnt properly absorb the ebony stain, they are still wet in this pic {finished finished pic to come}

SO worth it

and this time, this time i dont plan on being away for another two weeks after i claim that im "back".  i fear there arent many of you out there reading anymore, as blogs that never have new posts arent that fun to read, but i plan on hopping back on my routine-blogging freight train starting now.

thank you to those of you who still are, and thanks to my parents for a memorable, relaxing, therapeutic week.

and if you have a sec, hop on over to mobile bay magazines website and read my latest contribution, on making your home your own.