Catching Up! (5)

Jan 13th...

Our 2nd priority after the computer was (for sanity reasons, as well as my butt starting to hurt from our lawn chairs, ) A couch! We decided with 2 small kids, we didn't want anything fancy. We weren't worried about the look or the functionality, we just wanted a plain jane, good for sitting on, couch. I think that mindset served us well because our first stop was Big Lots to find something cheap and we found the couch of our dreams! I didn't even know I had a "couch of my dreams" until I saw this bad boy! It's humongous and goes around a corner, so it looks really nice in our living room. Plus it's microfiber so grape juice beads up and rolls right off!

Jan 14th...

Laundry! The piles and piles of dirty clothes are now piles and piles of clean folded clothes because the kids still don't have dressers! It feels so good to be finally turning this house into our home, with all the everything a home really needs. I went to the laundromat one day because I couldn't take it anymore. Derrick was home, so I left the kids (I'm no idiot) and headed off to wash our clothes. Can you believe it cost $2 per washer load!?! I was shocked, and those were the old ricketys, the big fancy ones were $4.50!!! Not to mention drying, one quarter for 6 minutes...my goodness. I got a lot of my book read (Dean Koontz' Frankentein Book 3, read them, you won't regret it!) and I heard my first genuine Tennessee accent! But those weren't enough reward for me...I didn't go back.

Jan 15th...

I took this picture because this is literally what Derrick and I did all day today! We took turns all day long. One of us actually being a parent, keeping up with Cael, feeding and changing Averi, cooking, washing the dishes, etc. While the other one slipped blissfully into the world of Sims where days only last a few minutes and job promotions come everyday as long as you stay happy! As addicted as we let ourselves get, and for as much fun as were having...we looked at each other before bed and just shook our heads. It was one of those days where you look at the clock and go "Midnight!?!? I haven't even had breakfast yet..."