Criminy...

It's been a while. Me and the girls are finally back in North Carolina. We've been here about a week. I've been working my butt off every day trying to make this house presentable. It's a beautiful house, it really is, it's just that it looked like my grandmother lived here. It was built in 1995 and has had NO updating since then. The previous owners took really good care of it though, I will say that.



Anyway, the kitchen was the biggest issue. The wallpaper, oh my gosh, the wallpaper was so freakin ugly! It was gray and white vertical stripes with a beauty of a border. Teal and burgandy vegetables. Not good. The cabinets weren't bad, I just didn't like the color of them so much. And the appliances were butt ugly.
I tore down all the wallpaper and painted the walls a light tan color (totally not like me, I like really bold colors, but......) I painted the cabinets black. I LOVE them now. I went and bought some antique iron hardware and just that made a huge difference. We bought a new stainless steel fridge and dishwasher. The kitchen totally needs a stainless steel range and granite countertops, but we can't afford that yet.

This picture was taken before I finished painting the bottom cabinets....and it was taken with my cell phone, so it really doesn't do it any justice.

Anyways, that's what I've been doing. Donnie bought him a car yesterday. The Commander was killing us on gas with him driving it to work every day, so he found a little Ford Focus that gets double the gas mileage the Jeep does.

Mar starts school on Monday. We went and met her teacher Thursday night and Marlys all of a sudden forgot how to speak. I'm sure she'll talk their ears off soon enough though.


So in a nutshell, that's our life the past month.