Making Progress

I love it when motivation finally hits us! We have had a lot going on lately, but it's all stuff that we have talked about doing forever. We bought a new kitchen table, which was delivered last Wednesday (thank you, Lisa!). It does look better in the space than the other one, plus it has two leaves so it will accommodate more people. Don started work on the kool deck again this weekend. It's going to look really great when it's done. I never knew what a difference kool deck makes in heat reduction. When I walk on the old sections my feet burn up, but on the freshly painted areas it feels so much cooler. Kool deck in Las Vegas is a very good thing! We had a guy come today to look at our shower in our bedroom. We haven't used it for nine months, because of a leak in the tiles. Finally, we are looking at getting it fixed. I love you all, but I wasn't very excited about showering downstairs with the whole gang around! I guess it couldn't have been any worse than sharing the bathroom over Memorial Day, although I did walk in on that old guy taking a crap! (Ew! Yuck! Gross!) The thing that I am most excited about is our new flooring. We're having wood laminate installed in the family room on Tuesday. It's going to look so good. We plan to use it in the other downstairs living space, but we have to knock out a half wall and do more prep work, so it can wait until later. We have a nice house, but some things just need to be updated a little to reflect our lifestyle and to make it look a little more modern. We are no where near done getting ready for the Fourth. We still have to replace some light fixtures (I haven't been able to find any sconces that Don and I agree on, so we'll have to live with Miami Vice for a little while longer!), weed the backyard (Help!), put up twinkle lights on the patio and I would love to at least clean up the garden even if we don't have time to re-do it. Oh, yeah, I need to finish trying to make my craft room presentable so people can actually crash in there. (My) Lisa will be so proud of me, because last week I actually unearthed the floor and my chaise lounge! Very exciting. The good news is that we have almost every night free this week, and we don't have to do Mass next weekend. (Although, I am looking forward to Jessica's birthday.) This is a whole lot of change in a very short amount of time; I'm just waiting for my change freak-out to happen any day now (mostly because of my hair, which I'm still trying to get used to). Even though we don't usually have the luxery of Time, I feel very fortunate that we are able to have and do nice things. Most people don't worry about how to replace Miami Vice sconces let alone have them! God and, by extension, IBM have been very good to us lately.