A Typical Suburbanite Mom

I finally came up with something that describes me for my blog name. Now my friend told me that I am not typical but I like it because I am not. I do live in the suburbs now and I have the two kids and the two cars, two cats, two TVs, two computers, so in that respect I am typical. However I hate Wal-mart, as the same friend says "The Evil Empire", I hate large crowds, freak out if to many things go on at once and have one of the most convoluted families. I hate the color pink but love the color brown. I love dressing up but hate going places to show it off. I am just a contradiction. This is just me and this is how I am.

The dining room redo has begun

I love my house, but does it really have to cost so much to get it the way I like. We celebrated or more like recognized our one year anniversary in our house at the end of March. So far both the kids rooms have been pained, my craft room has been painted and the living room is all but done, just needs new floors.

With that in mind it was time to tackle a new room, I wanted to do the downstairs bathroom. A little ambitious I know but I wanted to do something that included more then painting. The money had to go to painting the outside of the house instead. We had peeling paint and boards coming up so it was a must.

I was thinking that it would be awhile until I started another room. Then Miss Flower Lily of the deathly night was caught using the room for something other then an eating place. I knew it was time to pull up the carpet, so I thought that I might as well do the whole room.

The bad news Scott got in trouble at school, the good news is the trouble at school equals housework. He pulled off most of the top layer of the wallpaper in the dining room. I then proceed behind him to wet down the bottom layer and just pull it right off the wall. Never have I had wallpaper come down so easily. It has been like peeling a band aid off. There are a few spots that stick but for the most part it just comes right off the wall.

I still need to pick the colors for the room and the fabric that will go along the top but I have a general idea of what I want.

It's been a long time

Yes, I know it's been more then a year since I last blogged but a couple of my co-workers told me I need to again. I am not sure what they want me to say exactly but hey just for the heck of it I figured I would.

At the end of February we went to Washington DC on vacation and had a wonderful time. We visited 5 or 6 different Smithsonian Museums, Arlington Cemetery, the Capitol building, the Lincoln and Washington Memorials and lot's more. We stayed at a hotel that was just two blocks away from the Air and Space Museum so we didn't even bother renting a car. It's a good thing we didn't though, the drivers there are nuts. They think that the horn is a warning that I am coming and you had better get out of my way. They have to have signs in the middle of the street that say Stop! For Pedestrians! One problem with walking every were though is when your husband (yes husband we got married in Nov) thinks that he knows were he is going so you can take a short cut through the city to get back to the hotel and he runs you right into the freeway. We had to back track several blocks, but the good thing was that we found a Starbucks right around the corner from our hotel!

I finished the Living Room in our house, we still have the pretty natures retreat color on the wall but now we have a cream colored wall fabric on the lower part that has green leaves on it. I also changed out the light fixtures and the switches. I am getting pretty good at this home improvement stuff. I started working on the dining room tonight. Most of the wallpaper came down pretty good but know have to the hard job of steaming the rest. The good news is that the primer they used under the paper is good so it should come right off.

Anyways that's enough though to fingers for me for one night. I will leave you with a random picture for now. This was taken at Thanksgiving when my folks came down to visit. Three Generations. :)