WATCH OUT! It's a landslide!

My life has become a landslide.  I touch one thing, and several other things start to fall, and then all the falling things start to accumulate, and then BAAMMM we have a landslide of things rolling, rolling, and rolling.

Here is Carter’s new room.  This is where the landslide began.  It looks pretty good, all things considered, but it isn’t done yet.  The headboard needs to be tackled and there are some “decorative” touches which require Mom’s attention.

  

 

 

 

 

               Unfortunately, this is the girls’ room:

This is where all the extra “stuff” started rolling when Carter’s room was being tackled.  And then we decided to have a garage sale, and more “stuff” came out of the cupboards and closets and hiding places and also landed in here.  We managed to paint the closet – which required us to take all of the “stuff” out of said closet and put it into the landslide debris that now fills the room.

Poor Maddie is sleeping on a mattress in my bedroom, along with all the “baby paraphernalia” I’ve been accumulating for McKenna. (READ:  Also a MESS!)  Included in the paraphernalia piles are bottles I just found out have BPA in them!  YEAH!  Now I need more BPA-free bottles! (READ: Dripping with sarcasm.)

The hallway, or as it is now being referred to as “the storage way,” is a slalom course through bedding that no longer fits the beds we own, dirty clothes, things for Goodwill, boxes of diapers, an unbuilt baby playpen and several Polly Pocket people who seemed to have taken up residence there.

This landslide is now rolling down the stairs into a heaping pile on the landing, where you might find wooden letters to spell out the girls’ names, a ridiculously huge box of baby wipes, an eclectic assortment of books and a handful of wooden paint stir sticks.  Odd, right?  Well, I can explain the baby wipes - COSTCO - see them on the bottom right?

Somewhere in the house is one new bedspread for the girls – the other is still in transit…I think…along with the other twin size bed frame. 

While the landslide keeps flowing through the house, we were blessed with an amazing gift last week!  Our friend Brian B. and a co-worker, Scott M., are going to build the corner unit for the girls’ room.  They are so sweet!  I just couldn’t justify paying $550-$650 for the actual Pottery Barn Kids version.  I think the DIY version will be MUCH better.  I’ll take a picture once it is painted and installed…if we ever get the landslide under control and make room for it.

Just to add insult to injury, I was taken out of play by the nefarious, notorious, debilitating - common cold!  Seriously?  I have too much to do, and not enough time to do it in! 

Hope you are all having a better week than me!

Love,  Marlo