I'm Lonely and Satisfied!

You know, after 4 years of being a mom, I must say that I've become quite accustomed to it! My kids and hubby have been gone all weekend and I REALLY miss them! I get really lonely being by myself! I've hardly known what to do. I thought I would have the time of my life, but I've spent most of the day wandering around the internet and looking at the clock to see how much longer till they get here! What a boob I am!

However, on the bright side...I have gotten a tremendous amount of work done this weekend!!! My mom and sisters came up to Idaho Falls this weekend to help me finish some painting jobs! It has been SO fantastic! I can't believe how great my house looks and how clean and fresh and happy it is! I can hardly believe this is the same dingy little house that we moved into nearly 3 months ago now! When we moved in, everything was either painted dirty greyish off-white or manure green...even all the mouldings and doors! When Nels and I did the final walk-through of the house we got to the basement and I genuinely was so nauseated that I was looking for a place to throw up!!! How sad it is that the only thing that kept me from doing so was the fact that the only place to puke was in basement bathroom that the previous owner had admitted hadn't been cleaned in SEVEN years! (Okay, she said it hadn't been USED in 7 years...Be that as it may, they had 3 kids and the bathroom HAD been used, so I KNOW that what she meant was CLEANED!) We now have a sweet little home that still needs a lot of loving work, but is clean and happy and so warm and wonderful! We are SO happy here! I feel SO satisfied with the progress that we've made and would like to thank Melissa, Wendie, and my sweet mother for loving me so much that they would come help me with such a big project! We were able to get done in one day what would have literally taken me probably 2 weeks! We had to set up scaffolding on the stairs and it was impossible to get up and down them, so you can guess how well that would have gone with our little family! Thank you so much!
I know that it's hard to get a good idea of what it really looks like! It's hard to take pictures in a little room, but I think you all can use your imaginations!

You know, I really should have done the dishes before I took this picture! Ha! It looks like I DO have a few things to do in the next few hours before Nels and the girls come home! I'll take the time to post a few more pictures over the next few weeks of our home so that you can all get a look at it! I want to finish the baby's room first!