No I Did Not Photoshop These Pictures!

I don't know if it is because warmer temperatures are in the air or if it all started with a lucky find at the local Goodwill, but the kids and I have been busy this last week.

The carpet in our den is old and frayed. It is a main thoroughfare for the house, it is 15 1/2 years old, and quite honestly it is threadbare:) But the den is one of our fullest rooms. There are four filled floor to ceiling bookshelves, three desks (one for me and one for each of the kids), a piano, a printer tower, a recumbent bike, and a couple of other smaller shelves. And since our domicile is overall on the small side, the thought of where we were going to put all of that stuff while new carpet was put down was a bit overwhelming and then of course there was the whole moving of the stuff. So, I found an area rug that covered the worst of the bare spots for 20.00! And now I can look at my den floor without cringing.

Well, once something like that happens other things start happening. I picked up a new chair for Katrina at the Goodwill. Then when we went to my dad's this weekend, we came home with a desk with 7 drawers for Katrina...7 drawers, people! My daughter, who loves to keep everything is sooooo happy! The problem was that where we wanted to put her desk was a horizontal filing cabinet that was no longer in use and a small white telephone type shelf that holds our telephone books and other asundry items. Well, we found new homes for those items, one in the den, and one as a replacement to an old tv cart that sits between our living room and dining room. Now all of our karaoke stuff fits inside the old filing cabinet and it won't be dusty anymore either:) And the tv cart, which still had some life in it was wheeled into Jack's room to help organize a pile of stuff.

So then the outside shots...some cleaning of the sidewalk needed to be done (I should have taken before pictures, but so often I don't think of that until I am taking the after pictures). So the kids went out and picked up dozens of sticks that the dogs had left laying on the sidewalk, and they picked up the remnants of some doggie toys, and they pushed rocks back to where they were supposed to be. Doesn't it look grand (see shots above).

So, now things will settle down for a bit, though I am looking for more area rugs and bookshelves for Jack and Katrina's rooms....