At least this is what I keep telling myself. (and getting Garret to reassure me with) Part of our newlywed motivational push had to do with getting stuff done around the house. We are pretty rejuvenated; riding on the post wedding/honeymoon high, so we have started really moving forward with all things homey. Garret fixed the ceiling and finished taping/drywalling/sanding the area in the living room (yay) and we also finally chose and brought home hardwood flooring for upstairs. My father in law is coming over later this week and our project for the rest of the week and weekend is getting our floor installed and finished. For those of you who haven't been to casa de Walsh, the upstairs is pretty tiny. A small hallway, two smallish bedrooms and the only closet in the house. The plus side is that we don't have a lot of space we need to put flooring in, but the down side is we have no shuffle room to put our stuff as we do the floors. So the downstairs of our house looks like the upstairs exploded all over it. Last night while I made some accidently incredibly spicy soup for dinner, G ripped out a weird shelving unit that the former owners had built into the wall. That has been on the to-do list for over a year, and while it didn't really take up too much space in the hall way, it really looks nice to have it gone.
Tonight we are going to move our dressers, bedside tables etc. downstairs creating a sort of furnishings gauntlet one must walk through to get from the front door to the kitchen. (If you make it in one piece your reward is dinner!) It will be so worthwhile in the end, but thus far has only created frustration as it has lead Garret to once more notice what a book hoarder he married.(He usually doesn't notice the stacks I have on the floor on my side of our bed) Wish us luck as we embark on this task because neither of us tends to function well when our house/life is really chaotic so this could be an interesting weekend!
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
A totally un-house related post
One of my oldest and dearest friends has been trying unsuccessfully to get pregnant for the past three or so years. She, much like myself and many of my other girlfriends, just assumed that when she and her husband were ready to start their family it would just happen. Unfortunately due to several issues it turned out that "just happening" was not going to happen for them. The past few months have been a lot of back and forth with tests, needles, hormones, waiting, more tests, finding a better doctor, more needles and more waiting. The past few weeks she has been giving herself needles to get ready for the procedure that happened over the weekend. Yesterday she went through her IVF procedure and is now deemed "pregnant until proven otherwise" I have every extremity crossed (not just my fingers), and am sending prayers and positive energy out into the universe that this works for them. She has always been one of the most supportive, positive and encouraging people I know, and watching her go through this has been awful. There is nothing I can say or do that can really help, and I am sure that some of my well meaning comments over the past few years really haven't helped. (and likely have been more insensitive than I knew at the time). Not having gone through this myself, and not really knowing other people going through this right now, it has been so hard to know what to say. And when you are broken hearted hearing someone try to cheer you up with cheesy platitudes probably is really annoying.
It likely sounds weird to say that someone deserves a baby, but this friend does. So anyone that reads this today please send a thought or a prayer out there because this just has to work. Her belief in the magic of Christmas and her general happy spirit have been so crushed lately and this is the only thing that can bring them back.
It likely sounds weird to say that someone deserves a baby, but this friend does. So anyone that reads this today please send a thought or a prayer out there because this just has to work. Her belief in the magic of Christmas and her general happy spirit have been so crushed lately and this is the only thing that can bring them back.
Friday, October 5, 2012
Fall To-Dos
It seems that my little house blog took a serious turn for wedding rambling for a while there...now that that is over let me enthral you with our upcoming home reno plans:
Since we took such a time out on the house to focus on summer plans, wedding planning and general non house related life stuff, our home to do plans over the next few months are extensive! We are both big socializers and seem to always have weekend plans, so we decided to make more time during the week to at least push things forward a little. We can easily allot a few hours after work to painting and other house fixing related tasks. We are also going to try to not book both weekend days with plans for a while, so we have some more time to try to accomplish things. The past year and a bit in the house has taught us one lesson: everything takes twice as long as you think it will!
We finished our dining room a few months ago (except for the lighting) and we take so much satisfaction out of how nice that room looks. I want that feeling everywhere else in our home. So....this weekend we are planning to finish painting the living room ceiling and the walls where we removed the crown moulding (Garret has been skim coating and sanding this week so we should be good to go) He is DYING to start the brickwork on the one wall, so that might get kicked off as well. Once the living room is done we are going to (and not necessarily in this order):
1. Put the trim up on the other side of the door in the downstairs washroom
2. Backsplash in the kitchen. We have been putting WAY too much thought into it, we just need to pick something and go with it.
3. Fix the hole in the ceiling in the kitchen that was cut to change out the wiring. (it is so small that we keep forgetting it's there, but it would be nice to have that DONE)
4. Paint the staircase and railing. The top banister requires some serious sanding though, it would appear the previous owner had a beaver who cut his baby teeth on the fop railing.
5. Put a runner down the stairs
6. New light fixture and fix ceiling in entrance hall (maybe this is two separate items?!)
7. Finish painting our room and guest room--we have colours chosen already we just need to get at it
8. Install the new hardwood flooring we bought upstairs (I will be sucking up to my Father in Law tonight to see when he can come help! )
9. Install three new doors upstairs (two bedrooms and the bathroom) The existing doors are AWFUL. The guest bedroom door gets stuck all the time, the gap in the bathroom door would be perfect for a peeping tom, and our bedroom door doesn't even close!
There are a billion and one other items on our list, but I feel like this is hefty enough to keep us going for the fall/winter. I also need to throw in: organize basement and build closet type fake built ins around our bed, but don't let me get ahead of myself! One of my girlfriends might be coming to live with us for a few weeks in October so I feel like getting the guest room sorted out might be the top of our priority list.. I will keep you posted on how things go.
Since we took such a time out on the house to focus on summer plans, wedding planning and general non house related life stuff, our home to do plans over the next few months are extensive! We are both big socializers and seem to always have weekend plans, so we decided to make more time during the week to at least push things forward a little. We can easily allot a few hours after work to painting and other house fixing related tasks. We are also going to try to not book both weekend days with plans for a while, so we have some more time to try to accomplish things. The past year and a bit in the house has taught us one lesson: everything takes twice as long as you think it will!
We finished our dining room a few months ago (except for the lighting) and we take so much satisfaction out of how nice that room looks. I want that feeling everywhere else in our home. So....this weekend we are planning to finish painting the living room ceiling and the walls where we removed the crown moulding (Garret has been skim coating and sanding this week so we should be good to go) He is DYING to start the brickwork on the one wall, so that might get kicked off as well. Once the living room is done we are going to (and not necessarily in this order):
1. Put the trim up on the other side of the door in the downstairs washroom
2. Backsplash in the kitchen. We have been putting WAY too much thought into it, we just need to pick something and go with it.
3. Fix the hole in the ceiling in the kitchen that was cut to change out the wiring. (it is so small that we keep forgetting it's there, but it would be nice to have that DONE)
4. Paint the staircase and railing. The top banister requires some serious sanding though, it would appear the previous owner had a beaver who cut his baby teeth on the fop railing.
5. Put a runner down the stairs
6. New light fixture and fix ceiling in entrance hall (maybe this is two separate items?!)
7. Finish painting our room and guest room--we have colours chosen already we just need to get at it
8. Install the new hardwood flooring we bought upstairs (I will be sucking up to my Father in Law tonight to see when he can come help! )
9. Install three new doors upstairs (two bedrooms and the bathroom) The existing doors are AWFUL. The guest bedroom door gets stuck all the time, the gap in the bathroom door would be perfect for a peeping tom, and our bedroom door doesn't even close!
There are a billion and one other items on our list, but I feel like this is hefty enough to keep us going for the fall/winter. I also need to throw in: organize basement and build closet type fake built ins around our bed, but don't let me get ahead of myself! One of my girlfriends might be coming to live with us for a few weeks in October so I feel like getting the guest room sorted out might be the top of our priority list.. I will keep you posted on how things go.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Marital Advising
I have only been back to work for 4 hours and already I have been receiving marital advice out the wazoo. I found this article on a blog I was reading on my lunch break and I really love the thoughts as the author reflects on 15 years of marriage. I know that different things work for different people, but I like feeling that our marriage is something we need to feed and take care of for it to be successful. I like being a team of 2. We have been team Shwalsh for a while now, but as we move forward as Team Walsh I want to give our marriage the best chance of survival possible. Is it weird that while nothing has really changed (except for my last name) in the past few weeks, I am really starting to think differently about things?
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Back to Reality
The past two and a half weeks have flown by. Our wedding was everything we could have wanted and more...and it was probably the fastest day in either of our lives. We had a magical surprise honeymoon and at my mum's suggestion took off a few extra days this week just to get our heads out of the clouds. I will do a wedding a honeymoon rundown later this week with a few of the roughly 2 million photos that were taken. The day we got back from our honeymoon our beautiful nephew was born. He was due the day before the wedding but just really wanted to hang in there so we didn't miss anything. Im going to Ok it with my brother first and then will be posting some pictures.
We are definitely still basking in post wedding bliss! G went back to work this morning and I'm home trying to transition our home from summer to fall (I seem to have a ton of dresses but no pants...I recall putting them somewhere in our basement in the spring--the hunt continues) It feels so foreign to be apart today...we have been together everyday for the past while that I find myself lonely today. I thought that I was ready for some time to myself but I think that I just want ONE more day before things go back and our life moves on. Wedded Walsh's our "real" life now begins.
We are definitely still basking in post wedding bliss! G went back to work this morning and I'm home trying to transition our home from summer to fall (I seem to have a ton of dresses but no pants...I recall putting them somewhere in our basement in the spring--the hunt continues) It feels so foreign to be apart today...we have been together everyday for the past while that I find myself lonely today. I thought that I was ready for some time to myself but I think that I just want ONE more day before things go back and our life moves on. Wedded Walsh's our "real" life now begins.
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