M.I.A.

Yeah, that's been me!!

But guess what?

I'm back!:)

Well, after about 3 crazy months we are finally in a place that we are calling "home". Sounds so weird because Rowan county NC has never been "home" ever before. But now. It is. (I will share pics, I promise:) )

After 2 moves in 2 months I am ready to just sit down, put my feet up, drink lemonade on my front porch, and watch life creep by. Ha. As if that's going to happen! And I really don't want it to:)

We bought a pretty little piece of land with a house on it that was built in 1907 but has been completely gutted down to the studs and brand new drywall, trim, etc. throughout in 1992, so not completely new, but new enough.

By "little" piece of land I mean 1.15 acres. Ok, not so little:) But again, we wanted room for our munchkin to RUN outside.

And what comes with all that house and land goodness? Why LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of projects!! Good for keeping me busy and also good for blogging:) Aren't y'all just so lucky??:)

Well, let's get started... Here is my first project. (Not the bed, the walls...:) But the bed did get put together, we are not sleeping on the floor...)

See all that stripy wallpapery goodness? *sarcastic snort* I know wallpaper is coming back in style but if I ever hop on the boat it will be a LONG time from now! And it really did look much worse in person than in these pictures. Very masculine and dark. Notice I'm using past tense when referring to it. Its gone. :) All gone. :) You know how when you buy a new house there is always the previous owner's "smell" left? (In our case greasy cooking smell stuck to all the wood in the house *gag*) Or else the house has been empty and there's just a weird smell? Well we have the privilege of both... The house had been empty for a few years except a few weekends here and there, kinda like a vacation house I guess, but when we put an offer on it and had the home inspection done there were a bunch of repairs that needed to be made so the guy moved in and fixed them all himself, he's a handy-man for a living so I guess it worked out for him. Anywho, so in hopes of getting rid of the weird smells I'm working on stripping all the wallpaper and repainting as quickly as possibly.

What? You didn't think the only room with wallpaper was the bedroom did you??? Oh. No. It's in lots of places, I will show you those rooms on a later post:) But I must say, this was BY FAR the easiest wallpaper removal I've ever had the privilege of taking on. And I've had wa-a-a-a-ayyyyy too many!

So that's a snippet of my real life right now! Stripping wallpaper. Cleaning. Deep cleaning. Oh. And of course can't forget the most important thing!

Taking care of this precious little stinker!:) When he's not following me around grabbing at my ankles and whining because of teething he's off finding SOMETHING to get into. After all, can't make mama's life too easy!:) But I love him to death, who couldn't love that huge smile, especially after he's been "caught" in the act!

And now it's time to go get him out of bed, he's in there practicing his favorite new word, "uh-oh". So cute I tell ya:)

And I'm so excited to be back blogging and showing you some of the changes being made in the house as we go. Toodles for now!