Joyful Living

Finally Settled

If you've read my blog in the past, you'd know that we had been planning a move from Utah to North Carolina.  We just made the move within the last few weeks and that's why I haven't blogged in 2 months.  Our house in Utah is an old one and needed a LOT of work before we dared put in on the market, so we were incredibly busy for quite a while. 

This is the new living room floor, baseboards, and walls.

This is another view of the living room with the new curtains.

This is the stairwell leading upstairs.  I painted the floor, stairs, railing, rebuilt the walls and textured and painted.

This is the color we did in the bathroom.  We also put in a new surround and textured the walls.  We don't care for texturing, but we had no choice with the amount of defects in the old walls.

This is the upstairs bedroom.  We pulled up the carpet, painted the wood planks underneath, textured the walls and painted.  We also built in a window seat bench.  That picture will follow.

New Living Room!

Some fun winter ideas to do with the family

• Get up before any one else and sit quietly in the dark with some hot chocolate and listen to the wind.

• Fill the tub and have a nice bubble bath.  Fill a basket with candles, matches, music, a good book, and plenty of bath salts and have ready by the side of the tub.

• Fill a basket with games, hot cocoa, popcorn, some fun movies, and a warm blanket to enjoy on a cold evening.  Don't forget the PJs!

• Sit on a blanket in front of the fire and take turns telling jokes, stories, and ghost stories.  Be sure to have plenty of snacks too!

• Put a pot of water to simmer and slip in some cinnamon sticks and cloves.  Don't let it burn!

• Go sledding together or have snowman building contest and then gather around the kitchen table with some hot chocolate and marshmallows. 

• Just enjoy being together and make some memories!!!