This Saturday Clay and his parents spent the day at the Kanawha Trace 50k outside Barboursville, WV. Clay swept the race while his dad ran the 10k first and ran with Clay afterwards. I opted to stay at home with the dogs and the peace and quiet. While I love having Clay at home, I also cherish the moments I get the house to myself. It gives me a chance to catch up on my housework and not feel as though I am just following Clay throughout the house picking up after him! Needless to say I got a decent amount of cleaning done and also organized a closet! Yay! It's amazing how long it has taken for Clay and I to get settled in this house. I guess since this is our first house, and me coming from across the country and not bringing any furniture, we have just taken it a little at a time. When I think I have it all taken care of, I find another box of stuff to go through, or a new organization challenge to figure out as Clay and I are still figuring out our life together and whose responsibility is what. I have to say I have definitely come to realize that there is NO WAY I could be the wife and mom I want to be, and have a full time job, and have time to take care of myself. I can barely do it now excluding the mom part!
Another thing I have noticed is that since becoming a homeowner and a wife and being in charge of the majority of the cleaning and organizing, I have been way more willing to get rid of stuff than before. The Christmas before we got married Clay drive a minivan full of my stuff from my parents house in northern California, to Beckley. And while going through stuff, I didn't want to get rid of anything despite Clay looking over my shoulder saying ' do you really need that?'. As soon as it went from being clutter in my parents house to clutter in my house, it magically went from something I wanted to keep for my grandkids to see, to something that is taking up space. Also I made the mistake of storing boxes of stuff in our unfinished basement which gets very wet and moldy.
It seems like we will have a never ending list of projects to do around our house, but each time I whine to myself about it, I think about how lucky we are to be homeowners! Clay has a beautiful garden in and here are some squash, zucchini (the round things) and some cucumbers. We have also already enjoyed beets, snap peas, and lots of lettuce!
Also, we have been re-finishing the floor in our bathroom. When we bought the house, it was pink carpet. Yuck! We knew there was hardwood floor underneath but Clay wanted to wait to refinish it until the weather was warmer so that when he stained it we could leave the windows open for ventilation. Well last winter I left the dog water bowl sitting in the bathroom and sure enough it got knocked over. At this point we knew we had to rip the carpet up to keep it from getting moldy. To our surprise the wood floor underneath was covered in glue. At some point in time there had been linoleum on top of the wood floor which was attached with glue. So we spent many days scraping the glue off. When that was finished it was still winter so we covered it up with plastic and it has been that way for months. As soon as the weather warmed up I started nagging Clay about finishing the floor so that I wouldn't have to vacuum dog hair off the plastic anymore. He started on it a little bit today. The wood is really beautiful. I am sure it will be a long process since he is using a small sander, and there is still a bit of glue on the floor, but I am so excited to have wood floors in the bathroom!
Also here is a picture of our blueberries! I think I will try to go back this week and get more as we decided on purchasing a chest freezer this week!
