Life in the South

The trials and tribulations of parenthood and living away from family from a "Yankee" raising a baby in the south.

Monday, October 29, 2007

What a week and weekend!


As you can see we went to a Halloween party this weekend, we literally went as the SQ's. Everyone that knew us thought it was pretty funny! The past three weeks we have been finishing the hallway (pics to come) and cleaning. My dad came to visit for 4 days, which is what prompted the cleaning since he's allergic to cats.

It is very hard to believe that Wednesday is my last day of work here. I am very excited to start my new position though.

I am super psyched on Thursday we are flying to Maine to see my cousine and to attend the Maine Brewers' Festival. What a way to end the week!

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Caution!!! Children Can't Fly

So the rest of our windows were installed on Friday (before and after pics here). So, they printed out some stickers for us so we could know how energy efficient they were. (It reminded me of the stickers that they put inside of new cars.) I just found this so funny, that they really had to put this warning on our window stickers, and title of the warning was just the best, so I scanned it in to share it with you! (You can tell it's real because in the lower right corner it says manufactured for Eskew)


Playing Hooky

So, I'm at home playing hooky today. Not really though, we are having new windows installed today and tomorrow. Although, I am a bit worried because they have been working for almost 2 hours upstairs and they don't have one window in yet. I know they are having a lot of trouble getting it in, level, etc. . . The company that we purchased them from and the person they sent out to measure said it would be a tough job because the windows we have are so crappy, but I feel bad for them.

Anyways, it has just been a plethora of home improvement projects for us lately. As I said in an earlier post, we ripped down all of the paneling in our hallway and entry way. So last weekend we sanded the walls down and taught ourselves how to 'mud' the wall. Needless to say this is more than a one weekend project, so we hope to finish mudding this week, then sand and paint this weekend. Geesh, so much work and so little time!