In the meantime...

Waiting is the hardest thing ever, so we decided to take on remodeling our upstairs. What were we thinking? It has been a huge undertaking. I know it will look amazing when it's done, it just doesn't ever feel like it will be done. When we bought the house almost 3 years ago, we wanted to replace the carpet because the previous owners didn't take care of it, but we put if off because we didn't want to spend the money. This year we decided to use our tax return and to pay for it. Then we thought about it and said if we are going to do that, then lets do everything we want to the upstairs before we have new carpet laid. The plans were to: take down popcorn ceiling and respray, paint all the ceilings, paint all the walls, replace bedroom doors, replace closet doors, replace blinds, replace all baseboards upstairs, find new bedding and curtains for master bedroom and guest bedroom and set up a nursery. First step was removing our horrible popcorn ceilings by scrapping them down and retexurizing them. Boy was this a messy job. Naturally Shane didn't like them, so we hired someone to spray them last Tuesday. They look really good now. Then this past Saturday and Sunday, we worked on the house for about 25 hours. We worked our butts off and were so exhausted. We painted all the ceilings upstairs, painted the nursery white, took down all the doors, closet doors and baseboards. We have been trying to work on it a little each day, but by the time we both get off work, we have little motivation to work on the house. Guess that means we will be working on it most of this weekend. We are hoping to have carpet laid by the end of March, so we have to get most of the work done before then. Shane and I have very different taste, but we were able to agree on all the wall colors and bed sets. I will post pics when it is all done. Some of you may be asking why are we setting up a nursery when we don't have a child yet. One of the requirements for fostering is to have a room set up for the child. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, but setting up a nursery has been one of things we have been waiting years to do. Friends of ours were generous enough to give us their daughter's old crib. Now we just have to find a dresser that somewhat matches and pick out a neutral bedding set that can be used for either sex.