Our Family Blog

This weekend was spent taking down and putting up all the Christmas decorations.  Shannon put up two trees this year, on in the 'wine room' and the other in the family room.  Both looked sensational!   I only wish that the attic area that we stored the decorations in wasn't above the second floor.  Geeze, hauling all the boxes up the stairs and then up the attic drop stairs can wear you out!  But the house getting back to normal now and little less crowded.  Although the tree in the family room covered up the temporary repair work on the wall where the fireplace and inner wall studs were repaired.  So life will settle down a bit now, at least for a few weeks anyway.  I suspect that sometime in mid February or early March will be replacing the carpet in the family room and finishing the wall and fireplace renovations.