My Plans

There have been so many nice

comments and thoughts and

even a lot of questions on 

yesterdays blog. Thank you all.

To reply to them....yes, I do think

I have made the right decision 

in buying my childhood home. 

I do know that it is going to 

cause some more stress on me

preparing my home for sell,

packing to move to moms and

getting things lined up. I have 

not had to do this in 28 years.

My biggest worry is staying

on task and not allowing myself

to get overwhelmed and my

body shutting down. I am going

to have to push myself but 

in the long run, this was be 

great.

My new home is brick and 

siding with replacement windows 

compared to my home now which

is wood siding, although I do have

replacement windows. The deck

there is shaped different, where mine

is long and not so wide, that one

is more square. Plus, there is another 

portion of the deck not roofed or

screened, so a perfect section for

grilling. I had the part of my backyard

fenced in for the dogs when I brought

them here,  Dakota never had to be fenced.

But  at mom's the fenced in area is bigger.

There is a den that will become

my craft room. It has bathroom off

that. It is downstairs, there are three

ways to enter that room, from the garage,

through the french doors off the driveway

and down the stairs. On that same level

is the garage and the basement. Laundry

is in the basement but that will not

be a biggie.

Upstairs is the living area of the 

living room, kitchen and dining 

room and the back door to the deck.

Up two steps from the living room 

is the bathroom and three good size

bedrooms. So yes Liz, I will basically

be living on one level. 

I packed up my moms whole house, 

my younger brother carried off things

to Goodwill that none of the family

needed. However, the living room 

and the den are full of boxes that

belong to other family members. They

will need to come collect all  that.

My plans are to pack up things upstairs

here at my home and start moving all

those boxes over to a section of the den

or even in the basement. That will allow

me to finish ripping up carpet and laying

the floor that I had already started. Be 

easier not having to work around everything.

Packing up and moving all that will not

be an issue cause even though I have

three bedrooms, I have not been living up

there. WHAT YOU ASK.....well, back in 

the summer the stairs started to be an

issue with Dakota. With the cancer he

usually has to go out in the middle

of the night, sometimes more then 

once. One night, for the third time, 

he needed to go out, in my sleepy

state and my body that was giving me

issues I slipped and fell. I decided then

that we would just sleep downstairs. 

I started out sleeping on my couch, 

which is extra long then most couches.

Also when you take the back cushions

off you have a couch that is as long and 

as wide as a twin size bed....but that got

old and my body was not liking it.

I found a heavy metal day bedframe

on FB Marketplace. I purchased that, 

spray painted the color I wanted and 

moved it in the living room. I bought

a memory foam mattress. My thoughts

were that it would just become my

couch also, a gypsy type style of 

sitting around. 

Keep in mind, my couch is pulled

out away from the wall and sitting 

in the middle of the room. I offered it

for free on FB and a lady I have shot

family pics for twice and her wedding,

wanted it. They were suppose to come

last weekend to get it. I figure hubby

pitched a big one and so they did not

come. Guessing that is a good thing

now cause I  will need it in the living

room. The daybed will be put in the 

craft room cause I not only have

my queen size bed, I have to antique

metal beds for the guest rooms. 

I have been dragging my feet about

bring somethings home that 

mom had given me for the mere

fact I was not sure where they

were going to go. These are things

that I want but I was struggling with

lifting them and getting them here.

Antique heirloom glassware that 

belonged to greats along the way.

Now I am thinking there was a reason

I did not move them. 

I was asked would I be okay living 

over there since it was moms home

and she past there....I am good with 

that. The reason I left before was, it

was to close to her passing and 

I was living among her stuff and not

mine. I was lost and could not work

on things that I wanted to work on 

cause it was not there. My daughter sort

of but words to what I felt....

Leaving this home and going there

should be easy cause I don't have 

an attachment to my home other

then me and my kids lived here.

I don't have any sentimental feelings

to it. There, is where I grew up 

and  I have some

amazing memories there. Even 

making that home my own, I will

still feel close to my mom cause

she lived there, made that her home for

over 50 yrs. 

Sorry...no pics today and I 

dislike doing a blog with no

pics. I will however be showing

pics along my new journey. 

I was asked today what word 

I gave to my year of 2020...

once I thought about it I realized

that word had to be HEALING. 

I think this is my first step to doing 

that.

Oops....last night I 
played with snapchat...
I look good with fake
hair, and wearing
red!
HAHA

Pam