getting lots of help from my three little friends, while we are in the midst of a major home renovation project. john ripped up all the flooring in our whole downstairs (and at the top of the upstairs, too). which wouldn't have been a big deal except houses built in the 1970's have this crazy thick board stuff that has approximately a trillion nails AND screws in it, and that needed to come up, too. the kids love to "help", and we've been trying to be patient and let them be involved. which results in lots of little scenes like the one above----markers "helping" us take the carpet up.
so i've been quiet here, and everywhere. pulling back and pulling in. maybe it comes with the change in the season, maybe it comes with the darkness, or maybe it's come because of all the rain. maybe it's because i've been living with a thick layer of dust all over every surface of my household. maybe it's because we have plywood floors right now and if i look hard enough i can see into my basement. life seems a bit unsettled.
in a few days we will be completely done with the tear up. then we will cover (again) most of the walls with a new (different) color of paint. and then in a week or two we'll be getting our floors! and i can bring my finished island up from the basement. and start really nesting and cleaning and getting ready for thanksgiving, my favorite holiday. i may or may not have started my christmas shopping today. it's all about the nesting right now. nesting and fall scented candles.
so if you're looking for me, i'm here, under a dusty quilt waiting for the beginning of november to arrive. xx
