Before and After

The Living room paint job:

Larry thought decorating in the theme of Easter would be appropriate. The kids loved it.



After the paint job. I am embarrassed to show how cluttered it got so so fast



Bathroom:
After:






Before:
see

http://weblog.xanga.com/mamatolittlelions/636144187/look-mom-no-bathroom.html

I can't find the pictures on my computer..but there they are.

AND a big public thank you to God!
For sparing Larry's cell phone after going through the wash.

And in case you're wondering- no, I don't empty his pockets and neither does he.
I washed 2 of his paychecks (ouch!!) if not more. They were nice replacing it the first time. Thank goodness for direct deposit now!
When the cell phone went AWOL I started checking his pants pockets before dumping in the wash (basically by shaking for sound grabbing the fabric in that area feeling for non-fabric feeling things, by no means a perfect way).

Welll........turns out it was in a sweatshirt pocket.
The lurk of my stomach as I was pulling the wash from the washer and seeing it sitting there soaking wet and the panic of 'oh, no!!' was followed by the 'what would a tech-savy-super-wife do?' thought. AH, yes, I'd had read something about this - took the battery out, let it dry.

OK. several hour later. Put battery in. Nothing. Ugh.
Then I remember, it's been missing for several days and when I'm calling it to find it, it goes straight to voicemail (which for us, means the phone is off which in turn means the battery is dead).

Ok.try not to panic. Up to find the charger. Plug it in. Nothing.
Panic and wiggle the cord and the little light comes on.

HALLELUJAH!!

One crisis down for the day.

Real estate lady come back today. That would be my second crisis for the day.
And about that-
I guess if you want someone with EXPERIENCE the thing to do is NOT call just the agency office and say you want to sell your house- you get the person who answered the phone. And you know WHY that person is available? Because they don't have other business. Gives you a huge vote of confidence, doesn't it?

Well, turns out real estate lady graduated/passed her licensing test 2 days ago. yes. 2 days. I don't know about you, but I'm not really confident in anyone who passed something 2 days ago. 2 days after getting my drivers' license, I was a SCARY driver. Same for my nursing license. We would be her first (and so far only) listing.

We're interviewing a new one later this week.