Yes I've been neglecting my blog for a few months. Our remodeling efforts for getting this place sold I think are really starting to turn heads. I think the main detractor now is the almost white berber carpet downstairs. The carpet looks hideous and we can't keep it clean, besides all the stains. We already need to shampoo all of upstairs again. Just because a company touts they are a good christian company doens't mean they necessarily do a GOOD job of something. This has been shown to us twice by a house cleaner and a carpet cleaning company. You hear christian and you think of honest good people, but don't always be fooled! Go for someone that has GOOD REVIEWS!!!!!!! I will never stress that enough now.
So we have been trying with little extra bits of money here and there to stage the house properly to sell via curtains, pictures, etc. I've always wanted to have a house that wowed people when they come visit. Maybe not super fancy, just a nice, clean, DECORATED place. It's amazing what spending 20 bucks here and there does for a house :) I've never had a decorated house before, and it feels good. Makes you really take more care and pride on your house when it looks nice.
On another note, my poor son still won't talk, but he's starting to get the hang of things he should already be able to do now. He still doesn't really point at things, but we think he CAN talk, just doesn't want to. He randomly counted from 1-5 the other day, but hasn't since. He's always been super hyper, won't sit still for anything. Now he gives daddy 5, sits at his play table and plays with his counting/abc toys. He still won't sit still in our laps for us to read a story to him. I wish he would, I would love to show him things, and teach him, but he never pays attention. I'm thinking about maybe making juice more of a treat than him getting it every day, even though it's almost all the way watered down. Think I may have to switch to just milk and water with juice and chocolate milk a rare treat. We hardly ever give him anything sugary as is. Just trying to think of things to get him to calmn down. If he is still not really talking by the end of this year, we will be going to get someone out here to check on him. He DOES show signs of being autistic, but it's not as bad as it was when he was 1.
Other than that things have ben quiet and slow here. Our poor SUV got keyed or we think someone backed into us with boards or a tree while Brian was at Home Depot. Poor SUV.
Not sure when we are taking our next trip to Nashville, but when we go we will probably look at some land. The plan is to buy some land, put a trailer on it, get all our debt paid off, get our name off the other house hopefully, and then finally build us a brand new custom home. I'll also be buying books and learning all about homesteading, gardening, raising farm animals. Not going to go too crazy with it, but we want a garden and maybe a few animals to have our own food. We hardly trust anymore what big companies but in our food. I would rather grow my own, and know what I am cooking with. i want a little greenhouse so I can also grow my own herbs, so I can make my OWN spices. I am really looking forward to it because I do love to cook now :)
Hmmmm....can't think of anything else now, but at least this is a start!
