Happy New Year! 2008

I have not had an opportunity to write on this thing for awhile now. We have had a busy time. Christmas came quick and fast, two days after Christmas we left on vaction for 10 days. Once we got home we had new carpet laid in the house (what a pain in the BUTT to do it with a house full of funiture, but I LOVE IT).

Have you ever gone to the carpet sample place and looked at carpet? I had a budget that I had to stay in...$30 a sq ft, nothing more, nothing less. Just that. So, I ruled out several types of carpet because it was not in the budget. Looking at the different carpet was crazy. I had a certain color and style in my mind before I went and while there, my mind was all screwed up, I could not visualize the whole house off a 5x5 square piece of carpet. This sample was not much bigger than a large index card. So, on carpet day, I worried that I had picked out the wrong color, I worried that it would look horrible. Guess what, I did perfect. The color in the store ended up being the exact color I had wanted. I would have never guessed that based on the sample I had to look at. Talk about relief. the house looks like a brand new house. My famous words now are get off the carpet with your shoes on, what are you thinking? The first night we had Danielle and the kids over for Wendy's...I made everyone eat in the Seminary. She said you know mom, one day you are going to have to eat inside your house. I said no, we can eat in the Seminary it will be ok. She just rolled her eyes at me.