Just a quick check in today to show you that I am not leaving half of my Christmas decorations up all year like it’s possible I did last year, and to talk a bit about house stuff that’s going on.

Spring in the kitchen!

I know the bunny and the eggs give it an Eastery vibe, but I didn’t get it done until a couple of days after Easter. Having places to put eggs is pretty important to us all the time these days, though, because our chickens lay an awful lot of them. I found that little ceramic egg crate on Amazon awhile back and also bought an egg skelter that sits on the kitchen table (affiliate links).

As I’m writing, I’m waiting for Dave to finish up a game of Guess Who with Abe so that we can make a Lowes or Home Depot run to buy some stuff we need for finishing up Ari’s room. Or getting closer to finishing up anyway. We did some planning and came up with some fun ideas yesterday, and that’s helping me find my motivation a little. My motivation for house things has been very much lacking lately, but then when we actually do stuff it makes me happy, so I should continue to search for my motivation. I did a dresser makeover for Ari’s room recently that did not turn out the way I had hoped, and that was a major setback. For my motivation. I’ll show it to you sometime. But I think I’ll also figure out something different for in there for his dresser.

We did get him a platform bed and a comforter (from TJ Maxx, so no longer available):

The original plan was to build a bed, but it turns out simple wooden platform beds like what I had in mind are pretty cheap to just buy new, so we did that instead, and we’re happy with it.

Ari is back in Minnesota for college until the middle of May, so he’s not actually using his bed. But his brother is. As is the cat.

What else? We’re working on getting some boring stuff done around here, like windows and garage doors and other assorted maintenance and repair type stuff. Needs to be done but not riveting blog content. But we do hope to get a few more interesting projects done before summer travels get going. Speaking of that, we’re getting a new trailer soon, and I’m very excited about that (knock wood! we’re hoping it will be ready for us to pick up in a week or so). There might be some cross blog content here about any decorate-y parts of the new trailer that works better here than on the travel blog.

And then I can’t think past that. Which is probably just as well. One thing at a time! Like (okay, I am thinking ahead) I’d like to say that we’ll get the floors in our master bedroom finished before summer, but right now our bedroom is stuffed full of stuff that came out of Ari’s room and needs to be sorted through and put back (or given away) and stuff that came out of the trailer and…same. But we can’t do any of that until we get the new trailer and make more progress on Ari’s room.

So! That’s where we are. Lots of stuff going on, but not much finished enough to blog about these days. (In the old days I would have gotten like four blog posts out of this anyway!)