NOW

It took awhile, but I'm finally posting the "now" pictures I said I would post. Sorry for the delay, Nell!

Here's Colter on Sunday.

Here's his big-boy hand! Look at the picture on Friday's post to see how he's grown!

Oops! I Almost Forgot!

I forgot my own blogoversary! I'm glad I don't have a blog wife who's moping because I didn't bring her flowers and a box of chocolates because she would have been out of luck. I didn't remember until she came by and wished me a happy blogoversary. Silly me.

If I were a more motivated individual, I would celebrate this milestone with a ginormous post with blog highlights from the past year during which I went though phases with lots of blog activity and phases with NO blogging activity. I went M.I.A. several times. I'm back for now, though, and but too hungry to write a proper blogoversary post--instead I'm going to go have a peanut butter and blackberry jam sandwich to celebrate. Happy Blogoversary to me! Hooray!

FFF-THEN

Today's Favorite Foto Friday theme is THEN! OH, Look at those wee little hands! So sweet!

Colter's still sleeping (yes, he's still sleeping at 9:30! He's not a morning person), but I'm going to try to get some pictures of his hands today for a NOW picture. I'll post later.

Here's another "then" picture...

and a "now."

See! I really did alphabetize my spices. You thought I was too much of a flibbertigibbet to actually be that organized, didn't you? Hee Hee. See Webster's word-of-the-day.

Bathroom Boogeyman

The ghost that lives in my bathroom has been redecorating. I heard a noise coming from the bathroom, and when I went to check it out, I found this.This picture was taken from a weird angle, but apparently the clock fell off its nail, and the two picture frames below caught the clock. I'm not really sure how this happened, since the space between the two photographs is normally a bit wider than the clock. Mysterious! Maybe the toilet phantom has branched out from merely clogging the toilet at random to interior design. I'm not sure I like his style. It seems a bit precarious...like the clock could fall on my head at any second....hmmm....maybe that is his plan....

OOooooooooOOOOOOOoooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo (ghostly sounds)

For Real?

After much discussion and hair rippage, John and I have decided that even though the crazy bank approved us for a second loan, we are going to try to sell our house before buying a new one. In other words, we chickened out. :) We don't want to forge for berries if for some reason our current house is on the market for three years before someone buys it. I don't think it will take three years to sell our house though---unless all the potential buyers have an aversion to neighborhoods with dogs, or they've read my blog and saw all my complaints about the dogs.... What? Complaints? I've never complained about the incessant barking in my neighbor's backyard! It's marvelous music to my ears! The dogs don't frighten Colter's playmates or wake us up in the wee hours of the morning. The dogs are awesome!!! So awesome that you should buy my house! We'll have it on the market a.s.a.p.

Now that we have decided that it would be smarter to sell first, I've done some Googling to find out what we can do to improve our chances of selling quickly. When selling a house, sellers are supposed to rid their house of all personalized objects, like photographs, so that potential buyers do not wonder about the people that live in the house but imagine themselves living in the house. Sellers are supposed to pack away all their books, so, again, buyers aren't too concerned about the people that live in the house. Also, rooms are supposed to be in neutral colors because hot pink or purple rooms must turn people off. Don't most people want to redecorate when they move anyway? Can't they imagine what a room would look like painted differently? Apparently, many people have very little imagination.

I have no desire to paint my walls (which are mostly blue! Ack! Not neutral!), and there is no way I am painting Colter's bedroom. Would you want to deprive a boy of his awesome jungle island walls that his mommy and aunt spent hours on?

I wonder if it would be okay to post a note saying I'll paint the room a nice, boring white before we move out?

I'll be posting more about getting the house ready to go on the market soon. Right now, I'm off to alphabetize my spices because this article said to.

Favorite Foto Friday-February Favorite

Spring is springing! Hooray for spring! We had a wonderful 70+ degree day yesterday, and it was so uplifting. I am ready for some nice warm days. Colter is too, as we get to play outside more. Although I am totally ready for spring and am excited that the cold weather is going to retreat soon, I cannot believe February is over. Time flies! Before I know it, the nice, comfortable, warm days of spring will be replaced by hot, sticky, skin-melting, July days! Oh, well. As the wise man, Groucho Marx once said, "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." Hee Hee. I'm a silly girl.

Onward to the point! Today is Favorite Foto Friday, and I'm reflecting on the swiftness of time because our task for today is to pick our favorite picture from February. Of course, Colter is such a darling, handsome, precious, cute, adorable (and so on and so on...I'm not biased of course), little man that it is hard to choose just one. Here's one of the top fifty.

Happy Favorite Foto Friday!

Scrambled Cerebrum

How do people manage to buy a house when they still own one? Real estate ventures seem so confusing to me! John and I are considering making an offer on a foreclosed house and even just thinking about the whole process is frying my brain. :) We don’t want to sell our house until we know we have a place to live, so that means we’d have to have two mortgage payments for awhile (providing we can even get approved for a loan). We could swing that for awhile, but come December, we’d have to start forging for berries and hunting rabbits (unless I happen to get a full-time online teaching job, which I’m trying to get). Houses have been selling in our neighborhood, and the real estate agent we’ve spoken to acts like our house would sell within a few months, but what if it didn’t? Maybe we should try to sell our house first and hope that the house we want to buy is still on the market? Then we would probably be homeless for awhile. Plus, we want to make really low offer on the foreclosed house that the bank probably won’t even accept, so there’s no real reason to even be thinking about this. Probably none of this rambling makes any sense. That’s what’s going through my head right now though. Nonsense. Have a nice day!