If you read this blog, you're probably my friend. And if you're my friend then you you most likely know by now that we just had a baby. We wanted to do it the old-fashioned way and wait until after he arrived to make any announcements. After these few years of pregnancy woes, it felt right to avoid the intensity that social media sharing can bring. I say this acknowledging that it is not the right choice, just the right for us choice.
And it was very easy to avoid social media and every other kind of media these past many months! I don't think I've ever felt so tired in my life! But I missed blogging and writing and am going to try to come back to blogging regularly. Also, we have some more big news: we finally got high-speed internet. In an effort to make it possible for my husband to do his work from home on the nights he's on-call, we bit the bullet and had commercial-grade internet installed. Otherwise, we were looking at 6mps as our max speed. Your cell phone can download data faster than that. It used to take several minutes to upload a single photo. Hopefully now this will move more quickly and it won't feel quite so self-defeating.
But before I put up what is close to 100 photos, here's one more photo of the new little man in our lives. Note the cheeks. Don't hurt yourself on those cheeks little man!
After we moved in our new home, I had a few requests to put up photos of our new home. It feels like a thousand months ago now but that's not possible since that would be slightly over 83 years. It's actually only been 20 months. That's about 19 months too late to share the photos. Here they are though and I'm excited to share them since the upstairs 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms have been renovated. Everybody loves a before & after, right? So now I have that to look forward to! And now, without further ado, our home.
When you walk in the front door, to the left is a sitting room now being used as a music room.
Directly across from that is the dining room. No, you may not have the wallpaper and the broken chandelier. They are one of a kind, people. Plus the wallpaper is already gone. The chandelier still graces our home though.
If you go upstairs, we have the rooms dedicated to the children. First we have my daughter's room.
And the bathroom.
The toilet and shower are in a separate room. You can't make up this much blue tile.
This bathroom was begging to be renovated, I heard it. It would call to me in the small hours of the morning asking me to rip out the blue and put in marble tiles. I'm happy to say that we have done that now.
There is the third bedroom that is now the nursery.
And there is the bedroom for my older son.
I don't know if you noticed but each bedroom has a different hideous carpet.
The two boy bedrooms share a bathroom. It's too tight to be able to get a good photo.
That's the upstairs. Back downstairs, behind the dining room is a living room.
Right by the living room is the kitchen and an eating area.
Then there's the master bedroom. It's huge and very masterly but it is just...so not nice.
The master bathroom is just as unattractive with two separate vanities and a very large jacuzzi tub.
And there are two master closets.
There's another full bathroom on the first floor (this one has a green toilet)...
as well as another half bath. The yellow toilet in this bath has a mermaid handle to flush it. It's just weird.
There is a utility room here...
and it leads to the family room. This room was used to homeschool no less than 12 children. In the original rendition of this home, this used to be the garage.
The family room has beautiful views to the north side of the property where we have the upper and lower ponds. There are also four more bedrooms with a bathroom and a small kitchen that are not photographed. They don't look any better than the rest of the house. Too bad I didn't get photos of the roof since that's the next renovation project due to the water that comes seeping through the ceilings during rainstorms. Anybody see that movie "The Money Pit"? We bought that house.
I also can happily say that it only took mere seconds to upload each photo. Blogging has just become a whole lot more accessible in this neck of our village. Seriously, we live in a village. It's technically a municipality just outside of Carbondale that is too small to be a city and calls itself a village. It's the perfect setting for our rambling, dilapidated country home. But maybe by the time we finish renovating this home, we will be located within a half a mile from a convention center. Nearby Walkers' Bluff Winery is said to be in the planning stages of constructing said convention center, complete with an indoor water park and a casino. I've heard the backbone for all their modernization is fiberoptic internet.
