It's a sunny 49°F out. My sweet Shaun got us a little fire pit that we're excited to use. I'm sipping a not-half-bad-for-a-first-try London Fog tea that I made while watching balloons pass. It's a nice, relaxed morning.
Then there's a bunch of rustling in the bushes and out pops this thing. 😂😂😂 Of course. It's her "duty" to fertilize them, I guess. I don't know where she's gonna poop if we re-do our landscape to a less water-intense desert-scape without bushes.
Things have been going well. I finished painting the kids' bedrooms over the weekend. Shadow chose a dark purple and Kira chose a medium blue. Both rooms look pretty good if I do say so myself. I wish I could say I'm as happy with mine and Shaun's room. We chose a gray hue that somehow looks kind of purple in our bedroom. 😕 I could be totally fine with that except that it took 3 gallons of paint and one of them doesn't match and I didn't catch it right away. Pretty sure that the guy writing in black pen on my color swatch before he scanned it messed us up. I have to figure out how to fix that with the least amount of work. I'm ridiculously tired of painting.
Today we're going to have the kids weed the yard (I had someone show us what the weeds are). It's super easy - these plants are barely stuck in. We're going to try to get some Halloween decorations up outside after that, too. While they're doing that me and Shaun are going to work on steaming the carpets. The animals aren't having accidents inside like when we first moved and brought the dogs in. Thank goodness for that.
Yesterday made a month of us being here. We are slowly but surely getting settled in. We're also trusting the dogs to be alone in the house a little bit now. We were able to leave them unattended for a couple of hours yesterday and no one died and nothing was chewed and there were no accidents. I'm grateful for the progress. I love my new home and I'm so happy to be here but it's hard for me mentally when things are so out of order and I don't have a routine and my self-care stops existing. But, it's getting there and that's great. 😊
I hope you all have a wonderful week. ❤️❤️❤️
