Ladder Back Chairs

I had a mountain of laundry to wash and fold yesterday.  While I folded clothes and made nice stacks on our bed, a voice whispered in my ear to quick check craigslist on my phone for dining chairs.  I found them!  I found them!  I fell in love with two groups of chairs which I thought would go well together and would be a great match for our soon to be new dining table.  I sent a text to Cesar about finding some chairs I liked to warm him to the idea of discussing chair options once home by my side.  It worked!  Cesar like them too!  I made a call to hold the group of four ladder back chairs for Cesar to pick up today.  Lucky for me, Cesar had only a location scout in Jersey for his commercial next week so he had time to play delivery man for me.  The poor guy drove all day long.  Down to Jersey, out to Long Island for the four chairs and over to Westchester for the two end chairs and finally home.  I was very excited to see him pull up the drive!  I ran out to the truck to help carry them inside.  My smile reached from ear to ear.  A few need new rush on the seats, but with littles in the house, I think the chairs will do as they are for a long while.

I also made a Malotov for dessert.  Thinking of you Momsha!

Before & After

Welcome, welcome!  We are far from finished and there is no furniture yet, but you get the idea.  We are all very excited at the progress of our second floor thus far.  For now, the kids and Toula are super happy with the dance floor to run and play in!

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For Megan

I think that each and every time we make improvements to the house, I will always think of Megan Murdoch.  When Megan lived here, I felt she loved our house nearly as much as we do.  She was always so excited to hear about our plans, hopes, and big dreams for the place. 

We first met with a man, who we hoped to be our new contractor, way back at the end of May.  He had thought that he'd remove the wall in our living room sometime end of August, then Hurricane/Storm Irene hit.  It took a while to catch Mike on the phone after the storm.  He wasn't sure when he'd be able to do our job, being that he was bogged down with big, big outdoor projects.  Important projects, like peoples roofs.  I understood and told him that we still felt he was the man for the job in our eyes and that we'd wait.  I've waited these many, many years, I could continue to be patient a wee bit longer.

The other day, I called Mike and got a big surprise.  He might be able to work on our house before Christmas!  That's a Christmas present in itself!  He asked me to call him back the week after Thanksgiving and hopefully he'd be able to pin down a date at that time.  Wow.  All I could think about as I quickly dialed up Cesar's number, is that we might have living room walls for Christmas!

I've been spending my evenings looking through magazines and ideas online to flush out rough plans.  I was inspired about an article I read on color and made a trip to the hardware store.  I've been painting and sewing curtains and hanging pictures and... dreaming.

This ones for you Megan.

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