Re-arranging

Well, we'e been doing some re-arranging in our house. It's been a BIG job! The first priority was to move Leanna into a room of her own. She was getting to be a light enough sleeper that we couldn't walk through our bedroom while she was sleeping lest she wake up. Which was not a good thing when she went to bed before we did at night, or I needed to run in after a hanger or something while she napped. So we cleared out the storage room of all except the big shelves where my canned goods are stored and the changing table/dresser, painted the ceiling, put up a new light fixture, and moved her in! She was NOT at all happy about the change for the first couple of times I laid her down, but she's already accepted it and is going down nicely as usual.

Leanna's new room

The still-storage part of Leanna's new room!

We inherited a couple new dressers while in MN helping my folks with their rummage sale. We plan to sell our bedroom set in order to have room for these other dressers, as a few pieces in the set are not meeting our needs for maximum storage capacity per square foot of floor space taken up. So in the midst of moving Leanna out of our room, we also moved our big chest of drawers out and brought a family heirloom in to replace it. Plus the book shelves and desk from the storage room was transferred to our room to make room for the crib. It was a job getting it all arranged, but in the midst of it all our bedroom got a thorough cleaning which it badly needed! So, now it's time to get all the odds and ends into new spots, or just dispose of it, which is getting to be a bit of a challenge. Plus there are some thing that never went back to their places in the kitchen and living room after the remodel project (which isn't quite done yet either!) and that must be worked at too.

Any day now we'll be harvesting buckets of green beans and cucumbers, in addition to the zucchini and red beets and cherry tomatoes we're already eating. We can dig potatoes, carrots, and garlic any time. The corn has tasseled and the muskmelon is started to show some netting on 6-7 inch fruits, with the watermelon close behind in size. Bell peppers aren't quite ready yet, but the jalapenos are, and the tomatoes are starting to get an orange hue to them. Of course the peas are done--and plowed under. Lettuce is also finished for the heat of the summer, but I soon want to plant some more for a fall crop. Summers meals are always SO yummy and healthy! Oh yes, we got a box of peaches too. We're eating a lot of them fresh, plus I froze some and made pie with some. Thankfully I didn't need to can any this year as peach prices are high. But I can hardly wait for the blueberries to come in!!! That's my favorite time of all. A whole 10 lb box of blueberries, and we can eat as many as we want fresh before they need to go into the freezer to await blueberry pancakes and blueberry cheesecake and all sorts of other goodies.

We decided to start feeding Leanna a few solids, ever so little and ever so slowly, but Jere started it the other day feeding her his fresh piece of peach and she absolutely devoured it. So I tried siting her in her chair and feeding her little pieces of peach to help keep her occupied the other day. It kept her occupied alright, but I don't think she actually got any inside that time!

So that's the story of our lives for the moment. Seems everywhere we look there's more things coming up we need to do or be at or help with, so there's no fear at all we'll be bored. :-) But God is good, and I wouldn't trade life with my little family for anything!!!!