Changes

We've had some changes in our house. When our business shut down, my dad moved back home to Ashland. We miss him a lot. Kiersa is bewildered as to what happened to her "Bump-ah". She doesn't have anyone to race down the stairs now. It was great having my dad around because he made us his famous biscuits-and-gravy, his delicious homemade salsa and he read my kids Brer Rabbit stories, which is priceless. We grew up on my dad reading us those.

Know you are loved, Dad.

In the 17 1/2 months that we've been living in this apartment, we've had it arranged in a lot of ways.

First, our bed was in the living room, and the kids' bed and the crib were in the one bedroom. Then after I got walked in on by a friendly relative while I was in my skivies nursing Kiersa, we decided to move our bed into the bedroom and put the kids in the living room, and it's been that way since. The crib has moved from the bedroom to the living room and back many times, and a bassinet was moved into the bedroom when Paisli arrived 5 1/2 months ago. When my dad moved in, we moved a second twin bed into the living room and the babies went back into our room. Now that we're down to 6 people again, we took one twin bed out, brought in a recliner and a dresser/bookcase (our $4 garage sale steal) and moved the crib back into the living room.



We also moved the computer armoire into the bedroom so that when Hyrum starts school he can shut himself in the bedroom to work on the computer while the rest of us banish ourselves to the living room/kid's bedroom.

Oh yeah, we moved a couple of our big dining room chairs into storage and brought up a couple of smaller stools instead for the bigger kids. The house actually feels quite large now!