Well I've come to accept the fact that I will not be updating our blog for March, April and May until AFTER our move next Monday... and then some more time because I will be unpacking and making our new house a home...but it will happen eventually! I blame it on the fact that I've been sick the last month and life has just been crazy. And yes, I am STILL congested and not feeling great. The first time I went to the doctor was the end of April and here we are sneaking up on the end of May. I'm so ready to feel normal and like myself again! Colt started getting the same symptoms at the end of this past week. However, what has lingered on with me for weeks, he seems to be pretty much over it in about 3 days! To add to my "normal" symptoms of congestion and cough, Saturday I started feeling really flushed. My cheeks were super red and my back all of a sudden broke out like crazy from my shoulders to about mid-back. By Saturday night, I had bumps all over my shoulders and back. It looks like acne but also like a rash... I don't think it's normal. Colt thinks that it might be a reaction to the steroid pills that the doctor put me. Who knows?! Needless to say, it's been a funky weekend, and we've both been kinda sickly.
Colt's parents did come over tonight. His mom brought dinner, and David came to watch the playoff basketball game with Colt, but that was pretty much the extent of our fun and interaction with others this Memorial Day weekend.
We did manage to do some packing and shopping though.
Colt had already done a lot of packing. Since neither one of us were feeling well on Sunday, we opted to not go to the lake with his family.and decided to stay home and pack the rest of our house instead. We're pretty much packed and ready to go with the exception of a couple more boxes.
For our shopping, we did a little shopping on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and today...You would think since we're moving we would want to be getting rid of stuff but that hasn't been the case. This weekend we probably did more shopping than we have in years. We're not normally much on shopping or for really getting out of Forney in general!
Thursday we made a trip to Mesquite to Home Depot for some reason. We ended up stopping at Haverty's and looking at couches. Colt has never really liked our current couches. He misses our old sectional. He found a loveseat recliner he loved. We just weren't sure about it fitting with our current furniture so we had to come home and see if it would work.
Friday after I got home from work, we ran to Mesquite, yet again, to take a mower back. Then we went on to Dallas to get his phone fixed and look around a little at couches and bedding. Our bedding is about 5 years old. After the move, we were planning to switch to more of a gray color scheme. I ordered bedding at JCPenney's on clearance, but when it came in, I wasn't sold. We were going to try and use it still but possibly mix it with some other stuff possibly from Pottery Barn so we did some browsing to see what our options were.
Saturday afternoon, after I did some grocery shopping and Colt visited his grandpa in the hospital, (his grandpa got bit by something and had a bad reaction and has been in the hospital a few days now) we ended up making another trip to Mesquite and Dallas. We ended up ordering Colt's loveseat that we had looked at on Thursday. Since he got a new loveseat, the deal was that I got the bedding I really wanted (just kidding but that is how it worked out)! We ended up going to two different Pottery Barns in Dallas and finding a quilt we wanted that we thought would look good with the bedding we already had. After much debate on price, we bought it. I think Colt nearly had a heart attack. I honestly did too! That night we also had to run a couple more errands and exchange our dishes and take back some other things. By the time we got home, we were exhausted. We ordered Papa John's and called it a night. I was also disappointed because our mix and match bedding try was not successful at all! It didn't look good.
After a day of non-shopping on Sunday, we went back today to buy our bedding we had decided on. Of course one store didn't have everything we wanted so we ended up going to two Pottery Barns again today! We are officially done with that store for a while. On the way home, we stopped and got cheap pillows and a duvet from Stein Mart and grabbed some Chipotle. This is what we made it home with. It defintely doesn't look like someone that is moving OUT.
And here is our final product. I love it! Colt did all the "design" work and pretty much picked everything out. He's really pretty impressive :) He really did lay out all the pillows and decide on everything we were buying. What can I say... he's good at it and I'm not a decision maker! Our bedroom walls in the new house are gray so I think it's going to look great! We also plan on having this bedding for a lot of years to come, or at least we better.
Now off to bed to get ready for a short work week. This Thursday will actually be my last day in the office before our move and before I transition to working remotely. That's only three more days in the actual office, and I have a lot to get done before then!
