We call ourselves "Team Tucker" sometimes when we set ourselves on a project and complete it - sort of a verbal high five to ourselves. Recently we've had several successful projects.
Over the years we've gotten MUCH better at installing things -- some of our first projects were definitely learning opportunities - and we had a very successful and quick project recently. We installed an under cabinet radio in the kitchen and it has changed my mornings. I can now easily find out about the traffic, news and weather and its already come in handy -- I knew about a large wreck and was able to adjust my route as needed. We can even attach an ipod to it.
Our most recent project, we spent the morning of Memorial Day going through and re-organizing our garage. It looks like a completely different garage, we were able to get nearly everything up off the floor and have clear paths to our cars. I really wish I'd done a before/after photo....oh well. We set most of our 'to donate' items down at the end of the driveway and nearly all of them disappeared overnight -- some were perfectly good items, just things we didn't need any more. Happy to see them get some more use with someone else.
We are making use of some old items we had -- we replaced our food storage (I call them all “tupperware” even though ours are Rubbermaid) items in the kitchen and held on to the old ones to use in the garage - clear storage makes me happy since I can see what is in it, and it won't fall open like cardboard boxes, or hold the items hostage like a tin that was storing a few tools. That tin finally went into the trash. I have to take organizing in small pieces, but love when I can make a space more usable for us!
The garage project was the end of a really productive weekend.
I was able to see a college friend in town on Friday (Hi Lisa!). Anytime people come to town they have a taste for Tex Mex and I am happy to go along and get to visit with them. I had time to kill before we met, and she'd given me the good suggestion of going shoe shopping, so I found some cute polka dot flip flops -- ready for summer!!
Saturday we got up early thinking that our tv was going to be delivered. We were wrong (its rescheduled for later in the week), but instead of going back to bed we went for a walk/jog – I’m so excited that Kevin has decided he wants to get back into working out and we’re doing it together. Its tough during the week since we are doing it before I leave for work, but we’ve found it’s the best time of day to do it and we can’t talk ourselves out of it/ lose track of time. Feels so good all day to know the workout is behind us, and a fun way to start the day! I call it a walk/jog since we're both just getting started, he used to jog and I am working my way up to doing it.
On Sunday, we went on a very quick trip to my parents’ house to pick up some furniture for K’s brother. He’s moving into a new house and needs items for him and the kids to use and my parents had some furniture they need to get rid of so it was a perfect set up for the furniture to leave their house and go to his. I hadn’t realized that my in-laws had never been to my parents’ house, so it was fun to get to show them around a bit too. I haven’t talked about it on this blog yet, but my parents are in the process of getting ready to move out of the house I grew up in. It is weird to realize that in the not too distant future I won’t be able to go into the house I grew up in….we’ve been helping them go through stuff, we started with finally cleaning out our bedroom (I shared a room with my sister til I went off to college), there were many “blasts from the past” and I had no idea my parents had held onto so many of my school projects. A few I will keep – I made a book for the city’s 50th birthday (20 years ago!) - but most went straight to the trashcan. I hope to recap some items a little later on the blog, though most of it I didn’t photograph since we were busy going through it.
I am so excited for the next chapter in my parents’ lives and seeing them getting ready to move and my brother-in-law’s adventures with the new to him, previously occupied house, reminds me why I am in no hurry to move. I do want to go through our stuff like I'm getting ready to move, its amazing how much we accumulate when we can do 'out of sight, out of mind'.
I know this post is sort of all over the place, oh well...thats how I think some days (read: most days)...its scary how well my sister can folllow my train of thought and sometimes it just loses K.....which remind me, Happy birthday sis!!!
Over the years we've gotten MUCH better at installing things -- some of our first projects were definitely learning opportunities - and we had a very successful and quick project recently. We installed an under cabinet radio in the kitchen and it has changed my mornings. I can now easily find out about the traffic, news and weather and its already come in handy -- I knew about a large wreck and was able to adjust my route as needed. We can even attach an ipod to it.
Our most recent project, we spent the morning of Memorial Day going through and re-organizing our garage. It looks like a completely different garage, we were able to get nearly everything up off the floor and have clear paths to our cars. I really wish I'd done a before/after photo....oh well. We set most of our 'to donate' items down at the end of the driveway and nearly all of them disappeared overnight -- some were perfectly good items, just things we didn't need any more. Happy to see them get some more use with someone else.
We are making use of some old items we had -- we replaced our food storage (I call them all “tupperware” even though ours are Rubbermaid) items in the kitchen and held on to the old ones to use in the garage - clear storage makes me happy since I can see what is in it, and it won't fall open like cardboard boxes, or hold the items hostage like a tin that was storing a few tools. That tin finally went into the trash. I have to take organizing in small pieces, but love when I can make a space more usable for us!
The garage project was the end of a really productive weekend.
I was able to see a college friend in town on Friday (Hi Lisa!). Anytime people come to town they have a taste for Tex Mex and I am happy to go along and get to visit with them. I had time to kill before we met, and she'd given me the good suggestion of going shoe shopping, so I found some cute polka dot flip flops -- ready for summer!!
Saturday we got up early thinking that our tv was going to be delivered. We were wrong (its rescheduled for later in the week), but instead of going back to bed we went for a walk/jog – I’m so excited that Kevin has decided he wants to get back into working out and we’re doing it together. Its tough during the week since we are doing it before I leave for work, but we’ve found it’s the best time of day to do it and we can’t talk ourselves out of it/ lose track of time. Feels so good all day to know the workout is behind us, and a fun way to start the day! I call it a walk/jog since we're both just getting started, he used to jog and I am working my way up to doing it.
On Sunday, we went on a very quick trip to my parents’ house to pick up some furniture for K’s brother. He’s moving into a new house and needs items for him and the kids to use and my parents had some furniture they need to get rid of so it was a perfect set up for the furniture to leave their house and go to his. I hadn’t realized that my in-laws had never been to my parents’ house, so it was fun to get to show them around a bit too. I haven’t talked about it on this blog yet, but my parents are in the process of getting ready to move out of the house I grew up in. It is weird to realize that in the not too distant future I won’t be able to go into the house I grew up in….we’ve been helping them go through stuff, we started with finally cleaning out our bedroom (I shared a room with my sister til I went off to college), there were many “blasts from the past” and I had no idea my parents had held onto so many of my school projects. A few I will keep – I made a book for the city’s 50th birthday (20 years ago!) - but most went straight to the trashcan. I hope to recap some items a little later on the blog, though most of it I didn’t photograph since we were busy going through it.
I am so excited for the next chapter in my parents’ lives and seeing them getting ready to move and my brother-in-law’s adventures with the new to him, previously occupied house, reminds me why I am in no hurry to move. I do want to go through our stuff like I'm getting ready to move, its amazing how much we accumulate when we can do 'out of sight, out of mind'.
I know this post is sort of all over the place, oh well...thats how I think some days (read: most days)...its scary how well my sister can folllow my train of thought and sometimes it just loses K.....which remind me, Happy birthday sis!!!
