Tuesday

The house is slowly getting better. More boxes packed. More walls painted. More baseboards cut.

I started putting photos from my Project 365 into an album. I want to print them all out and have a complete album. No scrapbooking or photobook. Just a plain old album to flip through. I'm loving it so far.

Hubs and I had a little date night to see "Sitter" at the cheap theatre for $4. The movie was RIDICULOUSLY loud until Roy went and asked them to turn it down. Also the 4 people sitting beside us reeked of weed to the point that 4 people went and complained and we had an employee standing in the theatre the whole time watching them. Good times. And the movie was pretty hilarious.

Speaking of hilarity I'm reading "Assholes Finish First" by Tucker Max. Its a "one more page, just one more page" kind of book. If you have a sense of humour and aren't easily offended (aka don't have objections to swearing, drunkenness and meaningless sex) you need to read it. That's what I'm going to go do now.

All Caught Up

I've caught up on my editing of my Project 365. I'm sure I'll get behind again but for now it feels great!
We spent more time at our house today making it "sellable". One room fixed which means only three more to go. Yes there are only four rooms in our house!

Every day Ella is getting better and better at sitting on her own. The smarty pants figured out how to drink with a straw tonight. She's just too tiny to lift a sippy cup but we're ready to start transitioning off the bottle.

At her six month appointment last week my little monkey was a whole 13 lbs 7 ounces and 25 inches long. 9th percentile for weight and 25th for height. But my doctor said as long as there is chub to grab she's fine. She's just petite.

It has saved me tremendously on clothing. She's still in 0-3m sizes. But socks still don't stay on her feet because of her little bird ankles. So she lives in tights and onsies. Looks pretty darn comfortable to me!

A 365 Update plus a little bit more

I'm almost caught up with the 365 updates, I'm hoping to keep posting them on a daily basis or every two days instead of having to do all these massive updates!

Life has been a little out of sorts lately. We're in the process of getting our house ready to sell so we've moved over to my inlaws. Attempting to do renos in 660 square feet with a 6 month old is no fun. We'll be staying here while we attempt to sell the house as well. I've never done it but I can only imagine how challenging it would have to be to get out of the house with an hours notice with Ella. Not to mention keeping the house spotless at all times. Way too many headaches.

Ella has her own little space in the "office" with her very own closet! I can't even tell you how excited I am to put her clothes onto tiny hangers, TINY HANGERS!

Homebuyer's tip: Don't buy a house without closets. It sucks. Like a lot.

We're going back and forth to our house every day working on it. There is not too much to do but with the hubs being out of a job for the moment its pretty much the perfect time to work on it.

Hmm I just realized my updates were out of order. Scheduling issues I guess...

Daily 5x7: #3

Furnace Troubles

When I woke up to use the bathroom this morning our house was ridiculously cold. I thought it was more like 3 am when our house is usually freezing but when I saw it was 5 am I knew something was wrong. Our heat usually kicks on at 4:30am. I grabbed my phone to look at the temperature on the thermostat and it was 13 C/ 55 F degrees. Normally our house drops down to 16 C/ 60 F overnight which is chilly but when we are under the blankets not an issue. However 13 was just too damn cold.

I told hubs the furnace wasn't working and he told me I was sleep talking or dreaming. Soon enough he realized I was serious and went to take a look. So happy that hubs is a plumber which means he learned about furnaces and gas in school and had some idea of what to do.

After a lot of clanging around and trips to the garage he got it working again. Shortly after he had to leave for work but he was lucky because at least he was going where it was warm. It took close to 3 hours for our house to get remotely warm. I stayed under 5 blankets on the couch watching bad reality tv from the PVR...16 and Pregnant/ Teen Mom if you must know, I've just discovered it and am slightly obsessed!

For now our furnace is working and I really hope it stays that way since outside isn't warm at all!

Reusable Containers- After

I'm so sick of snow and cold. This morning with the windchill it was -29 C/ - 20 F. Friday is supposed to be -39 C/-38 F with the windchill. I was planning on going to the school I volunteer at but since I have to bus it across the city with like 4 transfers that is SO NOT happening! I am completely happy to just stay in my warm cozy house under a lot of blankets!

I finished sorting and organizing the reusable containers today. I found some great colourful baskets at the dollar store and four of them fit great on the shelf. Each basket contains a different brand of containers with one of the back ones also containing a couple Bento boxes and cereal containers. Now I just have to pull the basket out and take it to the counter when packing up food.

Reminder of the before:

Containers everywhere!

And the after:

You can see in the first two pictures that the rest of the cupboard is still a disaster but just avert your eyes and pretend you didn't see that... One step at a time! 

My week one of the 52 Week Organizing Challenge is officially done and it is only halfway through week 2! Alright! 

For my week two project I'm going to organize all my stickers. I have a container full and never use them because I can never find what I'm looking for! More on that later... 

Hope your week one of the challenge has gone well :) 

Tiny Spaces

My husband just laughed at me as I went to put my memory card into the printer to upload some pictures. In order to do so I have to stand by the front door in the 3 foot space between it and the printer. Then once I sat down in my chair I rolled right into the middle of the living room. We both laughed that time. Have I mentioned yet that our house is small? Don't get us wrong, we feel so lucky that we were able to buy a house and most days we love living here but some days we just want to scream.


Our house is 63 years old and 660 sq ft. Our garage is 661 sq ft. Yes, our garage is bigger than our house which of course was a huge selling feature for my hubs, Being old the house definitely has its quirks. We are pretty sure that the floors are starting to slope as well. One or more of the previous residents fancied themselves as the next Mike Holmes. They were not. At all. The longer we live here the more we discover the remains of their less than superb handyman/women skills. By far the most annoying is the dishwasher that was installed slopping forward resulting in the top rack constantly sliding out EVERY SINGLE TIME WE CLOSE IT!


Regardless, I still love this house and am loving the challenge of trying to make such a small space functional. I get to try new solutions all the time and constantly day dream about how to make it all work. Once the weather warms up (I laugh at myself saying this as we won't get "warmer" weather til probably March...maybe) I plan to reorganize the garage to provide extra storage space. Our basement currently looks like this

But once its redone we want to use it as a family room and craft room for me! One day, one day. 

I plan to post before during and after pictures of spaces as they come together. For now I will keep rearranging, reorganizing and reminding myself that I really do love this house!