Weeks events

Colton got his first cold of the season. Monday night he had rosey cheeks and 'sick eyes' and he went to bed with a bad cough and was up all night. I stayed home with him Tuesday because of his cough and slight fever and he seemed to be a little better by the afternoon, but by bedtime he started running a significant fever. His fever seemed to be down Wednesday morning and we stayed home again. By the afternoon he seemed to be getting back to his old self, but still coughing, but getting better. Luckily I have a job were it's not an issue to take time off and was able to stay home with him the last two days. I'm sure Colton was happy to get out of the house after being cooped up for two days. Short week for me!

Got some stuff done during the last two days. Repainted part of the bathroom after we installed the new tub and started cleaning out the downstairs bedroom as we're going to make this the office/Cole's play & TV room. No sense in wasting the space if it's not being used. Still need to clean up the basement and do some more painting. Finally bought a new washer and dryer after we were fed up after constantly drying our clothes for 2 hours for them to be completely dry. Turns out the new washer doesn't work; it doesn't agitate and spin so we're left with sopping wet clothes. Just our luck.... Home Depot will be out to fix it on Friday.

It looks like the 'sale' of our house isn't going to go through due to a series of events on the buyers end. As much as I didn't want to be here another winter, Chuck and I have decided to take the house off the market, get the garage floor and some other stuff done (frame and sheet rock the basement, level the deck and restain, new kitchen and entry window and door and a possible redo of the kitchen cabinets and refinishing of the dining room floor) and put it back on the market in late winter. Hopefully these improvements and the economy will result in a fast sale with some profit next year. While I'm really disappointed, we'll get through it, and the house we're suppose to buy will be there when the time is right.

Chuck and I will be going to the Bison Homecoming game on Saturday and Chuck will be cleaning out the garage getting it ready for the new floor this weekend. I'm possibly going to do some painting and cleaning of the basement, setting up Colton's new bed and rearranging his room and I'm getting my hair colored tomorrow morning. We'll see how ambitious we are at getting this all done....