I have been...

Christmas came and went with a Blurrrrr!  We had 5 Christmas gatherings/celebrations, 2 performances, 1 dance performance, preschool Christmas parties, 2 cookie exchanges, Polar Express vacation, a trip to the cabin and our house finally CLOSED...all of that in addition to all the normal activities and work between December 16th and December 31st.  The holidays were fun and a little hectic this year.  I'm glad they are over with so that we can get the new house in order and finally move in.  After a few LONG months of waiting to buy a house that was a short sale my plan was to get in there and start working the minute it became MINE, not stopping until everything was finished.  WRONG!  I never imagined it would take this long to close.  Or that it would close a few days before I was going out of town for two back to back trips and a week before Christmas.  I did get in there with a few helpers and clean, knock out a wall, start knocking out a second wall and empty one storage room full of boxes to the house before everything house related was put on hold to enjoy the holidays.  Now that we are back house projects are on the top of my TO DO LIST and I seem to be spending all of my time over there...since Monday I have primed 2 bathrooms, one bedroom, a hallway, most of the ceilings and unpacked and organized almost the entire kitchen.  CONSIDER THIS A WARNING:  many house related Before and After (picture overloaded) posts will be showing up on Totally Lauren Amber in the next few months...I'm excited for everything to come together and to show you how everything progresses.  I think you are really going to like it!