just thinking.

Today I'm day dreaming of home improvement projects. 
My handy husband and a neighbor put more insulation in the attic last weekend before our princess's birthday party.  It wasn't until that evening when we went to bed that I noticed a crack in our ceiling.. yes. a CRACK.  Mr. B lost his balance for a split second while blowing in insulation, barely touching his shoe to the sheet rock.. but that's all it took to land us a crack in the bedroom.  (and thankfully that's all that happened)
Oddly enough, I like it.  It gives our room character.  But it needs to be fixed.  And it won't be an easy fix, since it's about 2 feet long.  We have textured walls/ceilings, so getting it to blend back in will be terribly difficult.  Great. One more thing to add to the to-do list.  Until then, I'm just going to enjoy it :-)  It reminds me that my husband works hard to provide for our family, and wants us to stay warm this winter. awww...

Okay- more seriously need to touch up paint like our whole house.  I can't even begin to count all the places that need to be touched up.  From moving furniture to toys being driven along the walls, we've got at least half a day of paint touch up to do.

I'd like to paint my daughters room, but right now that has been re-purposed to a play room for the winter.  She is camping out w/ the prince.  So we will paint that when we know what we want to do with it.

Some days I want to quickly finish every little project and get this place on the market, other days I just love it and want to keep personalizing it. 
Honestly we could stand to have more living space.  Especially to house all the children we'd like to have.  Once our basement is done I think we will be more content,, and when I say "we", I actually mean that I would be more content.

I am super unhappy with our dining room situation.  I want the table on tile, not carpet, since there are pretty much always spills at meal times, and most of them make it to the carpet.  The space we do have to move the table to tile is tiny.  And I would need to move our massive hutch first. 
I am in love with this farm house table from knock-off wood.  I want a huge dining room table with the option to make it smaller, I have the perfect idea for it, just not the perfect space.

I have no idea what my style is.  I have said for yeeeeears that I want a cute decorated home.  I love the looks of super modern, but also think the farm house style is adorable.  I have a pretty basic ranch home, neutral colored walls/carpet & tile.

I'm typing whatever comes to mind- so the next thing coming to mind is we are thinking of replacing our carpet.  Either with new carpet, or wood flooring.  I think wood floors would look beautiful, and maybe even make our home look bigger if we could do the kitchen also, but holy crap, it's expensive!  Our home is 1568 sq. feet.  So we might be spending like $5000 on a project like that, just for the new materials.  It's hard to be thrifty and justify $5000 for flooring on a 5 year old home.  So the flooring will wait a few more years.

Focus.... I need to focus...

I pulled all the carpet out of our basement, we had several square chunks that we got a cheap soon after we built our house.  They were dirty, & didn't match, but did make it more cozy.

My goal from now until the end of the year is to spend as little as possible on groceries, and put as much money and time as possible into our basement. 
That is after we get Chad's car fixed.. He has a coolant leak, the shop estimated it would cost about $600 to fix.  Which reminds me, we really need to work on an emergency savings account.  My brother has said he will try to fix it first, and if he's unable to (which wont happen, he can fix anything) then we'll take it back to the shop and pay the stupid $600.

I will say without me having a car this week we are saving money (no shopping!).  & I kind of like being stranded at home, I don't have an excuse for not to getting my "chores" done. 
It has allowed me more time to plan for my overnight away from home.  I know I keep talking about that... I'm quite positive it will be a significant adventure for me.