Before And After
Here’s an idea of what my floors looked like before Mike refinished them:
Bedroom Before:
Bedroom After
Dining Room Before (with floor already sanded. It looked a lot like the Bedroom Before)
Dining Room After
Play Room Before (Again think Bedroom Before in terms of what it looked like before it was sanded)
Playroom After
Girls Bedroom After (I think I deleted the ‘before’ picture but I know I already showed you that one on an older post)
Don’t the floors look great? Those who have been to my house will especially appreciate how different and new they look. The only room that needs to be done now is the living room. We’ll actually have to stay somewhere else for about three days since we won’t be able to use our house at all while the living room is being refinished. It’s the hubbub of our house and you can’t “get there from here” without walking through the living room.
We’re slowly taking the packed boxes in the garage from our almost move in January and unpacking them. The girls are especially excited for us to find their Zhu Zhu Pets we had packed away after Christmas. It’s kind of sad for me to unpack the stuff that I had excitedly packed away thinking we were moving into a bigger house. I had thought that I wouldn’t be using that stuff again until I was UNpacking it in a new home.
*SIGH*
In unpacking these boxes we’re also taking stock of what we really need and what actually fits in this house. If the item doesn’t fit that category going to our yard sale at the end of May/ beginning of June.
I had planned another part to this post to be about the Before And After of how God has been working in me lately. Especially after the miscarriage. I realized that’s going to need a post of it’s own.
So be waiting for it!
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Katelyn update:
We’ve had several more mini bug episodes since last Wednesday. Nothing like the original one, however. She’s slept through the night a couple of times but has also gotten up several times needing reassurance that there were no bugs in the room and that they were only in her mind.
The direction and steps I’ve taken with her that are working are:
~Praying with her. Reminding her that Jesus is protecting her and He won’t allow any harm to come to her.
~Reminding her that seeing bugs or NOT seeing bugs are in her control. She chooses what she sees and she’s the boss of her bugs. If she’s seeing bugs it’s because she’s choosing to.
~Reminding her that spending the day at the doctor’s was not fun. If she continues to see bugs it means she’s sick. If she has to go to the doctor she misses out on playing with her friends. Is that what she really wants?
~ As a last resort we have also put her in the shower ( at midnight!!! Aye!!) to calm her down and soothe her and then I’ve rubbed my Neutrogena Sesame Body oil on her and told her that would help her skin feel better and smell nice. That has worked wonders. But, I’d prefer not to have to do that in the middle of the night a lot!
~Keeping more lights on.
~She’s woken up coughing which has triggered her to wake up in the middle of the night. I’ve been giving her some honey before bed and kept her humidifier going. That has also made for more restful sleep.
~ One thing I don’t want is to tell her is that certain things will keep the bugs away or any such thing. No showers to “wash the bugs off”, “special lotion that keeps bugs off and keeps them away”, “sprays that will protect her room” or ” a special doll that wards off bugs”. I feel like that is just going to feed into her fear. I don’t want her depending on those things. Once that special lotion doesn’t “work” anymore or the doll is protecting her anymore we’ll have to move on to some different, magical thing. I want her to face the reality that there are NO bugs to “keep away”. It’s all in her mind and that’s where she needs to fight them.
She got up three times last night. The first time she kept telling me ” No, mom, there’s reeeaallly bugs in my room this time. Really!” And kept looking under her pillow and her blankets and on her arms and legs. She screamed when I pulled the blanket away to show her there were no bugs. After (irritably) reminding her that she was choosing to see bugs and that if she kept seeing them we’d end up at the doctor again (which she definitely doesn’t want) she settled down. Only to wake up two more times. Thankfully each episode lasted between ten and twenty minutes. I’d much rather be getting up in the middle of the night with a new infant! That’s what’s supposed to be happening. Not with my four and a half year old daughter who is hallucinating.
I called her pediatrician’s office to day for the result of her Strep test since they haven’t called me yet.
Not getting enough sleep is really messing up my daily routine. I’ve been sleeping in which throws off my Bible reading and exercising (meaning, non existent). It also sets a bad tone for the day because I’m irritable and out of sorts.
Here’s for a restful week and winning the battle of the bugs!
Have a great Monday!
