Little House in the Forest

Sandhill 2 (very unromantic name, eh?), our house, is in a col de sac, our loupe, and is stationed among a bunch of other Sandhill houses. We pull up to the drive way, come with me, and explore the inside. We must walk up these step to get to the front door. I know, the steps don't look very nice, but wait till you get inside to judge the house. You see the deep, reddish brown door, carved with an owl in the center, and leaves at the bottom. Turn the key! We will go inside... As you open the door, you see a small flight of steps going down, and a wide set of steps, though equally small, going up. Let's go up first. You look to your feet, Ginger-colored carpet covers the floor. You've reached the top of the stairs, everything is decorated with a forest/Northwest theme. There is only on large room at the top level, but it is used as the kitchen, dining room, and living room, In the living room part, you see two futons, a chair, and a coffee table. Opposite these is a large, real (yay!) fireplace. Next to the fireplace, built into the wall, is a TV. Behind the couch or futon, there's the dining table, only seated for four, unfortunately. towards the left of the table is the kitchen. To the right of the dining table is two sliding doors, let's go through them. Okay, now we're on the deck, and quite high off the ground. On the farther end of the deck, you can see a hot tub. Let's go downstairs now..
Alright, we're in a hallway, turn left. See that door in front of you? No need to go in, that's the bathroom. turn left again to see Beth's and my room. It's rather small, but large enough for a dresser, a table for a record player, a closet, and, most importantly, a double bed (it might be a queen) with a bed table on either side. Do you like how the room is themed with fishes? Let's keep going. Go out the door and go right, down the hallway. Never mind, you follow me. As we're half way down the hallway, look to the left, that door is the laundry room. Okay, keep going. That door there leads to Mom's and Dad's room, with a bathroom attached. There's a door in front of us, let's go in. Follow down the mini-hallway that leads to Katie's, Nathan's, Allison's, and Sarah's room. It's a little tight for four people, but it works. This is one of my favorite rooms because of the bear theme. See that door to the left? It leads to Mom and Dad's room, they're connected.
Well, we're almost done. Back out in our main hallwayh, we see two more doors. One's a closet, one leads to- come on, open it! Okay, okay, not that exciting, it's just a garage. But it does have a pingpong table and fourteen bikes. No, I'm not exagerating, there are really fourteen. Count for yourself!
Let's go back upstairs. Wait, I just remembered. In the kid's bathroom, there's the loveliest picture, come with me. See it? it's of a lady in colonial clothes, leading a white horse down a lane. Alright, let's go back upstairs. it is time for you to bid good bye to this house, but I'm here for a week. Staying here with my little family in the little house in the forest.

My New Post

Okay, what do I write about? Let's see my week so far (and the week before.)

Last.... what day was it? Last Monday we painted the Den. It was kind of boring, by nature of the fact we painted it the same color after we stripped off the wallpaper.

Tuesday we did... nothing. Oh, no, that's not true. We had beautiful, lush, berber, green, well, tannish with a green hint carpet installed. Too many adjectives. We cleaned up after the men left and just walked on the carpet as much as possible.

Wednesday. Nothing. Quite a boring day, nothing really happened. We did a little bit of school, everyone worked in the den, and caught up in school what we missed the day before...

Thursday - After Katie left for Grandma's house, the furniture came. It's beautiful! A rich honey maple that works beautifully with the yellow walls and green carpet. That night, we drilled (or Mom and Dad drilled) holes in the furniture where the plugs were. The next morning, us six kids found the furniture set against the wall, clean and empty.

Friday, Dad took off from work. Mom and Dad worked all day loading up the desks, and us kids got school off because it was the last day of summer break. Does that make any sense? Nevertheless, us kids did not complain. Then Beth and I thought of the idea of filming for our movie the next day. We convinced Mom and Dad to let us, then we did TONS of work to prepare. I mowed the lawn (a fairly large project) so we wouldn't have to do it the next day with the yard work.

Saturday. You guessed it! Yard work. We got it all done by 12:30. Mom even said we had to do a complete and thorough cleaning of the shed. I had to work very hard not to complain when she said that. Beth and I got started on the shed while Mom worked on the rest of the weeding. I'm not sure what Dad was doing... We finally got it all done and had a delicious lunch followed by the arrival of our cousins. After filming two scenes - it took 2 hrs. (?), we met Mom at a store after dropping off the Watts. I know you're getting bored. So-

Sunday was normal and fairly quiet, except after church, we went out to lunch for an end of school (now does that make any sense at all?) and a begging of the new school year with some of our friends, the Geyers, from church.

Monday. We went to our Church Labor Day picnic. It was tons of fun, but rather interesting, too. We played football with almost all the kids. Tackle football. The boys weren't allowed to tackle the girls, and the girls could tackle the boys if they wanted to. Mostly in the first game, the girls just watched the boys tackle each other.

Tuesday. Boring. (Funny, another boring Tuesday) no, actually. It was our first day of school! Yay!!! (JK)

Wednesday, we had science class with a girl from our church, and after finishing the rest of our school, all six of us kids went to the park and rollerbladed/biked for over an hour. And now I'm sitting here, at the computer typing...


Thank you for letting me bore you. (I do realize you only read that thank you if you lasted all the way to the end of the post.





Rollerblading. Rollerblading is amazing. (I am spelling that wrong some how)

I glide, I skate,
stretching my sore muscles.
I spin and push
the wind is in my face,
the sun on my back.
My hair springs lose
it has a mind of its own.
I turn around and go backwards...
I spin again.
right
left
right
left
I push and stretch
I spin. I miss.
I fall and the sidewalk
rises
to catch me
I land roughly.
my hands sting,
my knees ache.
I stand again.
I reach, I jump,
I soar, I fly.