Inside... Outside... Upside Down

Life feels a little bit like something out of a Dr. Seuss book around here right now. I'm doing surprisingly well with it.  I suppose living with four other people who are seriously MESSY will tend to either drive you crazy or help you conform to their way of living.  I guess lately, I've chosen to give up the fight and give in to my inner-messiness. (Not that I was ever the cleanest person in the world but I do have some standards!)  We've had a lot going on so this is just the best way to deal with it for me.

There's a Crib in My Living Room

I hate it when I can't find things.  Most recently, we were having a garage sale so I decided it was time to sell the crib.  It is a great crib and has been super for the last two of our kids but I am not attached to it.  As far as I know, there will be no more babies born to us and we are great with that.  The Little Man would really like a brother of any kind but for now that is not in the plan and hopefully never from my body.  Back to losing things though, I got ready to sell the crib...pulled it all outside for the yard sale and decided it might sell better if it were put together.  Guess what! No hardware could be found for the crib.  Who really wants a crib with no hardware?  All the bolts to hold the bed together were nowhere to be found and I didn't have time, hours before the sale, to search.  So we brought it all back inside.  Unfortunately (and fortunately) I had listed the crib in my newspaper ad for the sale.  A lady came by asking about it and I explained the whole story to her.  She wanted it anyway.  Fantastic! I figured I would finish the sale and be able to look for the missing pieces.  And believe me, I tried.  And tried. And tried.  I have looked everywhere for that bag of bolts.  They are not here.  I have no idea where they could be.  And, you can't just buy crib parts at the local hardware store...they are special.

Thank goodness for the internet!  What did we ever do without it?  I googled replacement crib parts...and Voila, there they were.  I chose one of the sites to inquire about my crib pieces and talked on the phone to the nicest "southern gal" named Paula who quickly sent me all the parts...only they weren't the right ones.  PAULA!!! I called Paula to fix the problem and I've now returned the first set and am waiting to see if the second set will work before handing all the crib parts over to the nice (patient) lady from my sale.  In the meantime, the crib sits (in pieces), for all to see, in the middle of my living room.  Thankfully, the people who would mind don't matter and the ones who matter don't mind...and not too many people have been over to worry about it anyway. 

There's Also a Toilet in My Bathtub

We are getting ready to sell our home of the past ten years.  A fact, that some people in our family are having a hard time with.  I waiver between wanting to cry over it, because of all the memories we have here, and wanting to throw my own personal party.  Being a homeowner is hard work!  Hopefully it will be on the market sometime this summer.  So, Jamie has been doing many home projects in order to maximize the value of our cute little house on a beautiful canyon with soon to be a lovely-mostly-remodeled bathroom and hopefully a spanking new roof due to hail damage!  Not to mention, that any day, it will have a new paint job (outside) and other new features.  Any takers? A lot of these repairs and re-dos are projects we've been talking about doing for several years.  I'm finding it ironic and a little bit sad that we are making our house beautiful for someone else to live in it.  Oh well.  Anyway, there is a toilet in my bathtub (not the same toilet from my Superman post)because Jamie has most recently been working on the bathroom floor, which is looking great btw.  I'm hoping that the toilet will make it back to its appropriate location soon because both it and the tub are a little hard to use this way.  Oh the places we'll go!

I know that these aren't the only things that are upside down in my world, because when you look at life,  isn't it  really a little bit like a Seuss book everyday?  They are, however, the easy things to laugh about.  Everyone needs a little more laughter in their life. 

What is upside down in your world today?

Disclaimer:  When I said 4 messy people live here + me, I really shouldn't have lumped my son into that group...for the most part, he is incredibly clean and organized for a seven year old boy...he does leave his stuff lying around and grunts about picking it up but compared to everyone else, he is a clean freak!  And this mom loves that about him!