before and after pics

so embarrassing as this may be, here's my before and after pictures of our master bedroom.

here's the before. we decided to sell an old bookshelf, pack up most of the closet, and buy new furniture.

neither of us have ever had a matching bedroom set before, so it was an exciting day for us.

(please don't judge us from the messiness.)





here's the after picture. we bought our furniture at rooms to go and actually got a free tv. woohoo.

we've now listed the house and it's been on the market since friday. no showings yet. we'll see...we'll see.


more pics to come of the rest of the house. i don't have before and afters, but you'll get to see our show-your-house-at-a-moment's-notice- cleanliness. ;)

clean

so this morning a maid came to our house and cleaned the whole thing from top to bottom. our wonderful realtor does this for her clients before putting the house on the market. isn't that sweet?

let's bask in the glory of a clean house. mmm...smell that smell? that's the smell of CLEAN, baby.

so as of tonight at 7pm, our house is on the market. let's pray it sells in a few days. --because keeping this joint clean for more than 2 minutes at a time is pretty darn close to impossible.

almost before and after

despite the fact this blog never has pictures, i actually DO love them. the problem is most of my pics are of my children. and since 3 of them aren't bought and paid for (it's a joke, people. we here at marge's house do not actually believe in baby markets) we can't post pics of them. but come july (yep...july!) i will probably have a picture of a little man to show you. he will finally be ours. could life get any better?

anyway, this post was supposed to be about our lovely bedroom furniture that we just got. i had great before and after pictures in mind. except there's a problem. it's still....not.....here.

yep. i've waited all day long, and i DO mean all day. they could've been here at 8, but no.
could've been here around lunch, but no.
could've been here during nap and wake up the kiddos and i wouldn't have cared, but no.
it's 2:36 and they've not shown up yet.

so no lovely before and after pictures yet. but i promise they're coming.
because here's the deal:
the lack of posts and the pretty before and after pictures are all representative of yet another life change.
we're putting our house on the market. some might say, "well marge, you have three 'pending' children in your home, a sick baby most of the time, a husband who recently graduated from grad school, and other little details that make your life interesting" and then i say, "thanks you're so kind. thanks for paying attention," and then you say, "but isn't this a bit much? don't you need some sort of stability?" to which i would say, "why of course not. where's your sense of adventure?" and then you'd say, "well marge, you amaze me."
--i love our conversations. you always say the most insightful things. ;)

we found a house we pretty much love the mostest, but we want to sell our house before buying another. crazy you say? well that's how we do things around here. could this mean we end up homeless with 4 small children for possibly several months at a time? yep. woohoo!

so we've been working like crazy people cleaning, packing, staging, gardening, and the like.
and we will put our house on the market in about 5 days.
total time spent preparing the house for sale: 2 weeks.
what was on our to-do list you ask?
make a flower bed/weed, put up iron art outside, hang shutters outside, clean up toys, paint living room, clean out closets to show size, pressure wash sidewalk, get bedroom furniture to show off our loveliness, clean out and streamline laundry room, put mulch around trees, get kitchen cleaned up with nothing on fridge and a pretty pantry, sort through everything to do a garage sale, sell our playground out back, and much much more. we only have a few things left. we are quite the overachievers. whew. i need to sit down.

so next time i promise...before and after pictures.

acceptance

i have a confession to make.

you might need to sit down.

despite the title of this blog, i have been told by a dear friend of mine that i might, in fact be, "trendy." i think she may be right. my name is marge, and i am trendy.

i know. i know. this devastates me too.

but the first step is to admit you have a problem.

i drive a suburban, i own an iphone, i live in a new subdivision, i own TOMS, i have exotic children who are adopted/foster, i blog.

i confess this so we can all grow closer. the truth shall set you free. i have no intention of changing any of these trendy things about myself. so i guess from now on the blog will be called "in utter acceptance of trendy-ness."