Friday, after the F1 Sprint qualifying, (1:45) we headed over to my FIL's house as Greg and I wanted to grab a few things of his for our house before we donate the rest. We needed kid lifting labor, so they had to go and we needed the truck, which Emily drives to school. She drove the truck over with her Dad and I drove my CRV with Aidan. It's about 50 minutes away from us. Greg and I have been going through things the last few times we've gone over but told the kids if there is anything they want, to grab it. Aidan's comment, 'this is really weird'. Yup, it is. His next thought, 'OMG - Grandma's is going to be horrible to go through! She needs to wait until Emily and I have places of our own!' Grandma has nice antiques. I'll let him tell her that!
Aidan grabbed a nativity set and the kids grabbed a nice Craftsman set of sockets. They know they are getting 'Papa Andy's' tools eventually and there is enough for a set for both of them from Grandma's house.
Greg and I wanted to grab his big TV and the tv stand to swap out ours. There is also an old library table that is over 100 years old that Greg's Grandmother refurbished from an old library in Ohio. We had Emily look at Tom's dresser and mirror. She likes light wood, but we said it could be refinished and painted. It is made well, as opposed to the one she has now. She opted to take it and will work on finishing it off to her liking. Aidan was eyeing Tom's desk (Greg said it was probably his as a kid!) as he doesn't like his current one and this one has drawers and room to put things. That came home with us as well.
We figured we left the lighter things so Greg and I could do them in the car and took the tv in the car, and the stand and dresser and mirror in the truck. Came home and unloaded.
It was close to 5PM and I was hungry and did not want turkey leftovers. We set the tv up and realized, the remote was left at Tom's house. Well, the kids said we could go back and get it and the remainder of things and eat on the way (thank you Cracker Barrel). After some indecision (do it Sunday or finish it Friday), we got it done. Had a nice dinner and then it was a quick load of the truck, the car got the 3 boxes of things we brought back with papers and photo's to be in the house when we bug bombed it last Sunday and headed home. It was around 8PM at that point, so a 6 hour job!
Kids are heading to Grandma's house today to help her decorate for Christmas after Aidan watches the sprint race at 9AM. He said something about a Football game to watch over there....
Greg will head to his Dad's today to look at something we noticed that needs attention and I'm hoping I get to stay home and sew and finish decluttering so I can put Christmas stuff out. I lost my top of the tv to put things so I need to rethink where things will go this year! I have a feeling I'm going to have to go though, so we will see.
The library table, is going to replace the half banquet table with the printer in my office. I see puzzles on the other half maybe... That is the back, there is a drawer in the front.
The mirror is in great shape for the new dresser for Emily.
from the left, Emily's dresser, my old tv hutch with tv that I need to list for sale or leave out by the road, the new desk for Aidan.
The new tv and tv stand. The light wood does completely change that area from the black hutch.
Aidan says the tv is too big. The picture on it is awesome, I watched The Grinch last night on Prime. I'm thinking he will change his mind after watching his race. Emily says it will take him until at least January to get used to it. He is not good with change!
I did start the Gobble Gobble yesterday during the qualifying for the sprint. Hope to finish the first gobble during the race today. These are the kids ornaments from Grandma this year. Emily got a color guard one with a flag and Aidan got a F1 race car. It's actually the 2008 one... the year he was born!
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