December 18, 2012 Florida House

Our Florida Home: More Updates
corner of living room in our Florida home

Updates on our Florida vacation home

 

During the Thanksgiving Holiday, we took a quick trip and were able to get a few things done on our vacation home…here are a few pics of the slow but steady progress we are making in Florida.

While I’m itching to replace the drapes in the living room that came with our house, the fact that some of our living room furniture has arrived is making it easier for me not to focus on them too much.

I like how it’s starting to really come together in there. 

Keeping the green broadloom in the guest room that came with the house, proved not be be as challenging as I had first thought. 

I’m also loving the few little cozy areas that are really starting to take shape…even our landscaping is filling in (plants grow so much faster in Florida…it’s astonishing!)
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October 30, 2012 life

Relief

Thankful to be on the other side of hurricane Sandy. While this super storm has knocked out our power and our phones and even our trusty generator of ten years, (which we are still hoping to have repaired by hopefully, tomorrow) we are all safe and sound with little, to no property damage. Feeling very grateful (even if I do have to remind myself several times a day, while we are all cooped up here together). It could have been a lot worse. 

Tonight we will dine by candlelight again. Although it will not be even half as glam as this photo from Style Me Pretty suggests, it will be alright. It will be cozy and we’ll all be together. It might be some time before our little town can untangle from this mess and power gets turned on again, but after hearing stories from friends and news reports of true devastation in the wake of Sandy, its hard to feel anything but relief. I hope you are all safe and sound. For more information about donating to the Red Cross Hurricane relief fund, please click here.

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October 28, 2012 life

Nervous Energy

I was first going to give this post the title “calm before the storm”…but truthfully, after reading and listening to all the news and weather updates related to Hurricane Sandy, right now, there is nothing calm about my mood. We’ve secured all the outdoor furniture, potted plants and urns, gassed up the cars, shopped for food, charged up our iEverythings and I’ve now cleaned every surface in the house at least twice. Extreme weather makes me very anxious and I know from my twitter and facebook feeds, I’m not alone. Schools here in the tri-state New York area have already decided to close Monday and Tuesday. It’s probably safe to assume we will not have power, possibly for as long as a week…it’s happened before.

So, if this blog goes silent for a while, chances are we are all hunkering down in the basement, where I’ll most likely be eating my weight in fun-sized Snickers. Our basement is thankfully finished and comfortable. We have a generator that powers the bare minimum, making the house habitable and safe. I’m really just worried about property damage, my kids’ Halloween being ruined (again) and the inconvenience of children home from school with no cable or internet (needed to run my business)…first world problems, all of them, to be sure.

Fingers crossed that this storm either dies down or doesn’t live up to all the hype. Stay safe everyone!

Image 1 via StyleMePretty Image 2 + 3 via TheChive