An ongoing project.

The last big project left in our house is the addition. We need to redo the ceiling (and re-seal some of the roof), paint the walls, build a little bit of wall, redo the flooring and maybe get a door for it. Lots of things to do, and that's my project for the week because I'm tired of looking at it. The whole room is in a constant state of "when we get to it" and it's draining.

So I'm doing something about it. First, I had to clean out the basement so that we will have a place to put all the stuff that we're just storing in the addition. See that giganto TV box in the back of my truck? The one for the TV we don't have anymore? It's full of other boxes and jars that we can't use and various other things we don't need. There's also a smaller box in the truck that you can't really see. The basement looks great comparatively, but you won't see any pictures because it's still the basement, and it's still not pretty.

Then I needed new shelves. We do have a lot of wood shelves, but since the basement takes on water in the spring and occasionally after a heavy rain, we don't really want to put wood down there. The shelves aren't going to be sitting in water, but they'll probably get a bit damp on the bottom. So a trip to IKEA was in order. I knew that I wouldn't be able to fit everything in my car with Katie in there too, so she got to stay and play with Trey while I went to the city.

You can't see it very well in this picture, but my poor car was riding quite low in the back end.

And this is why.

I figured if I was going to go without a carseat, then I may as well take advantage of the situation.

The four big boxes. A desk, an office chair, a dresser, and some flooring from the as-is pile to put under the dryer instead of the carpet we're going to put in the other room. This pile doesn't look all that impressive until you realize that the flooring is 4.5 feet long.

Plus 24 little boxes for the shelves.
And various other small things I picked up as well.

Who needs a truck?