Good morning!
Bobbi, wishing you a great trip! Can’t wait to hear about it, we’ve watched a lot on the Treasure and hope to go on it ourselves one of these days! Looks so amazing! Glad you got the
ECV.
Easy, glad you had a nice trip!
Taz, I hope Dad is doing better.

Hope everyone here is well. Thinking about Mona and hoping they’re ok.
Judique what kind of car do you drive now? Sounds exciting to get a new car. My SIL told me the other day she got one. She’d been driving a 2010 Chevy and got a 2025 Chevy (BIL works at dealership so she got a good deal). It’s kind of a tough decision if you like everything about the car but it’s a little small. I went from driving 7 passenger cars to a 5 passenger car and I miss having a 7 passenger car but I also like what I have (which I had gotten because Mom could no longer climb into my Jeep). Next time I’ll probably go with a van again in anticipation of grandkids (and a reality now, actually). I always have 4W or AWD due to work, and I think the only van left in AWD is a Sienna (I’m in Toyotas now and really like them), however when we travel we always get a Pacifica and I really like them, as well. Had a Town and Country AWD when kids were little and two regular 7 passenger Pacificas w AWD but the newer vans don’t have it. Not sure I’ll really need it if retired, so these are all the thoughts that swirl around in my head too. We’ll have to see what happens. Starting to have some Jeep issues w DH’s car which always happens when they get up there in mileage, unlike the Toyotas. Good luck with your decision. Right now I like not having any car payments!
Getting tired already of this awful cold weather! When I left work yesterday I was all sweaty and had no coat on walking to the garage - you should’ve seen people looking at me!
Apartment update, we’ve made a lot of progress. Every day we say it’s hard to believe how much we’ve put into this and still aren’t done! Detail work over the past week or two: Got the handles on cabinets and under counter lights up (which are great, easy, and have a remote). Got a lot of dishes and things DD had put aside put into the cabinets. Turns out she has just about as much cabinet storage as we do in the main house! Everything looks so pretty with the navy blue dishes she chose, too. Got a picture from Disney framed and got that up, along with a mail and key holder. Got all the towel hooks up in the bathroom, and the mirror on the back of the door. Bedroom mirror (over dresser) arrived but wasn’t quite what we’d wanted, DD had picked it out over several dozen other choices. It looked like it was blue enamel on the outside, really pretty, but turned out to be wood with the blue painted on to look like enamel, wth? But because it was huge and would be a pain to return, we put it up for now. She put her hamster home in front of it so you can’t see a lot, but I think it’s ok, just disappointed. She’ll live with it. Got the new fabric shades all put up and they look nice. She got room darkening ones in the bedroom but the rest are light filtering but you can’t see through them from outside, which is nice. A guy from the company came in and put them all up. (DH wound up having a shot in his back last week due to sciatica from all the work lifting and carrying he’s been doing so trying to give him a break.) The guy had forgotten to put up one set of ends on one of the windows but he came back the next day and brought them, DD put them on, it was easy. Still have to: put in new bathroom faucet and install kitchen garbage disposal. Debating on getting a plumber for that since a) DH will do it, but hates plumbing

and b) I don’t want to see him crouching under sinks since he’s had the shot and feels a little better. Just have to find a plumber or speak to our builder who built our in law apt if he has availability (he’s a plumber too). The guy who did the floors was scheduled to put them backsplash up but never showed, so that still has to be done. I’m a little worried cause he’s supposed to be doing our floors in March and I want to make sure he’ll actually show up as it’s the main part of the house and we can’t go weeks with it being half done, especially with two to three (DS’s) dogs running around here. but he’s a nice guy, is very affordable and did a fantastic job - when he shows. Supposedly he’s on vacation that week in March so he can come every day. We’ll see. Will try to get some pics later.
Have to get my day going, I hope everyone has a nice weekend!
