What do you do when your husband's deployed?

Why you redecorate of course!  Paul has been gone a little over a month and I've wasted no time getting the house clean and organized.  I've come to realize who the messy one of us is and his name begins with P.  I do say it is nice to donate tons of stuff to Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation (and they even come pick it up!) as well as donating books to my local library which also has a dumpster out front for recycling paper as a fundraiser. 

Luckily I had a couple of strong men (David & Mat) to come over and move furniture which I am sure they were excited about (especially since David had just moved into a new apartment the day before lol). 




The living room got a new rug for Emma and no more recliner

The master bedroom used to have a dresser on this wall



which got moved to this wall along with the dresser from the guest room

the dresser from this wall got moved to the guest room



the guest room bed got rotated to a new position



along with the dresser from the master bedroom

the upstairs guest room finally has curtains and the bed was moved (these are the curtains from the nursery which now has white panel curtains instead)

no more junk in the corner!

and the man cave (with the recliner)

notice the lack of crap on the desk

So, I've had a great time throwing out crap, de-cluttering, organizing, and decorating.  I come from a long line of hoarders (ahem) so it is difficult for us to get rid of stuff, but it sure feels good to have more room in the house and finally get rid of boxes of old papers and what not that I've been carrying around for years.  Now if I can just get Paul to throw away receipts!