Thanksgiving and Microwave

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!!! Hannah needs our prayers as her Thanksgiving was not very nice :o( We went down to my aunt's house in Ft. Wayne and had a nice time, though I think the older I get the less I enjoy traveling for the holidays. There is something to be said for just staying home and having people come to you. Hopefully on Christmas day that will be the plan. We stayed for two nights and I did get to hit up some Black Friday shopping at a mall near my aunt's house.

My handy husband put in our new above the stove microwave today!!!!!! It looks very nice and as sad as it sounds I'm very happy to have a microwave again. The people that moved out of our house decided to take the microwave with them even though it was supposed to stay!! We got a great deal on this microwave so I'm hoping that it will last a long time!!! I popped some popcorn in it earlier and it shut off part way through but I'm still figuring out how to use it so I'm hoping it was something I did, and not a problem with the microwave.

I guess this may be typical but we're finding more and more little things that are wrong with the house. For example, the garage door sensors are not where they are supposed to be, instead they are just thrown on the ceiling of the garage to be out of the way. Since our house is in a big subdivision with tons of other houses like ours the builders cut corners and half a$$ed things where ever they could. It's getting apparent now that we've been in the house for nearing a month. Another example is that there were large holes in the wall behind the hood that was over the stove. The person just kept putting holes in the wall until he got the wire where it needed to be. R had to replace the drywall to put up the microwave. I'm just praying that too many things don't start going wrong. The other thing we are having to deal with is screw ups my friend's husband made while attempting home improvement projects. He tried to put up recessed lighting in Little Man's room and totally did it wrong so he finally just gave up and left the project unfinished. R is having a fit trying to finish the project.

I'm getting really ansty to get this house in order and unpacked with things all put in their places. It's much tougher than it seems because we have such little time to totally devote to just that. I'm home with Little man all day but it doesn't leave me with too much time to get things organized. I did a lot last week when he was with my parents, but there is so much more to do. The main reason why things are taking longer than we would like it due to money. We need bookshelves, curtains, and tons of other little things. I know they will come with time but it makes it hard to complete the unpacking and organizing when things don't look complete or we don't have the things that we need. All in good time though!

Now it's almost time for Christmas decorating!!!! I bought everything that I needed to complete my festive mantle arrangement and it looks so good. One thing at a time :o)