progress

My mom visited last week for about 4 days and boy were we busy.

In the middle of the madness: (we hung newspaper to get an idea for a valance or cornice board)

One down, two more to go:

And they're up:

One more to hang over the sliding door once we get some more hardware up:


And another really exciting note of house progress: the last few rain storms we've had, we've checked the basement and had no water whatsoever! There have been at least two really good downpours to the point that we're pretty satisfied that it's done *cross fingers* and have talked to the contractor who will put some more soil down and then lay sod. I'm thinking that it will get done before the end of the year, and that is going to be a huge relief!!