IKEA

Well, thankfully things have calmed down since that last post...the lady "Mildred" is healing just great after some major doses of antibiotics. We are so glad she's doing better and her foot is healing great. I was joking with Dani about how we don't have a child yet to write about in our blog, but I guess our old ladies somewhat count! I should write more of the funny things that we experience here more often. I promise we have more hilarious experiences than bad.

Rich and I decided to cure our July 'blahness' by re-arranging our room (which we are kind of confined to on the weekends while other people work our shift)...and have managed to make it cleaner, more organized, and so much more functional! And this is all thanks to wonderful IKEA. :-)

Rich and I have been considering moving out of our nursing home after we've been here a year (which is what we promised them), but we do like this job when it's not so crazy, and the benefits are truly great. After going to Sam's Club this afternoon (where I worked for 4 summers), I was reminded about the fact that any job has his downfalls, and our job seems to have so little compared to it's benefits.

So we figured, maybe we can cure our feelings of being 'cooped up' on the weekends in our room by making our room a better place to be. So today we ventured to IKEA and bought a really cute loveseat so we could have somewhere to actually sit comfortably in our room to watch a movie or read a book. We used to drag the Beehive home's lazy-boy chairs from the living room all the way into our room on the weekends, and they were bulky and took up so much space. Our new loveseat is the perfect size for us to both sit on and cuddle, without taking up the entire room. It makes our room feel less like a bedroom but more like a modern-styled living space, which juxtaposes our very old-fashioned nursing home. This makes it a true escape, and so far it doesn't feel like we are always at work. Even though we don't technically have our own place to call 'home' quite yet, I am reminded of what Richard's mission president told him:

"Live the first ten years of your marriage like nobody would like to live, and you'll be able to live the rest of your marriage like nobody can afford to live."

This gives me hope. It's true, I've seen this manifest itself in so many other people's lives. So here we come, Beehive home, ready to stick it out another 6 months and continue to think long and hard whether we want to remain here another year after that or not. It's worth the effort, I think. We'll hope for the best.

OH, PS...I will post a pic of our new room once we get the right cover for our loveseat. We accidently bought the wrong size...that store can be so confusing!