The New House and Life in It

Mark and I moved into our new house just before Christmas. I think 2013 was the busiest year I've ever had. But now, in 2014, we're able to slow down. Our new bed should be arriving in the next couple of weeks (no more sleeping on a futon!) and we're figuring out what we need to make this house our home.

Mark's parents had been staying with us for the second half of January and took care of a lot of odd jobs around here. The guest bathroom is now perfect with the help of the boys getting the rod for the shower curtain and us girls getting the shower curtain for said rod. We have all sorts of shelves in the garage. We have coat hooks since we realized (after we bought the house) that there isn't a coat closet. We had a great day today and unpacked a bunch of boxes. I felt like a machine getting through so much laundry and making a (hopefully) yummy dinner! I think the three cups of coffee and Ireland's win over Scotland in today's Six Nations game helped.

So things are coming along. Life here is going ok. I know life isn't so great for other people and that makes me appreciate everything even more.

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A Bit of Reading: Mrs. Queen Takes the Train

I started William Kuhn's book on a flight to Boston for a friend's wedding. I then promptly left my book, that I had borrowed from the library, on the plane. Damn those seat-back pockets! I had been enjoying the book so much that I had to head straight to the bookstore to buy a copy. (I then went to the library to pay for the lost one.) I had another flight coming up and knew Mrs. Queen would be excellent company and she was! It was a bit of a silly story involving Queen Elizabeth II just walking out of Buckingham Palace and taking the train to Edinburgh to visit HMY Britannia. I just visited the Britannia a few months ago and I can understand why she would miss it but it doesn't make the storyline any more believable. It has made me wonder about the Queen a bit though. I wonder if she's anything like the way she's portrayed in this novel. She was very likable in the book but I thinkn that's because it made it easier to see her as a real person which I think is a fact that can be easily forgotten.

It was a great easy read and a very sweet story. It was worth all the money spent at the bookstore and at the library!

 

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