Always Behind

Geeze, I can't seem to keep up with my blog. In my defense I have been a bit busy lately getting ready for our holiday guests, CD & JD, to arrive. They get here tomorrow morning about 10 a.m. So, naturally, we've been trying to get the apartment in presentable shape (which became a bigger task due to the flood last week, but not insurmountable). Sunday we drove out to Lausanne, which is about a 45 minute drive from here. Unfortunately, we were there on the mission of acquiring a guest bed. We decided that perhaps the air mattress just wouldn't suffice for our guests and since we found a very cheap bed on-line we went for it. A couple was getting rid of their bed because they are picking up their lives and moving to Florida! We understood their need to get rid of everything and anything they could at any price. In fact, they gave us tons of stuff for free. Granted, we probably didn't need all of it...but it's difficult to refuse free stuff. There's always this little voice in my head saying, "Why are you taking that? You're just accumulating more junk. You said you weren't going to do that here." but then there's a warring voice saying, "But there might be something good in there. Why would you pass up FREE stuff!?!?!?" So we came away with our little ford fiesta loaded down. It must have been a site our little white fiesta chugging down the highway with a mattress strapped to her little roof. Cars just whizzed by us, little kids faces pressed against the windows, small cheeks squashed against the pane, eyes wide as they craned their necks to stare at this bizzar site as they sped on their way to la maison de grandmere (grandma's house). Thank goodness the bed frame was one of those handy Ikea ones that comes in pieces easy to assemble and disassemble - which was a huge blessing considering we wouldn't have been able to get it home if it were one solid piece! It, miraculously, didn't take us more than an hour to reassemble the bed in our guest bedroom/craft room. Although we did have one casualty - the wooden coffee table you see in the picture with the bed. Four of the beams from the bed were leaning against the wall
and fell over right onto the table, putting a huge crack down the middle of it and breaking off one side. Thanks to super-strong wood glue it's back to normal.
So, all in all a good trip. Oh, and I even got a cupboard for the entrance hall that has a spot for shoes. Very convenient. I don't know why more people in the States don't have these. I'm definitely a huge fan. It's such an easy way to hide shoes away and keep the front hallway looking uncluttered. I would imagine it'd be great for people with kids, that is if you can teach your kids to put their shoes in there when they take them off. I foresee trouble with my 30 year old husband on this issue, but right now it's new so he makes an effort to utilize it.
OK, well I need to go deal with my rising orange rolls. Hopefully, I'll post again later with all my holiday baked goods! Wish me luck.