Rounding the Corner

"Rounding the corner" is a popular phrase in the Labor and Delivery world. It simply means the baby has been pushed under the pubic bone and delivery will be soon. In a multiparous woman the doctor better have his/her gloves on. I can't believe I've been in Moscow for almost 2 months now. What have I done since I've been here? To tell you the ugly honest truth it hasn't been pretty. I've been living with the very secretive and never talked about D word. depression... But all is well! I feel like I'm "rounding the corner". I'm almost there, to a life I used to know without numbness, dread, fatigue and insomnia. Today I actually cleaned my house and I decided to show what my little house and life is like here in the claustrophobic town in the Palouse Valley.

Our cute little rental with included blue picket fence. A color I would never have chosen, but hey! We have a fence. Plus, look at our lack of snow. Yup it's February and the weather here is great!!


Cute little nine-nineteen


Walking through our front door you are welcomed by beautiful hard wood floors (which my boys slip on every day) and our living room


I had to show off my plant. I had to leave it behind the first move, but the second and final move it survived the front seat of my car. Slowly I've been nourishing it back to health. I can't believe what a difference some humidity makes in the life of plants.


I even felt motivated by Valentine's Day to put up my LOVE letters. Not much, but oh it put some sunshine in my soul today.


Dining room. I don't like how my living room and dining room are one big room, but compared to what we saw while hunting for a place to stay I'll take it. Paycen sits on the furthest chair to the left and he constantly touches my chair. I not only have to wash his face and hands but I have to clean off my leather chair after meals as well.


Small view of our kitchen. I just wanted to show off my very favorite appliance. The Dishwasher!! After 6 1/2 years of marriage, 2 kids and many moves we have our first dishwasher!! I will never go back (hopefully) to washing dishes by hand. What a heaven sent blessing!!

Another view of our kitchen.

I had to show off the retro carpet in our bedroom. The only room in the whole house that is carpeted. The owners of the house decided to put new hardwood floors through out the whole upstairs except the bedroom. Why? It's retched... and on my bookshelf you can barely see my beloved Edward on the top shelf. Thank you for understanding.

Here is probably my favorite room in the house. We have a magnificent basement with included toy room!! What? you can't see any toys? That's because this included toy room came with a gigantic closet. All the toys are in there!! hurray!! We had to buy 3 different carpet pieces from a carpet store so that's why the carpet doesn't really match, but it's way better than a cement floor. The boys spend almost every breathing moment in here playing. Like I said Best Room Ever!

Awful looking room, but a great assest. A cellar. We mostly store our boxes in here, but we have all our food storage in here to. It's not all unpacked but I love the space. No more storing food under our bed, and besides the washer and dryer.



Laundry Room is a little scary, but Ty has made himself a little work space. Here on his desk is a design he has created for his landscape architecture class. Going back to school has been quite the adjustment for both of us, but like I said we have finally started rounding the corner.

I am working as a LD nurse at the local hospital prn, but thankfully I have had plenty of shifts to pick up with a high prospect of becoming a scheduled employee. My schedule is crazy busy but I love it. Work is actually going pretty good. I love everyone I work with. Even the girl I talked about earlier that wronched me out for the pt that was going to "choke on her tongue". It's mostly because I've been working with my friend Monica more lately. Along with my dishwasher, she is heaven sent. Work is so close I get to walk every day. Walking sounds ominous but really it takes me 3-4 min to walk. Soooo nice.

School is really close for Ty as well and he walks or rides his bike. Our poor cars are being neglected, but we have saved so much money on gas. If you remember, Ty used to travel to Jackson WY to work everyday from Rexburg. He was the gas guzzler.

We have been ward hopping a lot and finally found one we liked. The first family ward we went to ended up being the wrong ward. Our house is right on the boundary. So then we start going to our real family ward. They seemed nice of course but we just got lost in the busyness of it all. The nursery had 30 kids (and it's only Feb) and the sunbeam class had 24 kids, and the CTR 5 (Kaden's class) has 20 kids. Let's just say the Primary was chaos. And after sitting by myself in Relief Society and girls who wouldn't give me the time of day for 3 weeks, we decided to go to the married student ward. What a breath of fresh air I tell you. Besides the girls who say like every other word, it's been a really good decision. The Primary has 10-12 kids and Kaden comes home singing the new songs he has learned and tells me about what he learned in class. Much better!!

So we are surviving and doing much better. We miss our home tremendously in Rexburg, but don't miss the -20 degree weather plus wind we have heard about. Much love and well wishes to those who read this whole post!!

Steph