That's great news. I am happy for you especially since your son is military. No matter how any of us feel about the war, we appreciate our military people. We spent many holidays alone. Because of the parents and step parents issue, I decided what ever day my children could be with us was "the" holiday. The Christmas my oldest granddaughter was four, they were stationed in Abeline. We lived in San Antonio and my son's father lived in Kingsvile and my DIL's mother lived in Robstown. The kids had their Christmas at home and then drove to SA. The next day we had our Christmas. The day after they drove to Robstown and had Christmans at my DIL's mother's house. They went to my ex's on Christmas morning and had Christmas. Soooooo,my granddaughter got up the day after Christmas expecting it all to happen again. She was a tad disappointed.

I did stop by yest. & boy is it moving right along! Glad I stopped & I've assurred myself that I will indeed go by every day. Especially after what you said about your sunroom, Mollymcb. Sorry to hear about that & I hope that will turn-out to your satisfaction after all. We will have a sunroom of sorts - we have a Keeping Room that's right off the kitchen & B. Nook. The plan only had 2 windows in there, but we changed it to have a whole wall of windows. It has a fireplace & we'll also have a screened porch added right off of it. Our footers seem to be set & ready to build upon - hopefully today. It's been raining a little, but the yard is damp & not soaked or muddy. They've delivered brick for the foundation & it APPEARS to be the brick that we liked. (Our home will have a partial brick front & the rest hardie plank). They've also delivered lots of concrete blocks. The only thing that they've kinda messed-up is w/ the clearing of the backyard (that was all wooded)- we didn't want them to clear-out as much as they did, but DH says he likes the way they've done it, even tho' our backyard is way bigger than what we anticipated & we'll indeed need a riding mower after all! We were kinda looking forward to having a rather compact yard w/o too much maintenance..... but we figured that we paid for the lot so we might as well use it. We also have the biggest backyard in the neighborhood now. I guess it's just different now that nearly all of the trees that were there are gone. It certainly seems like we'll be to the framing stage within the nxt. 2 weeks! Yay!

The chairs are entirely different story. I bought them off some antique dealers site on ebay from New York. Got all them for like $125 but it cost me a total of almost $600 by the time shipping factored in. Still a deal in "chair world". They had some hideous old gold brocade fabric on them. I refinished and recoverd them myself. They are two arm chairs too. DH was so worried that they wouldn't go with the table. "How can you know" he asked? And I told him... " I just know they'll be perfect... trust me". When they delivered them it was funny. they came at night when my husband 60's style band was practicing at night at my home. These boys have been together for over 40 years... since they were kids. Anyways, the delivery man was a Jamaican man who was not familiar with the music. So I told him to stay and have some dinner. (Had made baked ziti for the boys). "what's baked ziti" he asked. Well I sat that young man down to a big plate with home made bread.He devoured it and kept asking... "this is called baked ziti"... "seconds please"... He got up and sang some wiht the guys and was dancing. I gave a big fat tip and he left a happy kid. DH will no longer question me on my choices at all. He'll say, I never would have picked those colors/whatever... but it looks tremendous.

Fabulous color. I have two that are similar in my house -- EK Mustard Seed and C2 Radiate. They are happy, happy colors. Just right for that happy, happy baby! And good for you for figuring out that you can't necessarily pick colors by looking at other people's photos. It's a great place to start....but it just isn't that simple, as you well know.