Marty's house

Since August 26th we have been living with my brother, Marty. 

He recently got divorced but felt strongly for some reason that in the division of things he needed to keep his house...

He didn't know then, but maybe we were the reason he needed to keep his house.

The house that he designed and had built less than 3 years ago.

It's a house that has been given lots of TLC for that time.

It is  beautifully designed and immaculately decorated with all the top-of-the-line doo-dads and nick-nack-patty-wacks.

The basement, however is unfinished and that is where the children have been banished,

not before
Danielle and Marianne came to decorate cute little rooms for the kids.

Rooms, that would make it fun to live in a basement.

They decorated with fabric acting as wall-paper or doorway swags, with huge tissue flowers, pink polka dotted paper plates or cut out stars hanging from the ceiling.

It's a tad chilly sleeping down there now being Winter and all, but we just pile on the blankets and cover them in flannel jammies. 

They are just dandy.

We have only ruined a few things in Marty's house so far

But we are trying

and the kids do their jobs good.

Marty is patient with us as we have taken over his whole, entire house but we are ever so grateful for his generosity.