Home Depot and Lowes is my BFF!

To preface this post, Matt and I have made approximately 6-8 trips to Home Depot and Lowes between Friday and Monday!

Walking through the house, Matt and I didn't expect to be doing many projects...yeah right! So last night, I decided I wanted to do my first project by myself, which was replacing the tub stopper on our bath tub since it was literally falling off and Matt was creating a box of insulation to cover the stairs to the third floor. First of all, I couldn't get the link to come out far enough; then went through multiple pliers to get in the small hole while trying to hold a flashlight in my mouth ( you need mental images for this) as i'm sitting indian style in the tub. Finally I got the old piece off, but needless to say, the new piece didn't work because the backing to the tub isn't completely round, nor could we get the link to fit in....Matt had to actually stop his project to help me out, so it went from Colleen's project to Matt's project...so back to Home Depot we go to return and find a new one....well they didn't have what we needs...so down I-95 to Lowe's; Matt finds a piece that might work; I am walking up and down the plumbing isle just trying to find something to seal up the area, like a plug with some plumber's putty...Matt find this quite amuzing. So we get home...Matt takes over the project and within minutes, the hole in the tub is covered! He was also able to close off the third floor; it is just a finished attic space with a spiral staircase up from the 2nd bedroom up. Since heat raises, we closed it off to save on heating bills for the winter time...yippee!