Speaking of coffee, we got ourselves a Keurig as a Mother's Day/Father's Day/Housewarming gift to ourselves. It's way easier to casually bury a Keurig machine in the piles of expenses when you spend your life keeping Home Depot in business. What's a little Keurig machine in the grand scheme of things? I look forward to stabilizing our credit card bill (starting NOW), and I will say that the reusable K-cup is a fabulous investment.
So we are here. Here is a brief photo tour of my favorite places in the house before I delve into the joys of buying a resale.
Here is the loft/play room. Actually, that is a misnomer. It is the room that is set up to look like a play room, but you are NOT ALLOWED TO PLAY IN IT because it is purely for show!!
The kids' rooms are works in progress. I still have stuff to put away and valances to hang and beds to make up, but it's the general gist of things.
Here is the sunroom, which I love. I think I posted it on Instagram but not on Facebook. Furnishing this room was low on the list of priorities, even though it needed to be done. I have had the chair on the right for quite some time, so I stuck it in that room so that there was at least SOMETHING. I went on a run the first morning we woke up here and spotted the chair on the left at a garage sale. I rushed over and bought it for $25. It was totally meant to be because otherwise, that room would be sitting there empty for years to come.
Our bedroom is on the main level, and there is a sliding glass door out onto the deck. Andy wanted to replace it with a window, and I was like, sure, whatever. Now I'm like, NO!! That's my zen - most nights I walk out, sit down, read, and listen to the creek before bed. It's my happy place.
Here's the master bathroom. Today I replaced the yellowish brown (formerly white, mind you) blinds with these sparkly new ones.
Here's the living room. We inherited the color, but it's amazing how nicely it matches our stuff. I would have never chosen this color (would have done a neutral color in the main areas and an accent in the dining room or something, like in the old house), but it's working out!
That's all I have for now. I definitely have moments when I get sad for the old house. I miss it. Largely because we were done spending money on it, and it was so low-maintenance. I had to go back there the other day to pick up some misdirected mail, and it was so weird and sad parking in my old driveway and knowing it's not ours anymore.
I miss the old, but I am definitely in love with the new. I am thankful that this is where we ended up because of all the little hidden treasures that I didn't expect to like so much, like sitting in the sunroom or listening to the creek, like I mentioned.
We've made friends. Our next-door neighbors had us over to cook out the first weekend we were here. They have a son one month younger than Liam, and the next house there's a girl one month younger than Macy. They play to the extent that I can get my socially-awkward kids to play, but we'll get there.
Of course, the move has not been without drama. First, the carpet. I am not even going to get into the carpet, otherwise no one would ever come to visit us. Suffice it to say that replacing it was non-negotiable. I lost about an entire night's sleep fretting that replacing it wasn't going to fix the problem, but all's been well. PSA: please house-train your animals, for the sake of I-don't-know-who, humanity, maybe? And definitely future owners of your home?
We got a super-good price on some frieze. I love it. It's super soft and forgiving, but vacuuming it is a tough job. I feel like I can cancel my gym membership because vacuuming frieze is plenty sufficient.
This past weekend, what we thought was a simple little clog under the sink turned out to be the culmination of 20 years of dumping grease down the kitchen drain. The plumber couldn't get to it with the rooter from either side, so he had to put a little access point in and get in through there to jackhammer through the cemented grease. In so doing, he ended up busting the main sewage line. Luckily we got a bunch of promotional chip clips from the restoration company to commemorate the experience.
How's THAT fair, though? You dump grease down the drain for 20 years and then it backs up on US after 2 1/2 weeks of owning the house? *Sigh*
We truly feel that God had this house ready and waiting for us. With the sequence of events and how everything worked out and how 4 months ago we had no intention of moving at all, it's just crazy to be sitting here looking around at our new surroundings. But God's all like, "what, you think I'm not going to make you work a little bit for it?" I guess we'll take a few hurdles if we must, but I am hoping were done paying our dues!
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