Just like that

And just like that, we are homeowners! Holy Moly!!!! Here are a few pictures from the rest of the house. I will be doing quite a bit of changing, especially when it comes to paint color. I think that painting it is what is going to make it feel like it's actually mine for real, and not just for now. Here is the back. The back yard is fenced in.

Here is the cat door. It'll make it so that the cats can get to their litter boxes in the basement without me having the basement door open.

Dining room. I'm already taking the wall paper down that is under the chair rail.

Large mirror in the living room. That is already down too. Nate cried a lot because we weren't keeping it. It was too big to get out of the room in one piece, so we had to break it. Now we have to work on the wall behind it before we can paint. SO MUCH WORK to do before painting!!! ugh!

One of the bedrooms. This is all going too. Ugly wall paper up there too. Not a high priority though since we don't need all 3 bedrooms right away. This will eventually be Olivia's room.

Master bedroom. Through those doors is the bathroom.

Kitchen. I may leave this for a while since there's not much I can do with it on a budget.

Family room. This only needs to be painted.

So there is our new house! We're very excited to get to work on it, and in the next few weeks I can imagine my mornings being spent at the new house working on painting, etc, and afternoons at the old house packing. It's all real now, and I probably ought to stop living in denial.

One year later

OK, so it's only really 11 months, but here she is, wearing the same dress. This was her Easter dress last year, a size 6-12 month. It finally fits her this year. (In case anyone is counting, she's 21 months.

A missing tooth

Nate lost his third tooth today. It was a bit of an experience. He was drinking, and he swallowed it. It took us a little while to calm him down and explain that nothing bad was going to happen, and that it was very likely that the tooth fairy would come anyway. The only problem now is that his crooked bite, combined with his other loose tooth migrating he looks like a little hill person, with one tooth in the middle of his mouth. Hopefully he'll lose the other tooth sooner rather than later!

3 weeks

Do you remember back in October when I said that we had put an offer in on a house and the owners accepted it? Well, we close in 3 weeks. I know, it's been forever. I was so worried that we had found this house before our 6 month lease had even begun. I was worried that we'd end up with a few months of double housing payments. As it turned out, with several major holidays in the middle there, I had no need to worry. And now all of the sudden it's March. When did that happen? And we close in 3 weeks. Holy moly! I am very much not ready to move. I'm the kind of person who likes to pack like a whole month before I move so that it's not all done at the last minute. The problem is that I don't have a space to put any boxes right now. However, we have over a month after we close before we have to be out of this place, so that will be nice. We still don't know when we are going to start living at the new place, but it will probably be early April. So there you have it. 3 weeks from today, and it all seems so weird.