The Big Move

WE DID IT! The condo finally sold and we really, truly bought our dream house! It was amazing really how it all turned out. After 10 months on the market, our only offer fell through truly as we were walking through "the house". Six weeks later, the same woman made a second offer claiming she had a more stable offer on her end. This house had just come up on the market and I went through it without Steve. It had become too hard to get sitters and arrange everyone's schedule to get three of us together to find a house, so it was easier to separate and narrow down our options. I called Steve from the car and told him this was the one. It is everything we both wanted. An RV pad for Steve, a big kitchen and a craft room for me, a huge backyard and a playroom for the girls and best of all it is completely finished! We will never go through the headache of finishing a basement!
We were able to move in the first week of June. Everything went smoothly except for the new owner of our condo walked in with her boxes, ready to move in 14 hours early. We were still cleaning. So, she was left with crumbs in the cupboards and dusty baseboards but she wanted us out so she could come in! The girls really were helpful in letting me pack. As you can see, we rarely left our pj's the last few weeks, but they were thrilled to make tents and tunnels out of empty boxes.

I also found it was easy to move on to another box to let them decorate our moving boxes. Neither one noticed what I was putting in the next box because they were so busy. Paige used her best penmanship to label the boxes and draw somewhat collaborating pictures (who doesn't think of reindeer and eight-foot flowers when packing their shoes?) while Claire did some of her very best stickering.

We couldn't ask for a better neighborhood. We met more neighbors the night we moved in than we did in a year in our old one. There are little girls everywhere to play with, and I haven't seen the girls in days they are so thrilled with the backyard. However, they are turning into little indian babies with their tanlines! We are sad to leave our friends behind, but we are less than 2 miles away and now we have some room to return all the favors of entertaining guests!