Moving and Remodel Update

Moving Day came and went. It was a little harder than I expected, to leave our house after 7 1/2 years. I loved living there!

The remodel turned out to be amazing. I hope the new family loves it as much as we did.

We did a little painting at the rental too.

After the wallpaper is gone...

The house we are renting has a great backyard. It has a huge tree that will be great for a couple of swings and a few apricot, peach and apple trees. Also there are two current bushes that are almost 100 years old (no pressure trying to keep those alive!) And I am pretty excited about the pomegranates too!

We where up till midnight making huge batches of apricot jam. We made cooked jam for Chris and freezer jam for me.

This house also has more storage than I could possible imagine!

Ryan loves it, he calls it the vacation house. Hopefully he will feel the same way about it after school starts!

Remodel

No air-conditioning for two and a half weeks (except in our bedroom), giant holes in our roof, insulation gently falling like snow- everywhere.  And the dust: in. on and under everything!  Oh, and I fell through the ceiling- in front of an old high school friend.  He and I where talking and then I disappeared from sight!  Actually it was just one leg that went through, but it is black and purple!  ( I would show you a picture, but some things are left better to the imagination!)

Other than that everything else is going really well!  

We are packing up boxes and going to all of the end-of-school events.  Life is busy, but good!

Tree, from point A to B.

The day we had a big pine tree transplanted was exciting.  Now if we can keep it alive.  We are adding it to out our collection.  Seven trees have been moved to the lot.  

It had to be moved because of our impending remodel.  

We can grow things!

So far so good.  The garden is actually a success- so far.  

We did find a little visitor.  We had "Bungy" stay a couple days with us before we let him go.  He was really cute!

Sold!

Papers are signed and it is official.... we have sold our house!
The best part is - we love the family we sold it to. And since we are staying in the neighborhood- that's big!

We have even found a great rental just a block away. Everything is falling into place.

House for Sale and My "Super Mom"

It's official, our house is for sale.

It was cruel trick to list the house while my Mom was tending for the 10 days that we were gone, but the reality is; if anyone could keep a house clean and presentable - it's her!  

I think that I am going to have a cape made for her because she really is "Super Mom"  She had 14 people show up to see the house with just a moments notice.  Also she managed to throw a little birthday party for Claire, get kids to school, run errands, swim practice for Haley, Montessori for Ryan, and swimming lessons for Claire.  That was just her first day tending!