MOVING IN!

After a day of detail work Saturday, we started taking stuff over to the new house today! We are pretty excited ... though I have to say we'd be more excited if we were all healthy. Erik has been sick, and I'm fighting the same bug ... could well be H1N1. Erik has been rather miserable, which not only is no fun for him, but it puts a damper on how much we can accomplish ... but little by little we're making a home over there!

Here's the new fridge that we got for such a deal! It's a little short, now that we have it in the space -- we could have gotten a taller one. But the space is adequate. We flipped the handles over to the other side this evening.

After we got it into place, we noticed that the doorway to the addition (which is remaining a workspace for some months yet -- we've got a gate to go there so Erik doesn't get into Dave's tools) is more like a hallway. Dave pointed out that as we start to bring stuff into the house we'll realize just how small it really is.

I cleaned the big windows the other day ... it's nicer to admire the view from them now. Though it does remind me that we'll need to figure out window dressing at some point.

We put up the IKEA shelf in the kids room today! A place to store toys and more. I like that the desk part can grow with the kids, since all the shelves are adjustable.


We're using the futon as a couch for the near future. Dave stopped for a little while this evening to admire all the results of all his hard work!

Oh, there's still lots to do. More trimwork, doors, closet organizers, and a whole lot of general organizing ... I'm not sure exactly when we'll start sleeping over there -- probably not till after our trip to Iowa and the Cities this coming weekend. It's nice to be able to work after the kids go to bed, and I'm not sure how we'd do that when the kids are sleeping over there, especially considering there is no door on their room (that's also on the to-do list).

It's just awfully nice to have a LIVING space over there! The kids had a good time for a few hours this afternoon playing with the few toys we've now moved across the yard. (Moving the little chairs around the floor was the most popular -- makes us realize how foolish we were to be proud of protecting the floors so well while we were working in there.) I'm looking forward to having our stove and dishwasher, both of which we pick up this week.

... I heard the geese honking for the first time this fall as I was walking between the old house and the new one. We're not the only ones on the move!