Moving Step by Step

The progression of the changes in our life.

We told the kids we would work on our house for a year and then be ready in spring of 2009 to sell our house and by an acreage or "farm" as we have started to call it.

The kids don't understand a timeline, work list or selling a house and hardly conceptualize what a year is....

So they told Grammy that we are moving to a farm next year.

Grammy loves farms and misses the open space that she left at her farm in 2005.

So Grammy surfs the web and finds a great place that we all went to look at and loved.

That began this feverish, marathon to prepare our house to list it ASAP!

However that sweet little house sold within 3 days and so have a few other properties that caught our eye. Nevertheless we have persevered and this is how our summer of 2008 has been spent:







We painted the ivory kitchen to be white. Which included removing all of the cabinet doors.



Which waited in the garage for their new color!






The mailbox got a face lift and went from rusty black to glossy green.



The front yard was manicured and spruced up with much bark, petunias and many hours of labor.



Looking much nicer!





We ordered a storage container to be delivered so that we could load as we packed. Oh we decided to pack our house as if we would have to live in an apartment while we select our next property - we don't want to rush into any decisions!





Everything is looking quite attractive at this point. Our front yard is staged, check that off of the list!



We just sent the container, entirely filled, back to the storage yard. We spent over a month filling it up.