This is a quick update while I am home this morning, the first morning since last Thursday where I haven’t frantically been getting ready to head over to the new house to paint or clean or shop at the home improvement store or the like. So last Thursday we closed on both selling our old house, and buying or new house. It was as smooth as can be expected, it turned out we actually knew the buyers, and we were cordially polite with the sellers considering the hoops they’ve made us jump through in the process. We even headed out to the new house after the closings to start hitting some items on our LONG to-do-before-the-move list, but we were so mentally exhausted now that this big step was finally behind us that we cheered a pitiful ‘hurray’ and soon left again to eat a good burger in our favorite downtown burger joint.

Since then we’ve been working at full speed to head over there every day to paint, pull up carpet, change locks, clean, paint some more, and sweat a whole lot. Initially we had planned to make the big move on Saturday the 26th, but that gave us very little time to get the things we wanted to get finished before the move done in time, especially when poor Greg got a serious case of the cold early on. Since we already are renting our old house back for two weeks after the closing, we asked the buyers if we could rent it back one additional week more, which was fine, so now we are moving June 2nd instead, and so I am taking it a bit slower this morning while I am doing all the laundry we had piled up over the weeks, and shipping some jewelry orders that were placed in the mean time. We are crazy exhausted and sore right now and really look forward to next month when we are moved in and done with that part. Despite that the hard work has been incredibly rewarding as the changes what we are making are making us happier and happier and make the place feel more like ours every day. I will take some time to post pictures here later, in the mean time I will be uploading them to flickr to this set so you can see the progress as I capture it. At this time we only have the 2 bathrooms and the master bedroom and the kitchen left to paint but only have pictures of Greg’s office and the living room.

More later!