So, I guess you've been wondering where I've been the last two weeks. Oh, I hope you've been wondering where I've been, because if not you probably aren't even reading. Well, there's big changes in our household. No, I'm not pregnant, we aren't planning on going down that road again. We're barely surviving the three we have. We're moving!
That's right, moving. It's not a little move either, we're leaving Texas and heading to the sunny state of Colorado. I know that's not usually how people describe Colorado, as the sunny state, but it is sunny something like 300 days a year. This has been in the works for awhile, but Charlie didn't want me to say anything until it was a sure thing. He resigned from the airline at the beginning of the month and starts at his new company in Denver at the beginning of May.
Needless to say the last two weeks have been kind of crazy. We've had a revolving door of home improvement people coming through replacing carpet, tiling bathrooms, prettying up the counters, planting grass, staining the fence, doing all the things we've wanted to do over the past few years but never had the time or money. Now we have no choice but to make our house beautiful for the next people that live in it. We've also been packing boxes and throwing lots of crap, yes crap, away. When the big day comes we'll still have packers and movers, but right now we're just packing up all the extra stuff to remove clutter and make the house look pristine.
So, every free minute I have is either doing something for the kids, or when they are asleep getting the house ready to put on the market. At first it was easy. As Charlie said it was taking care of all the low hanging fruit. However, all the low hanging fruit is now gone and we are having to think about what stays and goes. There are two schools of thought and depending on the hour and my brain switches back and forth between the two. First, carefully select what you want and don't want so as not to be throwing away enough to make your own landfill. Second, fill that baby up and toss everything. Yes, there are some things we can't make a decision on and are just going to move and deal with it later. There are also hidden baskets throughout the house that blend in nicely that are filled with things that we have to make a decision on whether we are keeping or not. But overall we have decreased the amount of junk in this house by quite a bit.
In the middle of all of this we had a wonderful visit from April from New Jersey and her darling son, Riza. Riza is two days shy of two months younger than Amanda and got along pretty well with the girls. We even got a day with Renee and her husband and kids in from Indianapolis to visit her family, so it was like old times with my crazy college roommates. We just talked about way different things than we did then. One evening we got to leave the kids and have an adult evening where we could focus on each other instead of the kids, amazing.
April and Riza came over Easter weekend so we got to do lots of fun stuff with them - Easter egg hunt, decorating eggs, big Easter brunch with another egg hunt and lots of toys in the kids' baskets. We even took them with us to take pictures in the bluebonnets. My one regret with the bluebonnets is that the kids are finally getting big enough to sit still and smile for me and this will be our last year to take pictures with them. Oh well, we'll have to find a new tradition in Denver.
Since April and Riza left it's been non-stop on the go, therefore no time to write and tell you all the crazy things the kids have been up to. Mostly, they've been trying, in their own mostly unhelpful way, to help us get ready for the move.
To answer your questions, because I know you have them, the house will most likely go up on the market next week. Houses have been selling pretty well here so we are hopeful that we will price it competitively and it will sell quickly. We haven't really started looking for houses in Denver yet. We did a little online, but they were selling so quickly we decided to wait until we actually have a chance to buy them. We need the money from our house to buy the new one, so Charlie will look a little bit before I get there but we probably won't buy anything until June of July. There is also the chance that we may rent, but nothing is set in stone yet. We don't know exactly where we want to live, but have targeted a few of the suburbs and are starting to look into the neighborhoods. Charlie is going to go early and work Monday through Thursday then come home and work from home on Fridays until school is out and the we will join him at some point after that. That's all I know.
I will try to write and update as the process goes along and I'm hoping that once the house is on the market the craziness will settle down, but only time will tell. The next few weeks are going to be quite an adventure!
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