Before and After

Here is the first in what I hope is a long series of "Before and Afters"

This is our "red room" it is separated from the living room by french doors and is in the front of the house. We are using it as a piano/reading room for now. I personal love it - my own little retreat away from everything!

Easter

We hosting our first big family dinner at the new house over Easter. All went well even though we are still without dining room chairs. Do you know how hard it is to match (or blend) chairs to an existing table? Not to mention even finding some that don't already come in a set??? GRRRRRR - That is a vent for another day.

Miri had loads of fun hunting for eggs before we went to church. I was hoping for an outdoor egg hunt but of course the weather did not cooporate. But the important part is she had fun and is really good at egg hunting. The kids hunted eggs after breakfast at church and she tied for first place in the "under 6" age group! She is highly motivated by the fact most eggs come with candy.

Despite not having any kind of nap all weekend M held up pretty good over the day - I am sure the constant sugar high might have had something to do with it. At one point I walked into the room and she was just spinning in circles over and over and over again. It was at that point when I did a sweep through the house and relocated the candy into non reachable territory. Next year I am instituting a no candy rule!!

A Bittersweet Good Bye.........

On March 31 we officially signed papers ending our ownership of the house on 27th Place. While we were very happy not to have to deal with the problems we discovered since moving out of the house we were a little sad to say good bye. We bought the 27th Place house about 6 weeks after we got married and lived there for 9 years. That house holds lots of memories for us, we introduced three of our kitties into our family at that house, our niece Cat lived with us some of the time there, we hosted numerous family dinners and parties and most importantly it is where we brought Miri home from the hospital. We LIVED there, we laughed, we cried, we loved and fought. And while we are looking forward to making many special memories in our new house, there is a need to at least mark such a monumental occasion.