Temporary home

I finally took pictures of my new home for everyone. Its done for the most part, only a few little things need to be finished. :)

lets start with the front of the house and work our way to the back.

Entering through the front door to the living room!

to the left is the dining room.

another left to the kitchen, nook, and school room

Nook

kitchen

School room

to the left is the office, laundry room (garage) and downstairs bathroom

now lets go upstairs! Bye bye downstairs!

to the left at the top of the stairs is the master bedroom

bathroom and the big ole closet with no clothes:(

exiting the master bedroom and into the hall. on the left we have the guest bathroom

and next to the guest bathroom is Justine's room...aka guest room

next to this room is Jake's room (which still needs a lot of work)

and the backyard...which would have been with the school room pictures...but...i said i would end in the backyard..sooooo here it is.

TADA! thats the house.

What to do now?

Now that i am completely moved in to my fabulously staged temporary home, what do i do? This morning i woke up to yet another day of tripping over boxes and clothes, trying to find some counter space to cut a bagel on. Now everything is spotless. not a dog hair in site. It only took a week but moving into this house was exhausting! I think everyone could agree. My own parents cut their vacation short due to all the hard work that had to be done. Let me paint a picture of my morning for you. My sister comes running in the door saying," SARA! someone is coming to look at the house!!!" (for those of you who don't know, we are living in a house that is up for sale. This requires quite a bit of work. Everything spotless, things being placed so so, strategically turning on certain lights to distract the eye from the not so lovable aspects of the house, and so on.) So i jump out of bed and ran down stairs in a panic, only to find out they wouldn't be arriving until 3. which is still a big deal considering we needed about 3 whole days to take care of the gigantic mess that was left. But between 4 of us cleaning at full speed we managed to get it done. Done enough to let people see at least. We ran off to church ( an all around awkward day at church.) and when we came home we had some dinner in my nice clean house. After cleaning up dinner I find myself twiddling my thumbs surfing the net, having nothing better to do than actually blog for once! Although there are things hidden in the closets, food stashed in the dresser drawers, and dog poop hidden behind the rose bushes...i find myself laying in bed relaxing for the first time in a month. Poop scoopin can wait until another day. I am finishing my day as the lord intended it. As a day of rest.