Time to update the ol' blog since my last post was in July. Way too much has been going on so I'll give the shortened version on it. Basically, I've been crazy busy. Thought I was busy before....this is a new kind of busy. Where your feet hit the ground running and don't stop all day until you fall back into bed way past your bedtime. Every day.
We found out at the very end of June that the house we were renting had sold and we needed to be out by the end of July. Jason (kinda) bullied them and said, "No way...can't be out until the end of September." When all was compromised, we were out by the end of August. In the meantime, we had found our house to buy on Blueberry Lane. So for the rest of July and the 1st 1/2 of August, I spent lots of time packing, organizing, throwing away, etc. Then we closed on our Blueberry Lane house in mid-August and got even busier than before.
The house was built in 1965. And the inside looked like....1965. The original red shag carpet, brown plaid wallpaper in the kitchen (on the walls & ceiling). Paneling. Pink bathroom (tub, toilet, sink, tile, wallpaper). And my favorite, a built-in bar in the lower level that was decorated with Viking memorabilia. So when we closed on the house, we immediately went to work on rehabbing the kitchen. We literally had some blood, sweat, and tears going on.
So from mid-August until August 31st, we spent every free moment working on the house to get it ready. And then August 31st, we officially moved in. I have to say...I'm pretty good at not sweating the small stuff. I'm organized; I use my critical thinking skills; I have good time management. But moving with a 4 year old and a 1 year old while working part-time...it kicked my butt from one end to the other. I had my moments of being so overwhelmed and short on time...I really thought we weren't going to pull it off. But we did, and life is getting back to normal. Well, the Chiodo normal that is.
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