MIA again…

Well, I’ve been gone again…sorry…it’s been one of those weeks.  Let’s see, where do I start? 

Our early “anniversary” trip that we were going to take over thanksgiving while KC’s mom kept the kids for us kinda got shrunk.  First we decided that instead of going out of the country, maybe this year we should stick to someplace within US borders.  Then it got downsized again when we were like, um…maybe we’ll just go to the city up the hill for a couple nights.  And…well, KC’s mom kept the kids for the three days and…um…we went out to dinner and came back home.  And spent the next two days busting our tails while the kids were gone.  Oh well.  Maybe next year.

So Thanksgiving was a workday here at the old house.  I painted the back of the house foundation, painted the back door on the garage (it was stained mud red from the middle on down and no amount of pressure washing would budge it), and took outdoor bleach and scrubbed the fire out of the siding on the back of the house (also mud red) and KC pressure washed it off (looks SO much better now).  And finally, we sanded, primed, and painted the sheet rock patch on the living room wall…that was a job.  But the wall looks GREAT now! 

KC’s mom invited us up to eat with them around 5, so we did that and came back home (leaving the kids there…that was a little unusual.  LOL!) and finished cleaning up the house from all the work we’d done during the day. 

Friday, we got up early (KC went black friday shopping at five and I slept til 7:30 when he got back) and hit the crawl space…got all the plastic back down and hauled off a bunch of trash to the dump.  How in the WORLD we collected that much TRUE junk is beyond me.  I mean, literally, it was a truck load of stuff that was unusable trash.  Not even stuff you could clean up and re-invent or ANYTHING.  Anyways, we took all that to the dump and then house inspection time…

Our old house passed, only a few minor things that the inspector suggested we change (like there isn’t any weather stripping under the back door because it came off…that sort of thing), so we were pretty satisfied with that. 

The new house (well, new OLD house) also passed…also a few fairly minor things.  However, the inspector told us, for a house as old as that one, he found SURPRISINGLY few things wrong with it.  He said it was a very quality built house and it’s held up very well.  He’s not licensed to inspect for termites, so he couldn’t tell us that he found what looks like the beginning of a termite problem.  WE saw them though, so we let the realtor know that it needs to be treated.  LOL.  And the inspector did say that he couldn’t find any structural damage because of anything that he wasn’t licensed to inspect.  Hah. 

And finally…are you dying of curiosity?  It killed the cat, you know!  LOL.  Okay, so enough already, right?  Yes, we have a contract on a new house, and from everything we have seen so far, it looks like we’re getting a STEAL.  We’re excited.  Supposed to close on it around Dec 31st, and the current owner asked for 2 weeks after closing to get all her stuff out.  Here’s the photographic tour of the inside of the new place.  And after you look at the pictures, you’ll understand why she asked for 2 weeks after…hahah!  I’ll post an outside photo and more pics when we move in and start doing updates and stuff. 

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Alright.  It’s library trip day, so I have got to get moving.  I have a little man beside me that is saying, “Please, momma, can I talk?  Can we go to the library now?  Pleasseee??”

Thanks for dropping by.  ;-)