And we are out...

We were in, and now we are back at Max's parents' house... because we are refinishing the hardwood floors! We must have broken some sort of record this weekend, because we started sanding at 7 pm on Saturday and were done by 10 pm on Sunday! And even though it's a small house, it has hardwoods throughout! Of course we can barely move, and every cell in our bodies is in pain, but hey, we saved a ton of money by just renting the equipment for one day!

The floors are looking super, and we are almost ready to put down the varnish, we just have to do the stairs by hand, cause the "little" machine was too heavy for me to handle down the stairs, and Max was doing the monster belt sander (I tried for a second, no way...) so I'll tackle them with a hand sander, then thoroughly clean the entire house, and the first coat of urethane goes down tonight! We should be back in our house sometime Thursday, after 3 coats of finish and enough time for it to cure, I hope... and ready to move in for real! All our furniture, all our stuff... oh boy!

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We are in!

We spent our first night in our new home on Sunday! On Easter Sunday, exactly 7 months after buying the house, we strapped the mattress and spring box to the roof of the Jeep and packed the car full of boxes with clothes, some kitchen stuff, a dresser and a lamp and took off! We had spent a lot of time earlier that day cleaning up the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen enough to move some stuff in and spend the night. So around 10 at night we unloaded the car, put the bed frame together, hung up the shower curtain and put a few things in the kitchen cabinets. It felt so great to be there finally! We were exhausted and ready to go to sleep by 12 but realized we had no blinds in the bedroom! We'd been warned by friends about precisely that, since they also forgot to buy blinds on their first night at their new home, and still we forgot! But we quickly covered the windows with kraft paper and went to sleep.

The past few days have been great! Lots of cleaning and stuffing things in the garage (mostly trash). Several carloads of boxes and bags, mostly with kitchen stuff, and 2 big trips to the grocery store later, our kitchen is almost there! It was so exciting to open a bunch of our wedding gifts again and pick a spot for each one, each decision so carefully considered. Even though we are really tired we are so happy to be in our own house!

There's still so much work to do, starting with hooking up the washer and dryer, building some storage in the basement, a bookshelf in the living room, putting up crown throughout the house, patching up walls painting them and refinishing the hardwood floors, which we plan to get to pretty soon, hence the reason we haven't moved all the furniture in. And then, when we are done with all that we'll take it outside! Paint, yard work, porch, deck, herb garden, new garden shed...maybe calling that Australian guy on HGTV to come make an "outdoor room" for us... And then the attic... which we'll get to next year maybe.

I'm predicting this blog is nowhere near its end.

Pictures will come... here they are