Life is not dull these days.
Is it super crazy, chaotic and stupidly busy? Maybe not, but let's just say, some days I can't remember why I am in a room more often than not. I forgot my wallet at work yesterday. It was long after I got home from work that I even realized that I didn't have my wallet, so you know how things are going.
We're as settled as we can be in our in between house. It's good for us, we're all together and we're leading as normal a life as possible.
But it's still nuts. The owners are trying to sell the property and we agreed to help do some clean up/touch up in the process of living there.
Let me be clear, we do not have the time and money that is necessary for a good clean up of this place. It isn't an awful, smelly rat hole by any means, it was relatively clean, dry and for the most part well kept.
However, the house was built in the 1960's and no major renovations other than the kitchen have taken place since then. There's a multitude of things that need to be done to make the house worth the asking price.
But we're doing our utmost to take care of some of the small cosmetic stuff. Filling holes, cleaning, painting trim, and other such appearance type items.
Luckily the realtor we used is the same one that has listed this house and she's all for our efforts to tidy things up. It would have been a pretty tough sell with how the last tenants left it.
We were up late last night doing more painting, cleaning etc…ahead of a planned open house this weekend. There's countless things to do and we can only do a portion of them. You want to help someone out, but in the same breath, it's not your place and there are so many other things that they could have done already.
We will do what we can, but our efforts will only carry things so far, the owners are going to have to make an effort too and fix some of the more major issues.
So we're working full days, trying to spend time with the kid and the fur kid, fixing up this house a bit, trying to organize stuff for the new house as well.
We had baby bunnies in the back yard of the in between house which was very cool, but a pain to keep the puppy dog out of them.
Big C travelling a ton over the next week, we'll see him Friday night Saturday and Sunday and then pretty much not again until next Friday night.
We're off to see friends on Saturday and Sunday I'm doing somewhat of a mother's day do-over with my mom and going shopping and out for lunch. That might help restore some of my sanity???
It's keeping things interesting to say the least. We're coping with the year anniversary of the loss of our Mudpuppy and a close friend has a mother who is terminally ill with cancer and nearing her last days we fear.
Its chaos in the friendliest form. It will all result in good things in the end, but grinding through the every day is not to be desired from time to time.
We did have fun taking our pup out to a pond for the first time. Wish I had a video of him getting spooked by his tail swishing under the water. Miss K attended her first school BBQ and already has her first t-shirt from the school.
There's silver linings to all the crap you go through, but it says something when you look forward to your day job as a rest from the outside of work job…
It is just 3 weeks plus a day until we take possession of the new place, hoping they fly by. I'm guessing if things keep up at the pace they are right now, we'll be packing all our crap back in boxes before we know it
Til next time…take some time to breathe and enjoy the small things...
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