We moved into our new house on July 9th and it has been awesome! We have about the same amount of space on our main level as we did in our whole house before, plus a finished basement! It feel so nice. The highlights for me: DECK (I'm sitting here typing from it now!), GARAGE (I've never had a garage to pull a car in in my life and neither has Dan!), and the MAIN FLOOR LAUNDRY. A.maz.ing. It feels so good! Really, we were so blessed and shocked by this process. The house was built in 7 weeks, from digging to close. Crazy.
I really love the neighborhood. Almost everyone is a family in a similar age range (elementary aged kids) though our across-the-street neighbors are lovely mid-to-late 40s with no children. They have been very kind and seem to enjoy our kids. Their dog found its way into our house the other night through an open screen door and then chased our cat all around the yard for a few minutes, it was a little excitement for the street!
The kids are adjusting well. Eden, of course, flawless transition. Elly, a few tears. Esias did not like his bed AT ALL for the first three or four nights but now sleep just as well as he did in the old house (i.e. we lay with him in his bed til he's out, then he comes in around 4am and sleeps with us!) so we are thankful.
Dan is a busy, busy man trying to keep sod alive. The city code makes the builder lay sod on new construction so even though the weather is wicked hot and not conducive to growing anything, we had to do it and so far, so good. Our water bill is going to be insane, but we gotta do what we gotta do. We water a lot! And our yard is not small, so we're using some water! We're bracing ourselves for when that bill shows up.
The other excitement around her is that my sister and her family are moving in in a week! They will be living in our basement, there are two bedrooms down there and a bathroom, as well as a living area, so they will have their own space. We are taking them in while their house gets built, which hopefully will be done in October. I am so glad we can use our blessing of a house to be able to help others out because we were helped by so many during this building process.
Sorry no pictures so far, they are all on my phone. The house is still full of clutter and boxes as I figure out where to put everything, anyway!
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