Moving Ahoy

First things first.. It was announced on the Rafflecopter but I wanted to say again Congrats to the Graco SnugRide Click Connect 40 winner : MtnHarmony.   I did contact them last week but haven't heard anything yet..  With not knowing where they live (affected by Hurricane Sandy?) I am giving the winner another week to get back with me before I choose a new winner.


Now.. Marthavmuffin so kindly asked about the house selling/buying and where we were at on it.  I'm so very glad you asked because I would like nothing better than to happily babble on and on about my dream house :)

We listed our current house for about a week and then one of my besties decided to buy it.. How convenient is that? I can still come visit my old house :) YAY!!   Plus the fact that the sellers would not accept a contingency that we sell our house anyway.. ugh.. So it worked out perfectly!

We actually went back and forth on the offer until we finally had an agreement (Counter Offer D was it!) which was almost amusing if it weren't so darn stressful! lol!

So now we are in the countdown- 2wks til closing..  I have been cleaning out the closets and trying to actually declutter and rid myself of stuff we don't really need.  This is BIG people.. I'm a huge packrat.. I hoard things that I might need sometime in the future..  Daddy Chaos is more of a "We haven't used it in 3 years, if we really need it in the future I'll buy it again" type so he is more than thrilled with my cleaning.    So far all the storage closets have been cleaned & packed.  The Big Kids have both packed up non-essentials in their own rooms.  I've went thru all the little kids' clothes and packed away summer stuff that will still fit next spring & donated everything else.  I've packed ALL their books -- bully mom! and am planning on packing all their toys today.  I already went thru toys and got rid of everything broken/missing pieces or that they haven't played with in the last 6 months.  We only have 2 wks til moving (possession at closing) so I have got to pack something.. I figure I'll be a bad parent and let them watch TV for 2wks.. lol. It won't kill them.

And yes, if anyone calculated it, we are moving over the Thanksgiving holiday.. Won't that just be buckets of fun? I'm really hoping Daddy Chaos actually gets the holiday off b/c there are rumors that they will have to work.. UGH.

I am so ready to be settled into the new house but I am sooo  not into the packing/unpacking. I want a moving fairy to come do it all while I'm sleeping.  That would be really nice..

I'll update as we go but just know that things are going to be crazy!!



xoxo,

Dreams...

Life is always full of twists and turns, isn't it?

If you've read here long, you know I've been "looking" for a new house for eons.  Nothing serious, just always browsing the ads and trying to find my *perfect* house.   For a while, I was sure we were meant to move to Florida..   Housing was cheap, they had jobs in Daddy Chaos' field  and best of all Mickey Mouse!   It didn't work out.. It was more of a pipe dream anyway.

Still I browse the ads and look at houses.  I love my house, don't get me wrong.. It is a great house.  We just need a bit more room.  When we moved here we had 3 kids and now that number has doubled. This house was over double our first house and I remember when we bought it 7years ago, we said "Oh my gosh, we will never been able to furnish that house!".   Sadly, 7years later we are bursting at the seams.

Daddy Chaos puts up with my house hunting.  We drive past houses and have even looked at a few over the past year but never fell in love with anything enough to say  Okay, let's move.

Until now.

My list of Dream Home Requirements :

1. Big Front porch

 - momma needs a a big ole porch with a porch swing :)

2.  Stairs with a landing

 -  I have always been obsessed with stairs that had the landing halfway down.  Yes they take up more room than traditional stairs but I just love them. I like that little resting place halfway up.  No one will fall more than halfway down.

3. A Master bathroom w/ big tub

- we have never had a master bath. A bathroom just for us grown ups..A place with a big tub that I can go soak/hide in when I need to get away.

The new house meets every single requirement and then some.  We went and looked at this one (super close to Daddy Chaos' work , another plus!) and the minute I walked in I told Daddy Chaos- "This is my house. I can feel it. "

With the pesky little things like selling our current house (ha, to my BFF Sasha aka Ms. Random - how convenient is that?) to getting an accepted offer on my dream house.. Little matters, this house was meant for me.  I felt it the minute we walked onto the porch.

Once we get thru all the lovely things like inspections and closing- the Kingdom of Chaos will be moving to our new bigger abode..  I'm so excited yet a bit sad as well..  Excited for the bigger space, more room for everyone to spread out.   Sad to be moving 30+mins away from my friends and community that I've come to love.  Sad to be leaving the house that three of my kids came home to me for the first time in.   It's bittersweet really.   But I'm ready for a change.

xoxo,

At last! Picture to amaze you :)

At last!!  Remember way back ohhh say LAST YEAR when Daddy Chaos began the great Light Improvement?  I'm pretty sure I mentioned it a time or two that one light went up , another went down & I was left with an empty spot & hanging wires for ohhh, I dunno, a year & 13days.

I would like to present you with this ::

Yes you have it! We have a light again! :) Yay Daddy Chaos* !   I wont even mention the other light that hasn't come down yet to be replaced because I am 100% happy to have this one :)

*Daddy Chaos would like me to remind everyone that Hello, he has a BACK issue and did have SURGERY which is why he did not get the light fixed. He did finally fix it despite the possibility of re-injuring himself so Momma would quit nagging & talking about it on her blog and making him sound like a lazy ass white trash husband.

** Lest you think I say this in all seriousness, please know that Daddy Chaos is absolutely 100% awesome. I just like to tease & give him a hard time.. most of the time :)