Adventures in Moving, Part I

Paul moved to Denver on Sunday and won't be back for 11 loooooooong days. He left at 11 Sunday morning and is planning on getting back early two Thursdays from now. I was really upset at first because it's so hard to handle a new baby and a rambunctious toddler all day, every day, with no help and no breaks. But I'm trying to have a good attitude about this because military moms and single moms do this every day, and if they can do it, so can I. The next time he comes back, we are packing half of our stuff up and moving it to Denver. The other half is stuff we're keeping in the house. We are cramming the stuff we're not taking into a few rooms and the basement so our house sitter can have most of the rooms. Paul just took his office stuff, clothes, and an air mattress to get by until we move. He crammed everything in the Corolla and is flying back, then we are all driving together in the Sequoia hauling the U-haul trailer.

I'm staying busy because between dealing with double diaper changes and such, we have a lot of house repairs that we have recently completely and others that will start soon:
-fixing our front steps
-staining the deck
-repairing the rotten siding and painting the house
-new garage doors
-new inside door that leads into the garage
-having the shower in the master bathroom cleaned
-fixing the gutter
-fixing a shelf in the laundry room
And then after we pay off all the above, we need to replace our water heater. We have been trying so hard to do the whole Dave Ramsey envelope system and stay out of debt, but when we found out we were moving, we HAD to get this stuff done and just deal with the credit card debt later. We have no idea when we'll be back and everything except the shower and laundry room desperately needs to be done. We have the cash for the house painting, everything else is just "magic money" (credit card).

At first I wanted to paint the house tan with white trim. Then I changed my mind to a light/medium green. Then I changed my mind back to tan because our house sits on a hill and it would be green overload to see a green grassy hill with a green house on top flanked by green trees and bushes. It would've been nice if I had realized this before I bought 9 sample cans of green, but I guess that was money well spent.

Imagine the house green too. Blech. You can see where I painted green on the bay window and the porch.

This is the tan I chose- "tatami tan"

it dries a little darker than that

the darker spots are the dry parts

So my house is now 10 different colors until the painting people get here. Don't hate on my painting skills, I was frantically tearing through the samples while Mika slept in the car and Jackson was trying to touch all the paint (he got some on our new, white garage doors). I literally painted until my hand went numb.