Nearing the finish....

We have finally closed on our house. It has been a quasi-nightmare process. Our seller and her lovely agent have been just damned peachy (insert more than a hint of sarcasm). Due to not receving keys on time, we could not move this weekend. However, much time went into beautifying this place. It was in need of much love. We (meaning our whole damn troop: both sets of Chris' parents, my mom, and 2 of my sister, and Chris' cousin) painted our asses off! I have a purple accent wall in my living room. It is amazing. I will post pics when the room is not filled with an array of paint supplies. This place doesn't feel like home yet, I am hoping that is soon to come.

Yuck...

I'm sick and can't sleep. All I hear are two little girls hacking across the hall. Is winter over yet?

Hot.. No, Cold... Now Hot.. Or Cold...

I am 90% sure I have the flu. Hannah's nose is running like a leaky faucet. And JC got her first shiner. Its been a hell of a day. Luckily, Chris made it through in one piece and took fabulous care of all of us.

Here I am...

We did our presettlement walk through today. Unfortunately, the carpet is worse than I remember and whether we get the carpet allowance at closing or off the total price it has got to come up before we put any of our stuff in that house. Other than that today was busy, we cleaned and organized the toy room. That itself was a huge feat. Today was a good day. I even got a nap, albeit a small one. Anyday I get a nap is a good day. I'm still 2 years old in that respect.

I love her.

She is going to be 5 in 10 days. That makes my heart hurt and also make me realize my own mortality. If she gets older that means I get older, etc. I miss her today. After school I dropped her off to go sledding with my dad. She would rather do that than come home and help me with chores. Go figure.

Goals... And not meeting them...

So one of my new year's goals was to blog daily. Here it is the 8th of January and I have yet to blog or even put up Christmas pics. Not doing so hot at this one. I will do better, possibly.

I have been getting ready to move. We are going to do a major purge. I am excited about that. I am sick of holding on to crap we don't need and now there is really no reason since we are done adding to our family. Unless we get some middle aged bug up our asses and decide to adopt. But that would be so far down the road that everything we have would most likely be obsolute. I'm sure by 2024 there will be much cooler items than a Bumbo or Leap Frog Learning Table.

So back to my goals, I always get so off track which is why I am not on track to meet them. Our goals are to purge all the stuff we don't need, be more organized, be more green, and make more health concious choices. Sounds pretty generic, but I am so looking forward to moving and revamping our lifestyle. We have the walk through of our house scheduled for this Saturday and closing should go down on Thursday, January 15th. It could possibly be later than that but hopefully not much since we selected that day so we would have three weekends following closing left in January to do the things to both the old and the new house that need to get done. We were told we need to paint Hannah's room. Apparently my dad isn't hip on bright ass purple and bubble gum pink. We also have a red accent wall to paint. That shouldn't be too big of a deal. Hannah is going to be so heartbroken when we paint her room. She picked those colors herself on her 3rd birthday.

Speaking of Hannah, my girl is turning 5. I am in awe. I still vividly remember the night we brought her home from the hospital and I sent Chris out at 3 in the morning to Wal-Mart (GASP!) for a breastpump because she would not stop crying but wouldn't nurse and that was having some unforseen consequences for my pajamas. We were so clueless. Who would've though that if you are going to breastfeed you may need a pump? I love my girl with my whole heart she amazes me daily with her capacity for reasoning and understanding. Right now she is in Justyce's room trying to teach Justyce the ABC's. Justyce isn't having it and is banging something with a toy hammer.