Our new house is all done and signed for and now contains all our long forgotten furniture!! It's wonderful! And it is starting to feel like our home too! One thing I love about it, besides the "new" smell, is that I have 2 children's rooms now! I LOVE that. I look at Little China's room (oops, I mean Chelsee) and I just get a wonderful feeling inside. Not that I think she will stay in there very much in the beginning but it is her room to do with what she pleases. That is, if I can find another place for my winter clothes!!!
I met my long ago goal of serving Easter dinner in our new home! We had 15 family members on our new and old dining tables. I was in heaven. Al and I couldn't find anything in the kitchen that we had just unpacked but we had a blast. And even though we weren't ready to actually sleep over yet, we definitely felt like we celebrated a new beginning.
We'd like to thank so many people for helping us get to this place that seemed as about out reach as Chelsee is. My parents never stopped encouraging us as we struggled through the sale of the MN home, that awful moving/closing day in MN, and the never ending details of building the new home. Their hugs and strong shoulders got us through. They always said yes to whatever I asked of them. Dina helped me sort out all the endless money worries, the relentless ups and downs of this 9 month "adventure" and even though she has had a rough year herself, she was my soft and kind therapist with only my heart in mind. She helped me beyond words. Thanks Jim and Steve and Ken, my cabana boys!
And last but not least, my precious sister and her family...where would we be without them to carry us through? I don't even want to think about that. Not only would they not take any rent money while we took over half their new house, they fed us, made us laugh and gave us the best gift ever: day to day living with Garrett and Lydia. It's been harder than I can describe to actually leave their house and sleep at our new house but somewhere, somehow, someone said we had to buy a new house? Why is that exactly??? Trish, our time together was worth that awful 28 year gap between when I left for college and when we finally made it back together. There's no going back now! But Ken, if you are missing your "second" wife, just call me and I'll be right over!
So, even though we still have boxes to unpack and things to put away, it's a fantastic feeling to get this big effort behind us. It is one of the last big steps before bringing home Chelsee!
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