Setting up Camp

Well, the house became ours Monday and the past few days have been quite the experience.  It seems like every night we fall into bed exhausted! 

Monday we closed at 11 am, took our realtors out to lunch, and then immediately hit the ground running.  By 9 pm we had almost everything moved into the new house.  Since our first project is redoing the kitchen, we decided to set up a temporary camp in the family room, complete with all our kitchen things, as well as our new fridge. :)

It’s a bit cramped, but it works.

 

Other than that, our only real useable room is the master suite.  Things are starting to take shape in there too.

I’m so excited about having two walk in closets.  I love, love, love organized closets, so this is a dream come true.

We’re starting to get some of our personal items and decorations up as well.  And yes, I know there’s a big ugly hole…still working on that one. 

Slowly but surely it’s starting to feel like home.  Now on to the dirty work of renovating.  We’ve been a bit delayed in that because there’s been some things that need to get done first.  Namely, some serious cleaning, as well as taking care of a mouse problem.  Yes, a mouse problem.  Since I absolutely detest mice, that’s a HUGE problem.  Our first night here, one of the little buggers dared enter my bedroom.  In case you didn’t read that, he entered MY BEDROOM!  While the light was on and we were standing there talking, no less.  The next day I kept hearing them in a back closet of the master suite, and while cleaning I happened to glance over at the jacuzzi bathtub and see another little bugger climbing up the inside of it.  So gross!  Thankfully Andy was sweet enough to come right over (while I sat precariously on the sink counter).  I guess the mouse had been in there all night and I hadn’t noticed because coats had been stacked around the rim.

In our makeshift pantry, it was even worse…there were droppings all over my food cans and they had even nibbled on a pudding packet.  So, cleaning up that area was urgent as well.  I set a billion traps and caught several little ones, as well as one behemoth in the pantry area.  Haven’t seen hide nor hair of them since, so I think we scared the little critters away…at least for now. 

So, now it’s down to the nitty gritty.  It’s going to be a tiring, long, and sometimes frustrating road.  But we are ready.  SO ready!  Welcome to our home.