Home Owners

Last Thursday, we became home owners again! It's been almost exactly seven years since we purchased our first house. And it has been just a little over four years since we sold that house in Arizona and moved east for school. So it feels good to go from being renters to being home owners again.

Of course, there is plenty of work to be done getting the house ready to live in. It was a foreclosure/bank-owned property, and it's pretty dirty. I don't happen to think that I'm an extraordinarily clean housekeeper, but I'm finding that I must be above average, at least! Whoever lived in this house previously must have rarely cleaned the carpets and never dusted a baseboard! Yuck.

So this week and next week will be devoted to painting (yes, the walls were in sore need of painting!) and cleaning in addition to packing up the rest of our stuff for moving. Over the weekend, my mom helped - ok, she basically took charge and did most of the work - painting the family room and office. Today I gave the boys' room a coat of paint and hope to finish it tomorrow. Then, onto Cupcake's room (as she is now being called), and maybe our bedroom too. I've got "before" pics saved and will make sure to take some "after" pics too for posting.

Thanks to a little inspiration from my aunt, the boys are going to have an animal-themed room. Mr. Blue-Eyes especially loves animals, and we already have a tiger lamp and a cheetah picture. So we'll round it out a little with some tiger throw-rugs (for Christmas...shhhh!) for on their beds and a few more safari/jungle pictures on the walls. If you happen to run across any fun safari animal accessories in your shopping, let me know!