In three weeks as long as everything goes well my husband and I will be moved into our new house and all our belongings will be in our home unpacked from the moving truck.
I can't imagine trying to rush everything and get us moved out of here within two weeks but if I had to do it I would.
Need to get my shoes on, finally get everything to Good Will that we're donating, go to Kohls and then back home again.
Will be spending some time with family tonight. Look forward to having a night off and relaxing. Joint birthday celebration as well as mother's day celebration for my mom and grandma. Plan on taking pictures and possibly some video.
After today it will be packing, cleaning and driving what's left to storage every day till we get the moving truck.
Just hope that everything continues to move in a positive direction.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Two Weeks
Two weeks to do everything that needs to get taken care of around the house. Will be taking donations over to Good Will today, and begin packing around the house this week. Hopefully the interest rate will be lower today, I'll know more once our loan consultant calls me back.
Yesterday my husband and I went out to a few more furniture stores and picked up a few things we needed at Target. I've been thinking about the possibility of a round table in the dining room. Saw one yesterday that should hold eight people around it. Suppose if I need more seating than that I can always buy a card table and folding chairs and set more people near the dining room in the foyer, or there is always the breakfast room across the kitchen.
Hope to get some good deals on a new bed frame, new couches, a table, refrigerator, washer and dryer. Original prices on a nice table for the dining room were around $2000-3000 when I was first looking, I'll be very happy if that cost will cover everything. However I know it will be a little more than that.
Yesterday my husband and I went out to a few more furniture stores and picked up a few things we needed at Target. I've been thinking about the possibility of a round table in the dining room. Saw one yesterday that should hold eight people around it. Suppose if I need more seating than that I can always buy a card table and folding chairs and set more people near the dining room in the foyer, or there is always the breakfast room across the kitchen.
Hope to get some good deals on a new bed frame, new couches, a table, refrigerator, washer and dryer. Original prices on a nice table for the dining room were around $2000-3000 when I was first looking, I'll be very happy if that cost will cover everything. However I know it will be a little more than that.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
The Book Fair
The book fair that my husband and I went to on Saturday, May 1st was busy. We had to wait about ten minutes after the special handicap hour to be let in to browse, they lost track of the time of course. People who arrived at the regular time of 10am got to rush in right away so that means everyone else only got fifty minutes instead of an hour. I would have appreciated the extra ten minutes. My husband and I found an old political election game that came inside a box, who knows if all the pieces are there or if it's even entertaining to play; but it was $2.00 so we decided to purchase it. I was able to pick up a gardening book as I plan to have a flower and vegetable garden at the new house. We also found several other books to add to our collection, part of this new collection of books was a book from the movie 'Back To The Future', color pictures with bits and pieces of the story. Because this movie is one of my favorites I thought this was very neat, and for fifty cents not a bad purchase price either.
After going to the book fair we picked up brunch at First Watch off of Olive and Ballas Rd. Enjoyed my veggie wrap, potatoes and fruit while my husband enjoyed a full stack of pancakes.
Then we were off to look at a few furniture stores. We decided to look at Value City Furniture and Weekends Only in north county. Saw a couch set, a table, and a bed frame set that we liked. Overall a good price on everything considering I thought we'd be spending thousands of dollars of the type of table I'd originally wanted to buy for the new house. We also drove out to Kohls and American Furniture and looked around but didn't find anything so we headed home.
Had a nice relaxing evening, enjoyed catching up on one of our favorite tv shows Top Chief, watched a few recorded programs on the dvr and then played a game of Scrabble.
It was a long productive, tiring day and I'm just happy that my knee and foot aren't throbbing like they were earlier once we first arrived home. I have no idea how many hours I was on my feet today.
Sunday if Good Will or the St. Vincent Thrift Shop is open I plan on making a donation trip. It will be an entire full car load of items. Next donation before we move will be left over furniture that did not sell and we don't want to take with us, and a huge lot of clothing.
I realized after checking the calendar that my husband and I have about three weeks until we close on our condo and our new house, being that everything continues to go smoothly and works out for us. It has been a very bumpy and emotional ride so far. I will be very happy once this experience is at it's conclusion. I'm enthusiastic to what the future will bring my husband and I. I just hope that what we have to look forward to will be taking place in our new house in Wentzville.
After going to the book fair we picked up brunch at First Watch off of Olive and Ballas Rd. Enjoyed my veggie wrap, potatoes and fruit while my husband enjoyed a full stack of pancakes.
Then we were off to look at a few furniture stores. We decided to look at Value City Furniture and Weekends Only in north county. Saw a couch set, a table, and a bed frame set that we liked. Overall a good price on everything considering I thought we'd be spending thousands of dollars of the type of table I'd originally wanted to buy for the new house. We also drove out to Kohls and American Furniture and looked around but didn't find anything so we headed home.
Had a nice relaxing evening, enjoyed catching up on one of our favorite tv shows Top Chief, watched a few recorded programs on the dvr and then played a game of Scrabble.
It was a long productive, tiring day and I'm just happy that my knee and foot aren't throbbing like they were earlier once we first arrived home. I have no idea how many hours I was on my feet today.
Sunday if Good Will or the St. Vincent Thrift Shop is open I plan on making a donation trip. It will be an entire full car load of items. Next donation before we move will be left over furniture that did not sell and we don't want to take with us, and a huge lot of clothing.
I realized after checking the calendar that my husband and I have about three weeks until we close on our condo and our new house, being that everything continues to go smoothly and works out for us. It has been a very bumpy and emotional ride so far. I will be very happy once this experience is at it's conclusion. I'm enthusiastic to what the future will bring my husband and I. I just hope that what we have to look forward to will be taking place in our new house in Wentzville.
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