I don't really know what happened to the month of September. We closed on our new house on August 31 and worked on getting it cleaned up to move in that weekend. Friends from our new Sunday School class helped unload our PODS (note to readers - do not use PODS - they stole over $100 from us and justified it by saying that their sales people were vague enough in their language that although it is easy to see things from our point of view, they can't do anything about it) that Saturday and we were ready to get settled.
However, we ended up needing to stay with Kat's parents for another two weeks!
Bedtime ritual - story time with Pop Pop
The sellers did a great job of hiding the fact that they were complete and total slobs who let their cats use the floors as litter and never seemed to clean more than necessary. They hid the smells with discrete air fresheners stuck in every inconspicuous location. We were disappointed during the walk through but didn't think it was that big of a deal to change our minds at the last minute. After having the carpets cleaned it was discovered that the second bedroom on the first floor (the room designated as the nursery) was so saturated with cat pee that the carpet and baseboards had to be ripped up. The bathroom adjacent to that room had been noted as having no sealer around the bath tub, what the inspector failed to notice is that under the linoleum was years of mold and mildew build-up because of this. That room had to be ripped up completely too in order to get rid of that smell and filth.
Eventually we decided that the smells were to a minimum and it was time to get moved in. This was a bit difficult with Jason traveling a lot for work, and Kat left to her own with a very busy two year old while being 8 months pregnant. Due to low platelet counts and her history of HELPP, Kat had to see the doctor and have blood work done weekly. Between doctors appointments. women's bible study, MOPS, Library Story time, and the occasional play date, I think it will be 2013 until we are unpacked and settled!
Our list of projects will keep us busy for a long time. The first thing we did was to make Daniel's room totally awesome in attempts to ease the transition. We even bought him a huge John Deere Front Loader as a welcome to your new room present the first night we stayed there.
Jason (with some help from his dad) has already trimmed back several overgrown trees, ripped out the pond, repaired rotten beams on the shed, cleaned out and guarded the gutters, replaced six windows, repaired the drywall in the nursery, started painting a bit, and more. We'll try to show the progress as we go.
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