I noticed that I haven’t posted on my blog since March! Yes, I said March! That is insane, even for me! But It has been a super busy year for me.
The kids got out of school and we had a busy summer playing with friends and just hanging out. At that time I just didn’t have time or the interest in keeping up my blog much. I just had way to many things on my plate already. So I just left it hanging. It isn’t like a have a billion blog followers or anything!
I have been searching for the perfect home for my family for a few years on and off but last fall started going full force, determined to get us out of our crappy apartment and into a space to call our own. We found one we liked but it needed some roof work and we were worried things would go down hill for us quickly if we got that and had the roof situation over our heads. So we held off and just kept looking. We found a few that were just OK but nothing we liked as much as the one with the roof situation. Well our Realtor happened to take over as the Realtor for the home we liked and let us in on the fact that the house was up for grabs and the price was even lower and the owners were going to fix some of the problems..mainly the roof!! So we were like..oh yes, absolutely, get us in on this and fast! Well it was fast. From the day we found out to the day we owned it..it was maybe 30 days! Well we signed the papers at the end of July and that night we started moving stuff in. I couldn’t wait to get out of that apartment! We had black mold in the basement because of constant flooding problems that the owners knew about and did nothing to fix. Anyway..we got our house! I am so excited and have been for the two months we have lived here. It is OURS! We have fantastic neighbors and the kids love having their own rooms and I really enjoy the fact that they don’t fight at bedtime anymore! Another perk just for me..I have my own sewing room!! I love it and I have spent a TON of time in there over the past two months. We have a really nice yard with chestnut trees and a walnut tree, beautiful garden beds all around the house and my favorite thing?? The huge butterfly bush out front. We have had tons and tons of beautiful butterflies visiting us daily and still with just a few buds left on the bush we still get some monarch butterflies that show up each and every day. Because of the nuts from the trees right now we also have tons and tons of squirrels! They are funny to watch. Especially when our cat Ruby goes jumping window to window to catch a glimpse of them.
I have a ton of photos to share but I have to go find them and upload them to wordpress which I don’t have time to get done right now. But soon I will be sharing photos of our home. We still need to paint the walls throughout and take down some wallpaper off of the plaster walls, which is going to be interesting. Does anyone know how to do that the right way? We have wood floors throughout except for my sewing room which has a low pile carpet. Two full baths, a sun porch, a deck and a beautiful kitchen! Like I said, I love it!! Our house was built in 1879 so it is very old but I love all the charm.
I have to run but I will be back to post photos soon!
Crazy and Crafty at Home 