Sunday - isn't that the day of rest???

Well, not around here anyway... We are back hard at work! The shelves have been put in nicely in the kitchen caninets and they look great! Even if I did do them myself!!! lol! We painted Cooper's room this morning but decided after a coat of satin paint that we definitely needed another, so off to Lowe's I went - about the 5th trip in two days and I still forgot to pick up a couple of small brushes to finish out the painting that we did in the den week before last. So, trip number 6 before the end of the day! I am really hoping Cooper's room turns out nicely with the second coat, that satin paint is very different than the eggshell!! Erik is starting on the second coat now... (yes, he is working while I am blogging) :-). We also cleaned out the workshop area off of the basement so it is ready to take in all of the new things coming tomorrow (Erikis tools mostly). We filled the back of the Yukon with stuff to take to the dump - oh, yea- gotta figure out where the dump is! Let me find my Things to Do List again...

I am already missing the girls but know that if they were here we would not have gotten as much done :-)! This house is very quiet without them though!!! I love to hear their echoes in this empty home. So, I will be looking forward to Friday! Guess we'll get some good sleep tonight since the movers will be here tomorrow at 8am with all of our stuff!

Getting Ready for Move In Day

Today is Saturday and Erik and I are hard at work! The girls are at their grandparent's home in Wilson, NC for the week - aren't Grandparents great!!!!! :-) And Erik and I are working hard to get the house ready for move in day!

Let's see, where do we begin... Bright and early this morning we removed the chandeliers that were in the dining room and replaced them with the ones from the den - now I need to find something to put in the den :-) of course! I also decided that I wanted to paint the inside of my cabinets another color because they all have lead glass in the front of them so you can see through and the pepto bismol pink just wasn't cutting it for me... So, I started kilzing all of the shelves from the cabinets this morning and have kilz'd all of the inside of the cabinets as well as painted the insides of all of the cabinets and almost have finished painting all of the shelves a beautiful blue/gray which matches the gray backsplash perfectly :-)! I am feeling like I am on HGTV - but one of the shows where the owners do all of the work unfortunately!!!! Erik and I then taped Cooper's room after removing a built-in shelving unit - hard work!!!! and Erik and his sister, Deby, came over to help and they put the first coat of kilz on it. erik is now putitng the second coat on while I am hard at work writing on this blog... ah...

So, until later...

On the Road Again

Well, today is the first day in our new home! The moving company finished loading all of our belongings yesterday at 5pm. The girls and I had dinner with some very close friends and then said goodbye to more of our closest friends - can we say.... waaaaay too many tears shed last night! We loaded up the car with our bags and Hoyt of course, and headed to High Point at 7:45 last night and arrived at our new home at 12:00 midnight. I was very glad to arrive! Put the girls to bed and unloaded the car before calling it a night! We have had a great first day hanging out here... We had lunch at McAllister's Deli - one of my all time favorite places - take sme back to my college days at the Bulldog Deli and you can't beat the sweet tea!!! I am beginning to remember the real south!!! I guess I missed it more than I realized, it has been 8 years since I have really lived in the south... and when I saw the magnolias blooming in our front yard today... I realized how happy I am to be back home! About time to call it a day... more tomorrow!

The MOVE

Well, we are now in Day Two of the packing. They packed the study, dining room, kitchen, and family room yesterday and the basement and garage today. They are planning on doing the upstairs and outdoors tomorrow. I have already taken my camera to High Point or I would take pictures to post on here of all of the craziness!! I really can't believe this is happening! I live in the present most of the time, I don't spend alot of time worrying about the past or thinking about the future so, when it actually becomes the present - I am sometimes surprised... like now...

I am very excited about the possibilities of living in High Point but, I will miss my friends in Winchester dearly. This is honestly the true definition of BITTERSWEET! It is definitely proving to be the hardest move so far (and that says alot when you have moved 4 times in 8 years). The girls are doing great with the whole thing - Cooper really doesn't totally understand what is going on (although I think she knows something is going on since she woke me up crying four times last night) and Sophia is doing very well. She has had many playdates over the past few days and I believe this is helping her to say goodbye in her own way. I dread certain parts of the day everyday b/c I know I will run into someone or see someone for the last time and I am finding myself in tears more often now...

So, until tomorrow... a new day...

Our New Home

Here are a couple of pictures of our new home. I am VERY excited about moving to North Carolina (a little further south) and I love our new home... It takes me back to growing up in Mississippi with the large porch, white columns and mostly, the three magnolias in the front yard. Can't wait to move in and make it OUR home!

Family

This is a picture from our Princess and Pirate celebration at our church of my beautiful family! Today is Father's Day and I have truly been blessed with a wonderful husband and father! He loves being a great Dad and the girls love him dearly! He inspires me daily to be the best parent I can possibly be and I love hime even more for that!!!

Well, where do I start??? I am so new at this but so many of my friends have been blogging for years... I thought I would give it try! I am exited about starting this blog and moving to our new home in High Point, NC in the same week!!! So, here we go...