the move

So I moved over the course of this week. It was an experience that I have never experienced before. We had been trying to get this house for about 6 months. My mom wanted to have a bigger gathering area so when we have extended family over we have room to put them. So that’s what sparked the idea of moving. At first it started off of just “oh it would be nice to move” and that kind of thing. So we got an agent and we set off house searching. I think we probably looked at around 30 houses. Most of our weekends were filled with looking at a couple of houses each day. Then we found this house. But we couldn’t get an appointment to come and see it. So we drove by the house and my mom suggested that we go ask and see if we could look inside the house. They were a very nice family, and said yea it was no problem. So we looked inside and we really liked it. The walls were painted really weird patterns and colors but other than that we really liked the house. So we kept on it put an offer on the house and did all of this stuff and after about 6 months we got the news that they accepted our offer and we could continue to get the house. Then after another additional 1 and a half months we signed and got the house.

It took us a couple weeks to completely move in. We started packing and taking non essential items over to the new place to the basement. Then this past weekend not yesterday but the weekend before, we had the big moving day. It took only took about half of the day to move the rest of the stuff to the new house. It didn’t take very long. We had a big turnout of help, (which we all appreciated very much.) But I forgot to tell you that before all of the moving that took place we had to get everything painted and the carpets cleaned. Like I said before, very briefly, they had very weird and abstract designs and colors on their walls. The lines were not straight, there were pink, purple, orange and every other color except blue was painted in that house. There were zigzag lines up and down the walls and none of the lines were straight. So we had the entire house painted. It took 2 weeks and 5 people to paint the house. It took a whole lot of time and effort. We found their job chart and the people before us only vacuumed once a month. So the carpets were very, very, very dirty. So they were also cleaned. We had many more exciting experiences with this house, but now we are mostly moved in and settled. I can’t wait for that day to unpack the last box and move in that last piece of furniture. Oh what a great day that would be. I will never forget my first move. J