Bittersweet and spooky

Today is a big day-- We're closing on our yellow house in an hour and a half.
I decided not to go back to the house last night to say goodbye.  I am unsteady in my emotions about it and I didn't want to make the kids think this is some tragic ending.  We went over there on Saturday to load more stuff from the house and I was a lot bit weepy and didn't really like feeling like we were making some crazy mistake by selling our sweet home.

This morning I talked to my mom and she said it is totally normal to have seller's remorse, just like buyers' remorse.  So at least it's okay to be all torn up about it.  And my nana says there's no use in looking back, so just look ahead and it will all be fine.  Looking ahead!  Hopefully tomorrow I don't feel a huge, gaping, yellow-house shaped void in my heart.  I'll let you know, duh.

Nick is still struggling with some regret with buying this house, which is totally understandable considering what we're up against here.  For example, last time he was in the crawl space, he found that under the kids' playroom is a stinking JACK literally holding up the room!  Awesome.  Surprises like that.  Surprises like reaching into my oven mitt drawer and discovering little mouse poopies in the drawer and INSIDE MY OVEN MITT!!!  Of course I'd probably enjoy a good snuggle in an oven glove if I were a precious little rodent too, but as a human I'd prefer if they didn't find their way into the cabinet, up the wall, and over the edge of the drawer to poop on my pot holders.  It's just unnecessary.  And if we're being honest... slightly unsanitary.

I'm also pretty darn certain I found a flea yesterday, which Nick was all paranoid would happen since we have acquired the outside cat along with our house.  I love Jack but I definitely don't want fleas.  And no, I'm not saying our dog is completely without fault because he has a much cozier coat of fur for building a flea-house than that cat does.  Either way, both animals got a flea treatment, Howdy got a VERY thorough and exciting bath, and our bedding etc got a nice bleachy, hot-watery, super agitation-y laundering.  It was a busy day here in "Mama's Celebrating!!" Land.

stuff to celebrate:
We brought over some of my favorite pieces of furniture on Saturday, and things are really getting sweeter looking in here!  Feels so nice to surround yourself with special pieces of furniture when you are trying to settle in.  When you're a furniture-junkie like moi, it's a perma-high.

We got this pie safe at an estate sale this past summer.  From my extensive research, I have determined that it was built in the 1860's.  Would you shoot me if I told you it was $4?  Four bucks.

It'll need help with the doors of course, and needs two new drawers built.

It actually doesn't make the blue walls look worse!  Excited to paint them though :)

I also brought this in, but it needed a major scrub-down so I'll explain more on that later.  This was at the same estate sale and it was also embarrassingly affordable.  A little (big) treasure hidden in that little sale.

I know... not the best shot amidst the unpacking craziness.

Yesterday the kids got up early and made me breakfast in bed.  See?  The picture proves it.

Naturally I was thrilled so I thought I better reward them by doing something unrelated to scrubbing and unpacking.  We went to the A-DORA-BLAY Heritage Square... It was a little Halloween carnival that we HAD to partake in.  We went with my friend Carly, who happens to be mother to Roo's favorite friend Joslyn.  They had a ball and stuff:

So spooky!!

 
 Better wrap this up.  Talk to you soon-like!

Howdy Folks!

I have a feeling that most of my posts are going to be comin' at you live from Knox's Bottom Bunk.
Little Brother has a real knack for needing his mommy to lie down with him while he settles down for his nap.  It's a nice little habit RHYTHM we're in.  But, the nice thing is that I get to actually sit down, or lie down, with a warm little stinky boy next to me, for a good half hour daily.  He's wiggly and hyper and won't sit still for a good chunk of the "GO! TO! SLEEP!" process.  But some times, like right now, he's kissing my nose.  He's kissing my eyes, and my eyebrows.  And he just tried to lick my hand.  What more could I want than this stolen moment of almost-peace with m'boy, while his sweet and sleepy big sister naps in the bed above us.  It's nap time, when everything is settling down that I can really think about it and say that truly, I love today.

But YESTERDAY we did a really cool thing, wanna know what it was?
Do you?

We bought another house!  We bought our dream little plot and sweet little dream house in the most precioso town you'll ever know this side of the Rockies... Golden, Colorado!!  I can't believe it!  Did you know we could do it?  I didn't!

We've spent five years in our home in the adorable Wheat Ridge, CO... Fixing it up and making it pretty.  We are one income and we've really made the most of our budget.  One thing I don't think I've made the most of is each passing day with my kids, who are growing so so so fast.  As we start our new journey, I want my main focus to be on what I'm DOING, and not what I NEED to do.  We all have a list a mile long, posted on our fridge, in our minds, in our phones... reminders everywhere we turn that we have somewhere to be soon or ten minutes ago.  I hope this new home is my chance to reclaim the RIGHT NOW that I tend to overlook.  My hope is that this home is where I connect with myself as a mother, as a designer... Maybe as a wife.  Priorities, you know.  I might need a lot of reminders for this big, focused task ahead of me.  So I'm gonna write about it.  You guys can keep me on track.


I'm sure I'll explain way too much about our home search and how we ended up closing on our dream fixer-upper in beautiful Golden.  I'm eager to find some time to learn how to set up this "blog", so I can explain way too much about everything.  That's sort of who I am, as you know... Lucky you :)

Ok bye!