And We're In!

We are finally in.  It’s been a long time coming, like 10 months, but we spent our first night in the new house last night…. Well some of us did.  The furnace decided to stop working yesterday morning, so the kids slept at Oma’s house to be sure they would be warm enough.  We ended up with enough space heaters to keep us warm, but the house is still too disorganized for the kids yet, really.  I can’t say I slept much, though.  There’s just too much going on in my head, so here I sit, in bed, waiting for the coffee to brew at 8am, with my sleeping man beside me (scratch that… snoring man) making a mental list of all that needs to be done still.
We’re in a bit of a state, actually.  What’s finished is outstanding, especially when compared to the before pictures, but there is a lot that’s not finished yet.  When you consider that one guy (my marvelous, hero and fiancé) did 90% of the work with some help from some amazing friends and family (Elly, Dad, Jay, Jason, Matt and Lys, you are all so very appreciated) a top to bottom, inside and out renovation on 1500 square feet, in 9 months, is not so bad.
We have bones, pretty much.  There are walls with electrical outlets, ceilings with lights, a toilet, a fridge, a couple of sinks, and the most beautiful hardwood floors I’ve ever seen.  Really, they’re breathtaking.  Oh, and a whole lotta stuff that has to go somewhere in these big empty rooms!  My hugantic walk-in closet is full of clothes and shoes and linens, but they’re all in bags and boxes on the floor.  A closet organizer is fairly far down the list of things to do.  We’re aiming for a stove and HEAT first!  The living room is wall to wall boxes.  My beautiful antique (I think) cast iron, clawfoot bathtub is not quite hooked up yet and still needs a very good, very thorough cleaning before it can be used, but I can see it from where I sit (the bathroom has no door yet) and it makes me smile.
Promise.  That’s what I see everywhere I look right now.  From the missing mouldings to the missing countertops, there’s a whole lot of newness to be made in this home.  It’s going to be fun, and it’s definitely going to be home.  No, it definitely IS home.