A Cleaning Machine

Mr. C absolutely loves the central vac in our new house. He has vacuumed for several hours. He has to finish his homework before he can vacuum.

A note about the photo. I used my new camera (Canon EOS Rebel T3) to take this, but I still haven't learned how to use it properly. I'm going to start a photography class in February, so hopefully the pictures will get better. I'm also starting my next education class tomorrow, so I'm keeping busy, busy, busy!

Kitchen: Check

It doesn't feel like home until you can skip the drive thru and cook your own meals

Things are slowly getting unpacked and put away. And put away again as we discover a better place for them. If you've ever moved then you know what I'm talking about. The dishes get put in one cabinet, but then you decide they really need to be on the other side of the kitchen. It takes awhile to get everything organized to everybody's taste.

Over the weekend the kids really helped with all the cleaning. And Young Skywalker came up for a day and helped Hubby move lots of heavy stuff from the apartment to the house. Hubby was sore at the end of the day, but M said YS felt fine, and had a blast. Big difference between 40 years old and 16 years old.

One of the most exciting things about the house is how close it is to the school. It used to take 25 minutes to get there, but today we made it in 10!!!

Do What You Love

Random school picture

I should be posting pictures of our new house! but I just read this article this morning and wanted to share it. I don't think you have to be a teacher to enjoy it.

We will be moving stuff from the apartment to the house from now until the hired movers come on Tuesday. We will probably have sketchy internet access for a few days too, but I'll still have scheduled posts on the Chattanooga blog. So much to do!

Cousins, Cousins, and More Cousins

We did see grandparents, aunts, uncles, sisters, brothers, and parents as well. But by and large we saw lots of cousins in Indiana!

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Christmas Windows

Here are some Christmas windows I didn't get on my other blog. Enjoy as you prepare for the big day.

Magician

Disco Muppets

Cinderella's Carriage

Santa and the Mrs. ready for a night out on the town

Fireplace

This is a feature of our new house that I was super excited about. We have never had a wood-burning fireplace and I was really looking forward to the smell of it in the winter.

Our house inspector couldn't get the damper open so we had the buyers get it cleaned and inspected. He found a crack in the chimney, making it inoperable.

The sellers offered to either give us the money to fix it, or put in a gas log. It was a tough choice but we went with the gas log. This way it will be done before we move in and we won't procrastinate on fixing it.

Hubby did talk to the man doing the work and told him not to cut the damper, so we can convert it back to wood in the future if we want. It gives us one more project to think about for the future.

Music Man

The girls went off to visit friends in Alabama, so Mr. C and I were left to our own devices. We went to the Creative Discovery Museum. I remember bringing him here in his stroller and he was too little to do anything. Now he's almost too old for most of the activities. He did enjoy the music area. He played Twinkle, Twinkle on the marked steel drum, then taught himself how to play it on the unmarked drum.