First 48-Hours

Praise the Lord! We closed on our new home Monday afternoon! We are just amazed to see how the Lord has worked. I apologize as I have not been focused on taking pictures, but below are a few glimpses of the first 48-hours.

As we prepared to go over after dinner Monday evening, we suddenly realized that there was a whole bunch of stuff to take over just for cleaning and such that we hadn't thought about beforehand!

Monday was very rainy, but that deterred no one! :o)

I suddenly realized that I will probably be doing a LOT more laundry! :o)

My wonderful husband immediately launched into the rather ungainly bushes, rain and all!

I've been cleaning . . . bathrooms, kitchen counters, floors, etc. :o)

The kids have been having a blast just running around--with no furniture or other stuff there's almost nothing off limits--a child's paradise! :o) And yes, we brought jammies over so that they could change before we left and go straight to bed when we got home. So much for schedules! :o)

Tuesday was dry and beautiful, so we got to do a bit more outside. Chris replaced bulbs in the outside lights, and I worked on cleaning out a few of the flower beds. Once the sun went down, we went inside where Chris cleaned the basement and installed some lights while I vacuumed all of the carpets and cleaned the downstairs bathroom which had not seen the underside of a papertowel in a VERY long time. Eeek.

I am SO excited about all of the bulbs popping up! I can identify most of them (Thank you, Grandma LeClair!), but I'm going to have to enlist some help with a few. I'll post more flower pictures in a few days. :o)

Phlox is one of my favorites, but I've never enjoyed the privilege of having it in my own yard--now we have it in abundance!!! :o)

I'll try to get a few more pictures, especially as we get beyond cleaning to painting. :o) We're definitely looking forward to having some reinforcements join us in the next few weeks. Just a couple extra blessings though . . .

1. We found a white side-by-side fridge, 2 years old, on Craig's List for less than we paid for our top-bottom fridge 4 years ago!

2. We found a nice pedastal sink to replace the rather nasty one in the downstairs bathroom for less than you'd pay for a dinner for two!