Moving day!

Green Meadow is the place to be! So goes the song that my friends were singing as they moved me into my new abode! And so it is. After a summer full of worrying about housing prices, offers, counter-offers, home inspections and other various and sundry concerns, i find myself now the owner of a home! At times, as previous posts have indicated, that is alternately a scary, cool, intimidating and wonderful thing. Sometimes all of those things and more in the space of a few minutes! I thought i'd just show a few pics from my dedicated moving crew - i apologize if any of my faithful laborers were missed in the pictures - if anyone has pictures from that day - i'd appreciate it if they could shoot them over this way! I want to thank everyone who so ably and willingly helped me on that day. My thanks come from the bottom of my heart!

Dad toiling away with his

poor nose stuffed up with

kleenex as his allergies

decided to act up big time!Perched on the front steps of my new abode - feel free to come and visit!
The moment of truth - does the key fit?? There's no going back now!

Carina and Laura toiled away to get my books put away on the shelves

and things look great! The Book of Praise is in its proper place thanks to the girls and all my other favorites are on display. It is such an odd thing not to be living exclusively in my bedroom, but rather to have an entire house through which to strew my belongings. It is also amazing just how many things you need to buy in the first few days - here's my list...

- a broom

- chair foot coverers for the hardwood floor

- a good set of screwdrivers

- toilet seats

- shelves

- mats for the front and back doors

- new locks

- a rake, shovel and other various garden implements

- etc, etc, etc.... the list goes on and on!

Mom working hard to pull up the carpets - lurking underneath was nice hardwood floor which with some hard work, should look great!

Brenda, Nicole, Carina and Helen toiled away in the kitchen, cleaning out the outdated cupboards and finding spaces for all of my stuff - apparently i have too much stuff according to them!
One of the first things we did in the house was to take down these lovely wall ornaments - i would look at them through the window whenever i drove by to and from work and vowed that that would be the first thing to go - they now rest temporarily and gingerly on my wall in the "70"s corner of the basement...
All of this stuff had accumulated in the old place - i didn't really think i had that much but apparently it is a lot more than i remembered or expected!

The old apartment, the cupboards as bare as Mother Hubbards!

The girls in the basement, surrounded by a sea of boxes - taking action and throwing things out - but wait, i might need that box from the hair dryer i purchased in 2002! At one point i heard lots of commotion down there and these two were hard at work bashing each other with foam and whatever else happened to be at hand!