Silence...

Our new house is on the corner of a nice quiet residential road and a nice busy road, complete with a mini storage place across the street and the interstate on the other side of that. You'd expect the noise to take some getting used to, right?

But what I'm having the most trouble adjusting to is the silence. Silence. All night. Not one cough coming from the girls' rooms. My oldest has stopped snoring even...something that started a couple months ago. After months of sharing my bed with my oldest (I don't know how parents manage two young kids in the same room....Baby Yarnworks would wake up screaming, startling Big Sister who would then start to scream...just a mess), I'm used to the constant rumble from her side of the bed, intermixed with coughing fits and muffled coughing from Baby Yarnworks' room. Except for the really bad bouts of coughing, I'd grown accustomed to this noise.

And now, there's just silence. When I recognize it for what it is....a sign that my children are finally getting healthy....I smile, grateful that I was able to find them a better home. But when it's just there, while I try to go to sleep at night, it's strange and foreign. Kind of like how it must feel to be able to shower without a child in the bathroom, trying to climb in with you. Strange, but certainly not unwelcome!

Out With The Old...

Pictures of the new house as promised.

First, a look at the craphole we are leaving behind... I will NOT miss all the gross wallpaper combinations....

Our new living room:

The Yarnworks boudoir:

Big Sister's new room. She's very excited she doesn't have to share!

Baby Yarnworks' new room:

Baby Yarnworks poses in the new mold-free main bathroom:

The first meal in the new house:

Excuse the mess...I have way too many cooking-related items. The new kitchen is a bit overwhelmed:

And moving on to the basement. Here is the family room:

And a second full bathroom. Also mold-free. Amazing!

Anyone want to come visit? This is our first ever guest room!

Saving the best for last. My HUGE craft room/office where JL Yarnworks is sure to flourish!

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig

This feels like home. Truly. Even with only 1/5th of our possessions unpacked, even with the strange house noises at night, even with Mr. Yarnworks never having lived here with us....this feels more like home than our last house ever did. It truly doesn't look like much on the outside, but on the inside it is nearly perfect.

There are a few items still left at the old house, like a garage full of tools, but since I'm paying rent through the end of the month, I'm not too terribly stressed about it just yet. Ask me again in two weeks.

As you may have guessed, I now have internet services back. :) I'm working quickly to fill orders that have come in in the last couple of days (and working more quickly to FIND them!) and should be back to relative normal within a couple of weeks I think.

I will have pictures up later tonight I hope. By tomorrow at the latest.

Thanks for all of your support. It's been a very trying couple of weeks and all the advice and words of encouragement have been wonderful.

Housing Update

This will be my last blog entry written from this old, crappy, dilapidated home. I'm very excited about that! The stars have been aligned just right and the universe has been giving me signs along the way and we have a new home!

It doesn't look like much, but this house is so much better for our family even ignoring the mold, health, and safety issues. The girls will no longer have to share a room. Big Sister is VERY excited about that. It also has a large room downstairs absolutely perfect for my home office/knitting studio. AND we will have an honest-to-goodness guest room for the first time in the 9+ years Mr. Yarnworks and I have been together. The yard is a good size and fenced in. I told a friend yesterday that if this house had a 2 car garage, higher ceilings in the basement, and a back door to the backyard that didn't involve going through the garage, this would be a house I would buy. I don't think I could find anything closer to our perfect home to rent, especially given our decision to move quickly and within our budget. What's even cooler is that my boss used to live in this house. We knew it was coming available and while Mr. Yarnworks was home over Christmas, we walked through it. Even before getting hold of him, I knew he would approve of this house and this move. That's made this an easier burden to bear.

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Today, I am packing like a mad woman. Tomorrow we're moving. Unfortunately, my computer will be staying in the old house so I can continue to run the business until internet is hooked up to the new house on Wednesday. I'm hoping to make this move as seamless as possible from the business end.

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I'm really excited about my extra business workspace in the new house. I've felt limited by the space here for awhile. I think this is my year for growth. Everything is falling into place, little by little. I *do* have lots of new yarns and stitch markers I had intended to launch today. They will have to wait. I'm hoping to have lots of goodies for you by next weekend! I'll probably post teasers when my internet is working at the new house.

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Wish us luck. The next couple of days are going to be utter madness!

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(*sidenote: sorry about the weird formatting with the periods. For some reason Blogger gives me fits when I try to space out my paragraphs after a photo.)