A couple of updates.
First, Emily. We went through her teething period a couple of months ago when the bottom ones were coming in. Now we are going through it again for her top ones. We can see them and feel them, but they are not there yet. So she is pretty uncomfortable which, because we are 100% responsible for her happiness, makes our lives pretty tough. Lack of sleep never killed anyone, I think. She is still standing when holding onto something but not standing without help yet. Who knows when walking will happen? She is not really talking but makes pretty interesting noises a lot. She says “ma-ma” when she is getting ready to become really upset and despite my argument that she is calling for “mom”, Patti thinks she is just making a noise.
Now on to our house. We closed last Friday, December 6. We took the keys and stopped by the house. We both had things to do, so we just wanted to stop by and walk through our first home. Besides an early snow storm still lingering, it was pretty cool. From the outside. Then we went into the house. It was very unclean and there was a ton of s**t in the basement, in the garage, on the walls, and in closets. Later that day we talked to the home owners (previous) that (this is making a very long story short) told us we can keep want we want and throw out the rest. The cool thing is that the first couple of days in the house were like a treasure hunt where we found some very cool stuff. The bad part was that we had to throw out 37 years of stuff. Oh well, life could be worse. We spent the first two days (weekend) and the next few nights (after work) cleaning, ripping up carpets, moving furniture (we bought some antique furniture that had to be moved from the second floor to the basement), painting ceilings, and throwing stuff out. The floors are getting done tomorrow, then we paint the walls and trim, then work on the kitchen, then the bathroom, then the garage, then the…you get the idea. We got a good deal on a house in a nice neighborhood, in an over-inflated Boston market because there was a lot of work to do. But hey, time is one thing I have on my side.
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
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