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Showing posts with label house. Show all posts
Showing posts with label house. Show all posts

Saturday, January 8, 2011

House packing

From this...

Let the packing begin! And since I'm terrible at organizing when it comes to packing, my sister is here to rescue me. I usually start with a plan, but end up walking around, filling various boxes instead of staying focused on one, and the items are no more packed than when I started. Fortunately, my sister is still here.

Quick side story: she went to Italy, no work (she's also an OT), ate lots of good food, stayed with friends and family for 2 months, came back to the US, and is going to the tropical Azores to be a therapy program director at a school on a navy base. Tough life, I know.

And she's not leaving until next week. I need to milk this.

Here's the result of her gracious assistance. And we were also lucky enough to do this while Alex was in school. Otherwise, there would have been all sorts of drama involving her wanting this book and not wanting us to put away this toy...you get the idea.

...to this!



















One room down...

Thank goodness for the organization-obsessed Mama'lene's in the world. What would we do without them?

What is your packing formula? Or do you just randomly throw it in like I do?

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Plans Stalled, Maybe

Why go to a third world country when we already live in one? We are currently experiencing bureaucratic woes regarding a house renovation done over 3 years ago! What this means is that we might need to postpone this trip until we resolve the issue with a certain large city agency. I know this all sounds so cryptic but I don't think it's a good idea to publicly divulge the details. We even pulled the house off the rental market. And we nearly had the perfect family willing to stay in our place! Time line may still go as planned, but for now we are stuck.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Yellow house officially for rent


After the boys busted their butts replacing pebbles between the bluestone, recreating a "retaining wall" for the back garden (Efrain you are a craftsman's hero), and loads of mulch, the garden looked spectacular. And inside, Vicki and Lorraine were busily staging produce and flowers... Here are the results: 158 South Oxford, the Rental.