New Home
Well...we're here. We moved all day yesterday with the help of four students from school. They were convinced to help when they were offered money. The kids were great, they only fought six or seven hundred times during the day. ;) Today our backs and legs and hands hurt, but we have begun the slow work of unpacking and arranging and wondering where everything will fit. We moved up in terms of yard sized, as this picture shows, but we diminished our overall inside space. This was done for financial reasons, but we are happy to be closer to each other...for the time being. It reminds us of our Hull house, with the living room melding into the diningroom, melding into the kitchen. But Marcela has a studio, and we have space to expand the house in a few years if all else goes well. The best part, though, is the yard. This time, our backyard has room to kick around a soccer ball, strike a tent, and even put a pool. We will probably build a ground level deck in the next few weeks under the carport roof. Right now, as the picture below shows, we have put our outdoor chairs and sundry other things there. Today was windy, which blew it all into a pile. Ken R. and I assembled the plastic shed in the background last weekend. Too much house work has set me behind in grading papers, which I must return to shortly. The kids are playing ball in the back yard. Maxim has asked that we never move again. Noah still thinks we might be hiding the Maynard house somewhere. Although he has slept soundly during the night and during his nap, so the arrival has settled something in him. We are all tired, but relieved to be in.
Well...we're here. We moved all day yesterday with the help of four students from school. They were convinced to help when they were offered money. The kids were great, they only fought six or seven hundred times during the day. ;) Today our backs and legs and hands hurt, but we have begun the slow work of unpacking and arranging and wondering where everything will fit. We moved up in terms of yard sized, as this picture shows, but we diminished our overall inside space. This was done for financial reasons, but we are happy to be closer to each other...for the time being. It reminds us of our Hull house, with the living room melding into the diningroom, melding into the kitchen. But Marcela has a studio, and we have space to expand the house in a few years if all else goes well. The best part, though, is the yard. This time, our backyard has room to kick around a soccer ball, strike a tent, and even put a pool. We will probably build a ground level deck in the next few weeks under the carport roof. Right now, as the picture below shows, we have put our outdoor chairs and sundry other things there. Today was windy, which blew it all into a pile. Ken R. and I assembled the plastic shed in the background last weekend. Too much house work has set me behind in grading papers, which I must return to shortly. The kids are playing ball in the back yard. Maxim has asked that we never move again. Noah still thinks we might be hiding the Maynard house somewhere. Although he has slept soundly during the night and during his nap, so the arrival has settled something in him. We are all tired, but relieved to be in.
