T minus 5!

5 days until moving day.

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This week will be all about getting the house ready to move in.
We decided a month ago that we are moving on the 17th, ready or not. 
We are definitely not ready, but the moving truck will be here at 8 am on Saturday, so we are getting our little butts in gear!
Last Saturday was my first weekend day off since we bought the house! We spent all day there preparing the kitchen. 
Before we started we didn't have a sink or microwave or oven and I wasn't about to move into the house without a way to cook and wash my hands.
I am happy to say we now have a functional kitchen! 
Yay!
Yay yay yay!!

I am pretty pleased with how the kitchen is turning out. This was not our priority project initially, but it quickly turned into a priority once we realized how central it was to all of our other plans. 
We still have some finishing touches to make the kitchen prettier, but once we move in we will have so much more time to get things done.
Pat is taking a couple days off this week to place the HVAC unit on the roof and hopefully get more ducting installed. We are going to be sleeping in the family room until we can get the ceilings put in so the sooner the better!
The 45 minute drive each way has really been weighing on us. We have time constraints when we go over after Pat gets off work because of dinner time and bedtime for the kids. It has been very stressful and full of a lot of personal growth. I am so happy to be able to assist Pat with projects and it's given me such a feeling of strength and accomplishment! 

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