12:35 – Home Closing
12:45 – Home Closing Finished
12:46 – Discovered no one has keys to our house to give us
12:47 – Realtor tells us to go get the key out of the lock box at the house.
12:48 – Realtor discovers Title Company left without paying her commission.
12:49 – Todd and I wave goodbye to realtor who is frantically calling Title company.
1:00 – Pick up picnic lunch at McDonald’s
1:10 – Arrive at our new home and proceed to run into ever room claiming it as our own…THIS IS MY LIVINGROOM…THIS IS MY KITCHEN…
1:15 – Dance with Todd in the kitchen
1:18 – Lunch counter side.
1:20 – Planning for the rest of the day
1:45 – Todd heads back to work and I head off to pick up the kids from school.
2:30 – Pick up Sydney and Tatie from School who immediately begin screaming with joy.
2:45 – Make out shopping list of cleaning supplies, paint supplies and paint colors.
3:30 – Pick up Kinsey and head to the store.
3:45 – Spend the next 2 hours going to three different stores doing paint pricing only to discover that the best deal was at the first store. O_o
5:45 – Todd calls, is locked out of apartment.
6:00 – I arrive to save the day and let Todd in to change out of his suit and into cleaning clothes.
6:05 – Collect all the kids free pizza certificates they have earned through school and begin ordering pizza.
6:30 – Three Pizza restaurants later we have 3 personal pan pizzas and 2 medium pizzas in the car and are headed to our new house for the kids to see it for the very first time.
6:45 – Todd opens the front door…More screaming
6:50 – Kids tour basement…more screaming
6:55 – Kids tour upstairs…will the screaming ever end?
7:00 – Screaming stops. Everyone is stuffing their face with free pizza.
7:20 – Begin Vacuuming
7:25 – Meet the Neighbors
7:30 – Meet more neighbors and descover that our kitchen is the envy of the block.
7:40 – Meet even more neighbors. Some who are bearing gifts. We sure have alot of neighbors…
7:50 – More vacuuming
7:55 – Decide that I will never EVER own a dog.
8:00 – Empty vacuum for the 3rd time. And that was just the living room.
8:10 – Girls grossed out at the amount of dog hair in their rooms
8:20 – Arrive back at the apartment and demand everyone bathe.
8:30 – Run through list of people we can beg for help with cleaning and painting this weekend.
9:00 – Type this long blog entry and end it in the hopes that you will read it and come to my aid this weekend! 😀
3 responses to “Home ownership Day 1…”
hahaha. I wish it were a little nearer, my dear, and I’d be there. At least the dog hair is a once-in-a-lifetime task. I’m not surprised your kitchen is the envy of the block — it’s gorgeous. Are you planning on repainting EVERYTHING right away?
Definition of irony: A woman who doesn’t like to cook, shop for groceries, or pretty much have anything to do with the food prep process in general (other than pretzles) has the kitchen that is the envy of the block. nuff said. 😀
I love all the closet space and the dual fireplace and the kitchen and the jack and jill bathroom and the potential of the basement and I wish I could have been a fly on the wall to share in the joy of the moment while everyone claimed the house…sssoooo much fun!!! Bet the pizza had never tasted so good.