March in Review

What a big month for us!

March started out with a big "last call for winter" snowstorm on the day of our closing of our FIRST HOUSE - March 3rd.  So we actually didn't end up closing until March 4th.

Insert happy first-time homebuyer family picture in front of new home.  Oh right, didn't get to that one because of the FOOT of snow.  Well, eight inches or so, but who's counting.  They never even put that cool "sold" sign below the realtor sign in our yard.  But who needs a cheesy picture.

Speaking of pictures, I don't really have many.  I'm waiting for my house to not be embarrassing before I take pictures.  Don't hold your breath, people.

Seriously, though, I love our house.  And another seriously: we have the best…mothers…ever.  I really don't know how we would have survived this whole house buying/moving thing without our moms.  Between the snow, the three young, needy children, and B's being in the middle of his last (insert massive WHOO-HOOs from tired mom) master's course, I really don't think we could have managed a bit without Grandma Mary Ann and Grandma Pat.  Seriously, we need to clone these ladies.  B and I lucked out having the best mothers-in-law in the world.  We never complain about each others mom.  When does THAT happen?!

So yeah, close on the house on Tuesday (this pushed back our whole plan, and our plans are never pretty anyways).  Grandma Pat (my mom) goes to town with the painting.

Lets be honest: Phaedra is NOT a home decorator.  I'm like the polar opposite of my big sister (props to Heather here) who can seriously get a house and have the whole thing painted and decorated in an amazingly put-together and feng-shui sort of way, and I'm the kind of person who (if they even make it on the wall) has pictures of my kids hanging there that are 4 years old.  Poor 3-year-old Liam who has no pictures on the wall.  And painting?  *hysterical laughter*   *dead pan face*  Yeah right.

But my mom, angel she is, will have none of that.  We pick out beautiful colors for the living room, dining room, and master bedroom.  And she does it, despite having some major back issues while she's here.  Meanwhile, Grandma Mary Ann (B's mom), is the packing/unpacking/juggling kids/cleaning up the old house (my hero) queen.  Not only that, we got curtains up (I say we, I just provided some occasional manual labor).  Me!  Curtains!  Can you believe it?!  (If you know me well and have spent any longer than 5 minutes in my house, you probably can't)

My thing is having a mostly clean and relatively decluttered house while juggling kids.  You rarely see a dirty dish in the kitchen.  Can't stand them.  But curtains?  Paint?  Wow!  This is the kind of thing I love and appreciate in other people's houses, but have never figured out how to do in my own.

My goal this week is to post some pictures.  I have more March news (nothing terribly exciting), but since I've been attempting to write this post for about 3 weeks, I'd better just post it and add when I can.  Otherwise it will sit in my "drafts" for another month.  I really should have made a lenten promise to blog once a week, lol.

God bless!