Home Sweet Home

I know that I have a readership because I receive comments but I also receive emails and phone calls about the blog. I thank everyone for their interest and for helping to motivate me to keep up with this journal. I think it will be a great record of our time here.

Some of you have asked what our house looks like. Here's a shot of the front, taken from in the street. We have a mudroom with a backdoor that connects the garage with the main house. The large picture window is in the living room...just behind IEM's yew is the dining room. We worried that we were actually losing square footage from our Memphis house...and that is saying a lot. But we gained a garage, a mudroom, a huge basement with a PLAYROOM and a LAUNDRY ROOM plus two huge storage rooms. The only thing we "lost," maybe, was a larger dining room??? Not missing it. I could make a list of things we would be doing to the house if we had purchased it so I'm glad to be free of that responsibility. Believe it or not, we have cut back the front shrubs...they were insanely huge. We've done what we can with the manual shears; time for the electric.

Downstairs, we have a living room, dining room, eat-in kitchen, bathroom and two bedrooms. The kids occupy those. Upstairs we have a sitting room (we use it as the office), a bedroom and a half bath. The bedroom upstairs is much larger than our Memphis one. We don't have a lot of dressers in the house but the closets are plentiful and we're making due. Zack and I have built in dressers in our room. I think we are pretty much settled in.

The other photo is looking down our street to the south. The greenspace you may be able to see at the end of the block is our park. How cool is that??? Today, though, I took the kids to a different park. There was a huge rock-climbing wall thingee there. IEM is usually not one for heights but he scaled it five times. Then you-know-who was ready to try, and I decided to call it a day.

Off to help Zack plan his KWF dinner for 30. Wish him luck as our babysitter has to go to a wedding in NYC and is leaving the day of the dinner...still trying to find another sitter.

Thanks for stopping by.