We’re Moving!

Yes, I realize many of you already know this. But I thought I’d just (loudly) announce it “officially.” I feel like this whole process had been “hush-hush,” then talked about with those “in the know,” and now, finally we can ACTUALLY talk about it (a.k.a. put it on Facebook).

We just spent the ENTIRE weekend doing indoor and outdoor projects, and today I’m doing MAJOR housecleaning in preparation for our realtors. We have one coming today and one tomorrow–pray we can get the house listed by this weekend!

I’ve tried to explain to many of you about East Aurora, NY, using local examples (similar to the Oakwood community here) and lots of description (rural, older homes, cooler temps), but I realized, thanks to the World Wide Web, I could just point you in the right direction for more information!

So, if you’re so inclined, visit the below links to see a bit of where we’ll be moving.

East Aurora Village Website

East Aurora, NY – Wikipedia

NYT Article about East Aurora and The Roycroft

We’re both really excited about the move, but overwhelmed with everything that has to be done before we can actually leave and sad to leave our “family” of friends here. If we seem frazzled all the time, it’s because we’re trying to sell our house and fit in TONS of hanging-out time with all our friends before we leave!

What a workday!

I posted a couple of days ago about how cluttered and messy our house has been lately. Well, today we decided to do something about it.

Andrew finished up the last bits of our bathroom tiling project.

I cleaned up the guest bathroom and put it back the way it’s supposed to be.

I got up on the ladder to dust the shelves in our entryway. Andrew had to do the higher one–I was terrified!

Check out that bedhead and little sprout ponytail!

We cleaned out the garage last night, which included a “mopping.” It needed it, I promise. I had to give it another rinse this morning because the soapy/scummy water dried like broom strokes.

You can see the mulch we had delivered a couple days ago. My friend, Emily, helped me do the front beds. The weather’s been pretty yucky, so we’re on hold until we can get to the back yard.

One of the things I wanted to do today was clean the grime off the yellowed window frames next to our front door. Hi Hadrian!

After I finished cleaning the windows, Andrew decided we should just spray paint the window frames so they weren’t yellow anymore. I’m glad we did–they look great!

My friend, Jen, came over unexpectedly and helped me touch-up some spots around the house. Thanks Jen!

Andrew put up some drywall in our basement–it’s been bare since we moved in!

We’ve really cleaned up the basement (with a lot of Jen’s help)!

Up next: Andrew’s tool area…pray for us!

Help! I need my life back…

I’ll just go ahead and say it: I’m a neat freak/control freak/clutter-phobe. If you’ve known me for any length of time, you know this is true.

We’re in the process of tiling our master bathroom floor (something we should have done when we moved in THREE YEARS ago), as well as trying to get our house ready to list with a realtor. Translation: I’ve started boxing random things up, neglected cleaning ANYTHING (because I’ll just have to clean it all over again when we take the listing photos) and the tiling project has somehow spilled into all the other rooms in the house.

So, for those of you who swear my house is ALWAYS clean, here you go:

Kitchen–I can’t live like this much longer…

Don’t miss the TWO vacuums in the photo… Not that I’ve been using them or anything.

Guest bath–we’ve moved in during the tiling project, but not very neatly

Notice the master toilet in the lower left of the photo–makes using the bathroom and getting in and out of the shower interesting…

Office–who am I kidding? It’s never been clean…

For once, I would just like an organized office! I would swear up and down that it’s all Andrew’s fault, but I’m as much to blame as he is. We never “use” the office, so we just throw things in there and when we can’t see the floor anymore, we eventually clean it up. This is AFTER I did that and didn’t know what to do with the rest of this stuff… Moving on…

Master Bedroom–it’s seen the brunt of the damage from the project

I’m embarrassed to admit it’s been like this for more than a week. The piles just keep getting bigger…

My half of the bedroom–it’s just as messy!

And finally, the actual bathroom…

Unfortunately, you can barely see the tile for the mess. But, it was the right color (beige) and the right price (58 cents/sq. ft.)! Thankfully, Andrew is a fantastic tiler. He’s already said he’s buying his own tile saw for the next project…here’s to praying there won’t BE a next project. At least not any time soon.

Pray for me… I think my deadline to get ALL of this cleaned up is Saturday!