Blogger Break

Wow--it has been a while since I blogged.  Over a month to be exact--well, to be exact, over a month and a few days.  But, I do have an excuse. I was busy--and when I say busy I mean buying a house busy.  Yes, remember when I said we were looking at houses, and then I said we were staying put, and then we decided to just look, and then we found a house we love, and then we bought it, and then we now have to sell our house.  So yes, all of that in one month, which is why I have not blogged.  I have been busy getting my house ready to sell and while I can't wait to move and I really, really hope that we sell ours so that we can move to our forever home, moving is also a little bittersweet.  This is the house that I moved into with my boyfriend, got my dogs, got married, had one kid, had two kids, went from working to staying home and WORKING!!!!  This house has a lot of memories for me and I have loved it, but it is time to move on.

But before moving on, I will share my one memory of this house that stands out the most for me.  It was the day I came home from the hospital after having Kiley.  Now, as most know, my girls were both preemies which meant they didn't come home with me.  Not something that you really envision when you think of bringing your baby home from the hospital. Yes, she was healthy and I was grateful for that, but I was also really sad that she didn't get to come home with me when I came home.  So I remember distinctly coming home from the hospital, without my baby, and feeling so sad.  I had just had a c-section so I really wasn't feeling great and wasn't supposed to do stairs, but I remember coming home getting up the stairs and just sitting on the couch in the family room--and I started crying.  Of course, things were good in life.  Kiley was healthy, I was healthy, family was good, but I wanted my baby home with me.  The one thing that really sticks out though is sitting on the couch, crying, with my husband and dogs beside me.  You  never know what a house is going to bring you.  This house brought me my family.  I am really grateful for this house and I know that it will bring someone else some pretty profound memories-so hopefully we will be able to sell it and I can make new memories in a new house.  But until then, here we are, on a Friday night, watching tv in the comforts of our home with my two babies fast asleep, and my two other babies (dogs) asleep on the couch.  People may say my kitchen is too small or the master bath doesn't have two vanities but it's been good to me. 

Hopefully now that we are on the market and things are ready to go, I will have more time to blog again.  I have though become a master cleaner--one of these days I will share some favorite cleaning tools (oh don't you go getting too excited!)