Why I haven't been blogging: Last Friday, we met with my wonderful Realtor friend, who tells us the market for our size house starts now and runs to early June, then dies down for the summer and picks up a bit in the fall. Eeek. We are not ready to put our place on the market. And we're especially not ready if we update our kitchen as she is strongly reccomending we do, so that the house will sell quickly and for a decent price.
Our to-do list now looks like this:
replace bathroom lights
replace bathtub and sink fixtures
paint the upstairs and exterior
carpet the upstairs
replace bathroom flooring
put a hearth on the fireplace
refinish the kitchen cabinets
replace the flourescent light in the kitchen
get granite countertops and a new sink
spruce up the yard
declutter, declutter, declutter
And you know what, I'm sure we'll end up doing all that. We can fritter away endless weeks and months puttering around with the kids, doing nothing on the house or yard. But light a fire under us, and we get really productive, really fast. Steve's already replaced the bathroom lights and repainted a medicine cabinet. The carpet's ordered and the house was measured today. The painters arrive tomorrow for estimates. The guy who replaced our first tub comes on Tuesday. We've got the stain picked out for the kitchen cabinets and a marble installer chosen, but we need to go order marble, armed with a plank from the flooring and a stained cabinet door for color matching.
So, I'm thinking, piece o' cake. We'll have it listed by mid May. (But I think I saw Steve breathing into a paper bag the other day...) We still need to make a family trip to CO, but I figure the best time to do that will be while the marble guys are working on the kitchen, or perhaps the first weekend we list.
All this is just an elaborate excuse for why I won't be blogging much these next few weeks. (But Maddie just got a cute new haircut with bangs, and I really should post a picture. And there are requests for snail sanctuary pics, and, and...)
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gotta see Maddie's hair!
wow! y'all are movin' on! wtg mates! that's a lot of stuff to get listed by mid-may...keep those paper bags handy! (grin) havin' a kitchen under construction will add extra fun into the mix...yikes...what an under taking! the cool thang with the buddhist realtor is head shakin' funky and sounds "meant-to-be. " whoduhthunkit? when you get to the packin' up...i'm comin' out to help you...i mean it....i owe you big! (one of my favorite memories is steve playing that da@* piano out in the front yard after everyone nearly busted a gut hauling it out the front door and down the steps!) so i'm sending good, calm, happy do-it-yersef thoughts...gimmee a call (i ran over...i'm not kidding....my phone...what are the odds that you would drop your phone...AND then run over it? sigh) so...i have no one's phone numbers...and the lovely soft covered phone book with wegman' pups honey ate...my fault, i left it on the bed and it's covered cardboard...her favorite....sigh...much love...yer pal in texas...lw
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