Packing and moving.

The past couple of days have been BUSY.

We have been packing the house from top to bottom. We have our own things to move plus John's mom and grandmother. A lot of work.

We also picked out appliances.. a stove and refrigerator. I never knew it was so stressful to pick out appliances. It took me like 2 hours of going back and forth from stoves to fridges, fridges to stoves to get the ones I finally decided on. John was there too, but he wanted to get the cheapest ones possible. We ended up with black stove and refrigerator.. side by side fridge! I can't wait to get them into the house.

We have also been shopping in thrift stores quite a bit. There is a really decent one close to us in Jenison.. it has mostly furniture. We ended up getting a dining room table and chairs, a chair for John's gram, and some stools for a little bar type area in the dining room. We also got a couch for our niece, Heather. The couch is NICE.. and was only $40. We are excited we found this place.. we will be going back there for sure.

My parents came to see the house.. they seemed to like it. Everyone.. including them.. keeps saying.. "oh, it's nice for your first house..". Uhh.. it's nice ANYWAY. We don't plan to move anytime soon. With the trouble it took us to get into this house, I can't imagine doing it again in my lifetime.

John and I are both working for the next 5 days.. then we have the week off next week to get the move done.

The realtor just called me today too.. to see how things are going for us and to thank us. I was actually planning to email her today because we are supposed to get a survey done of the perimeters of the lot size at the house.. and we have not yet gotten that. She is going to check on it.

So far, things are going well.