First Month

Our first month in our new house has flown by... mainly because we haven't been here all that much. Last weekend was our first weekend here, and we enjoyed working on projects and unpacking more and cleaning and organizing.

My mother passed away the week we moved into the house, and so that has taken up much of our energy this month, as we have spent time down south to help plan her funeral and take care of business. It's been quite the roller coaster - I wrote about my mother elsewhere, though, and probably won't write much here. She was a wonderful woman and I am proud to be her daughter. She also lived a long and full life, and eased out gracefully, so while the final goodbye is always sharper than expected, it isn't as painful.

I still feel like I'm in recovery, though.

Spring has started to show up here - some daffodils showing their yellow heads, and some other invisible denizens of spring are killing my allergies! The emotional roller coaster, all the changes, the work, and the cherry on top (almost literally, with how much I have to blow my nose - ha) of the allergies are all taking their toll and I would rather be eating bon bons in bed watching some sappy movie than fixing up the house sometimes.

Our lawn is not looking too great - are we supposed to water it or something? ha. I put a sprinkler out the other day and forgot it so we have a well soaked yellowing lawn now. The pride of the neighborhood, I'm sure!

So much to do - we'll get it figured out eventually.

I realized recently, though, that this is the first time in adulthood where I've lived in a house with a yard, and also a garage, and also one that has mail delivery - every day the mail fairies come right to our house and deliver mail and take it away if we want to mail something! Imagine!! And don't get me started on the trash fairies!

What a world!