tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34641717544630646632024-02-22T10:48:54.886-05:00Ellementary HomeElle @ Ellementary Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02721749081925095414noreply@blogger.comBlogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464171754463064663.post-25180036403344141382013-08-12T16:55:00.000-04:002013-08-12T17:45:02.603-04:00365 Project: Week Twenty-Two<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Memorial Day. I got this flag for Mr. E years ago and we've never been able to display it until now. </div>
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Let's just say that there's been a lot of peeing in the bushes this summer.</div>
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On Friday we packed up the kids and headed back to Virginia for a weekend stay. We arrived at the farm around dinnertime and of course I got out my camera.</div>
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Saturday Mr. E and I left the kiddos with my parents and went to a wedding in Washington, Virginia ("Little Washington"). The festivities were at the famous <a href="http://www.theinnatlittlewashington.com/">Inn</a>, and of course everything was amazing and over-the-top and completely perfect. Good friends, good food, good wine -- and a beautiful sunset over the mountains just as the dancing started under the stars on the outdoor dance floor. If only every Saturday could be so luxurious.</div>
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While in Virginia we got to experience <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_II">Brood II</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas">17-year cicadas</a> in full effect. The shrieking was unbelievable, and the sheer number of the bugs in the trees -- and dying on the ground -- was a bit gross. But overall it was neat to see. Crazy to think that the next time they come out, Dash will be 20!</div>
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Fun on the scooter. Tuck got it for his birthday last November, but he hadn't shown much interest in it until recently.</div>
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Haircuts on the back deck = nakedness. (Truthfully, it's all I can do to keep clothes on them in warm weather, haircuts or not.)</div>
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Sweet smile.</div>
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Our next-door neighbors have a son who's right between Dash and Tuck in age. He's a great playmate. We love the friendliness of our neighborhood. We have more contact with our neighbors here in a month than we did in a year in our old house.</div>
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New redbud leaves.</div>
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I got a my bling-y light fixture for our front hallway! It's the <a href="http://www.ballarddesigns.com/margeaux-ceiling-mount-chandelier/240358?redirect=y">Margeaux ceiling mount</a> from Ballard, and I'm delighted with it. </div>
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Dash working on a construction project on a Sunday afternoon.</div>
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Tuck's first day of potty training! (Note the beverage by his feet.) He did great. It is awesome not to be dealing with diapers anymore.</div>
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Dash outside.</div>
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Playing with the hose. Endless source of entertainment.</div>
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Dash helps with the lawn.</div>
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Azaleas in front of our house.</div>
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Sweet Tuck.</div>
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This looks like a lovely wildflower meadow, but it's just a big patch of weeds behind our house. Our backyard is just a rocky mountainside, and right now the landscaping there consists of a few shrubs planted long ago and whatever weeds have sprung up. It could be a lovely hillside garden, but it would take a ton of work and I'm not sure I have it in me at this point in my life.</div>
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Superhero Tuck stands watch at the front door. I *love* having a storm door. I keep the big door open all morning to let in the light.</div>
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Lilac -- one of the aforementioned shrubs on our hillside.</div>
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A foot race on the driveway. Tuck was just beginning to run back in May.</div>
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Watching Daddy leave for work in the morning.</div>
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Hostas! It's been so fun to see what's come up in our yard this spring. The small garden area right beside our front porch was totally barren when we moved in, and now it's packed full of these luscious green beauties.</div>
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This was a big day: We converted Dash's crib to a big-boy bed! He was almost three and a half so it was well past time, but he'd never tried to climb out and seemed happy with the crib so we dragged our feet. He was so proud, and he's done great with it.</div>
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April means my favorite flowers: grape hyacinths. I dug up some of the ones in our Virginia yard and brought them with us. They were originally wild ones from the farm and they smell so much better than the cultivated ones. I hope they survive in their new spot.</div>
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We had a whole lotta work done on our basement: new drains and sump pump. It was paid for by the sellers as part of our purchase, and we hope it'll keep things dry down there. But wow, what a muddy mess. This was the scene in my laundry room on day one.</div>
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Dogwood blossom in afternoon sunlight.</div>
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It's a tower of little boys!</div>
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Tuck-face in the bath.</div>
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We spent Saturday in Virginia at my cousin's wedding. My mom made the cake. Isn't it pretty?</div>
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On Sunday Mr. E broke in his new lawnmover!</div>
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Tuck in a bunny hat.</div>
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Little flowers on the hill behind our house.</div>
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Tuck exploring the yard. I think his outfit was chosen by his big brother.</div>
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A blooming orchid in honor of my father-in-law's birthday.</div>
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Dash running down a hill in our front yard. The boys are loving all the outside space to play. </div>
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The boys and I spent the afternoon exploring the hill behind our house. This is our neighbor's bamboo grove (iPhone photo).</div>
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Having some fun on the playground at the local elementary school (iPhone photo). </div>
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Mr. E had to take a big test on Saturday. Spoiler alert: He passed.</div>
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Signs of spring in the front yard. Spring was very late this year, but once it kicked off things got green very quickly.</div>
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MORE snow. I got up on Monday and went to NoVA for the closing on our Virginia house. I had to stop by the house first to pick up the mail and drop a couple of things off, so I was able to spend a little time walking through the empty rooms and saying goodbye. A few tears may have been shed.</div>
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On Tuesday I packed up the kids and we left my parents' house for West Virginia. It was a surprisingly emotional drive for me: sad because we were leaving Virginia and our life there, and happy because the four of us were finally going to be together again. Despite more snow (!) in the WV mountains, the drive went smoothly. It was fun to show the boys around their new home.</div>
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First breakfast in the new house. The boys learned their way around quickly, but there was a fair amount of "Mommy, where <i>are</i> you?" during those first few weeks.</div>
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They enjoyed rediscovering some lost toys that were found during the unpacking.</div>
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After just two days of unpacking, we hit the road again. Mr. E's dad had a big birthday, and we drove to Illinois for the festivities. I think we're somewhere in Kentucky here. (iPhone photo)</div>
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With Ah-Mah and Ah-Gong at the big party.</div>
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For over two years, I'd wanted to get a picture of the boys in their double stroller. I kept putting it off and putting it off, and I finally did it literally as the person I was selling the stroller to was on her way over to take the thing way. So here it is. Farewell, double stroller.</div>
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This was our last dinner in the old house. The packers were due to arrive the next morning. My brother and sister-in-law came over and we had pizza amidst the chaos -- oh, and finished off the wine in our fridge. Dash was feverish and clingy and I felt like I was being pulled in a million different directions, but looking back it feels like a special moment. And even though this picture seems random, it perfectly captures the evening for me. (I suppose I could have taken a shot of Dash throwing up all over the bathroom a few hours later, but let's stick with this.)</div>
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Packing day. After the crew arrived in the morning I had the kids say goodbye to the house and then I drove them down to my parents', where they were going to spend the next few days. To my surprise, by the time I got back to the house in the middle of the afternoon, the crew was finishing up. So in the midst of this crazy week, I had the unexpected gift of a long evening to myself. I took a shower, a nap (unheard-of luxury!), and had a relaxing takeout dinner. </div>
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The moving crew on Thursday was even faster than the packing crew had been. The house was empty by noon. Mr. E had come back late the previous night, and he and I cleaned up a bit, grabbed lunch, and headed to my parents' to drop off their car and spend a few minutes with the boys. Then he and I hit the road for Charleston. We actually passed the moving van with all our stuff on the highway that night!</div>
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Moving-in day in Charleston. Same boxes, different house. I supervised the unloading while Mr. E was at work. </div>
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Mr. E and I spent the day in Charleston setting up the boys' rooms, doing some basic unpacking, and waiting for our new washer and dryer to arrive. Meanwhile, back in Virginia, my dad took this picture of my mom and the boys. I<i> think </i>Dash is only fake-crying.</div>
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On Sunday I took the train from Charleston back to my parents' so I could be at the closing for our Virginia house on Monday. There were delays, so a trip that was supposed to take under eight hours took over ten (it would have been five in a car). It snowed much of the way, so it was a pretty trip. But I'm not the world's biggest fan of trains and I was beyond ready to be out of that one. I took this with my iPhone after I staggered off.</div>
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Aunt Em came for a visit to help me pack. Here she's working her magic on a chest of drawers with the "assistance" of the boys.</div>
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Another good-bye visit from a sweet friend. </div>
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Selection Sunday for March Madness (screenshot from my phone). We usually watch the selection show, but Mr. E had just spent the afternoon packing up our TV so I followed it on Twitter this year. This was the beginning our own March Madness -- moving week -- so I saw far less of the basketball tournament this year than usual.</div>
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The weatherman was calling for snow, so the boys and I headed to my parents'. They were about to begin a kitchen renovation and their new cabinets had just arrived. Tuck climbed right in to test them out.</div>
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The snow didn't disappoint: over six inches in March! I snapped this shot from my warm seat inside by the fire.</div>
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Tuck being able to eat baked milk has opened up a new world of snack possibilities. Goldfish!</div>
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On Sunday we met some friends at the National Air and Space Museum's <a href="http://airandspace.si.edu/udvarhazy/">Udvar-Hazy Center</a>. It's a great place for young kids to explore.</div>
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It got a little lonely just me and the boys, meal after meal. So I took them out to dinner a few times. Here we're having Italian. (iPhone photo)</div>
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A bunch of friends came over on Saturday to say goodbye. This cutie is the son of my best friend from college. </div>
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Dash inspects Bumblebee, a new favorite toy from his aunt.</div>
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Happy Tuesday!</div>
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Superheros are pretty much all the boys think about these days. Superheros and chocolate.</div>
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A little February citrus. I had a bunch of oranges around, so I made fresh-squeezed orange juice for the boys one morning, and Dash proceeded to ask for it for a week. Not a chance, kiddo.</div>
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Our old living room.</div>
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Great smile, bad photo quality. I swear, January and February are the roughest part of the 365 Project. If you can get through these months, you can sail through the rest of the year.</div>
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Intense Tinker Toy session with Grandpa.</div>
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Mr. E and I went to see the Washington Wizards play the Houston Rockets. Jeremy Lin was playing (he's number 7), and -- totally coincidentally I'm sure -- it was "Asian Heritage Night" at the arena. (iPhone photo)</div>
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This is actually the week with the Sunday photo that I'm keeping private. I corrected <a href="http://www.ellementaryhome.blogspot.com/2013/05/365-project-week-six.html">the previous post</a> and added another photo to it. I wish it were easier to see the dates of pictures you take on your iPhone. It would make my editing process easier. (Not waiting three months to start the editing process would also make it easier!)</div>
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Dash playing with Teddy Grahams at lunch. That table in front of the windows at our old house was so amazing for taking meal-time photos. </div>
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My birthday. My wedding rings in my "Lucky" bowl. Side note: Turns out it's really difficult to photograph diamonds. In most of the shots I took my diamond either looked like a supernova or wasn't sparkly at all.</div>
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Father and sons. Mr. E faithfully drove home EVERY weekend during the six weeks he was in Charleston without us. It's a six-hour drive, and it seemed to snow every single time he did it, but it was so nice to have him home.</div>
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My mom has been embroidering these wonderful flowers. This is just one example; I took a bunch of photos and will do a separate post on them eventually.</div>
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This is the fourth floor of our Virginia house, which I don't think I've ever showed on the blog. It's a loft space in the master bedroom that we used as an office. With a fireplace and skylights, it's a lovely space and it was a big selling point for us when we bought the house. I don't think we really used it as much as we intended, though, and it ended up being a big gathering place for clutter. It was nice to have it finally tidied up.</div>
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Tuck. I think this was the day we got a contract on our Virginia house. We'd learned the previous week that we'd gotten the West Virginia house we wanted, so things were definitely moving forward on the real estate front. Looking back, it feels like it all went so smoothly, but of course it felt anything but at the time.</div>
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Tuck as Superman. Mr. E left for West Virginia that evening because he needed to start his new job the next day. So this was the beginning of my single-parent-during-the-week period. </div>
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We've made the move to West Virginia. It's been about six weeks, and our new house is (mostly) unpacked. I'm starting to think about paint colors and where to hang pictures -- the fun stuff. <br />
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It's a little daunting to be so behind on editing and posting photos, but the good news is that through all the craziness I've been faithful about actually still taking a picture a day. Many of them have been with my iPhone, or just snapped in a rush, so I'm not going to claim that I've made great strides with my photography of late. But I'm so glad I've kept it up. It's kind of fun to go through these photos from the winter now and think about our hectic few months.<br />
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Our Virginia house was newly on the market this week. It was kind of a hassle to keep the house in ready-to-show condition, and it seemed like realtors would call every night <i>exactly</i> when I was starting to make dinner. This particular night we had a dinnertime showing, so we hit the mall (this was at the Lego store) to kill time and have dinner. (iPhone photo)</div>
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Our realtor hosted a lunch for other brokers at the house, so the boys and I were at my parents' for the day. Here they're having an afternoon snack of popcorn.</div>
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This was a big day. The boys both have had some relatively severe food allergies since they were babies. We spent the day at Hopkins while they had some "food challenges" -- basically testing the allergies in a controlled clinical environment. It went really well, and we were told that Tuck could start eating small amounts of milk, which was the best possible news. (iPhone photo)</div>
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Sunday there was an open house at our home, so we were at my parents'. We'd already received two serious offers at that point, and we spent much of the day going back-and-forth with our realtor over counteroffers and escalation clauses and the like. It was really comforting to know that the house was going to sell quickly and we were likely going to get a good price for it.</div>
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In preparation for putting our house on the market I decluttered a bit, which included taking some pictures down. That's a "modern Mona Lisa" print I've had for a while, and a sketch I got from Etsy.</div>
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Dash. I assume this was breakfast because he's wearing pajamas. Then again, you never know.</div>
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We got bad news when we met with our realtor in the morning: Someone had made an offer on our favorite-so-far house, the one we were planning to make an offer on if we didn't see anything better. After looking at a few more places, grinding our teeth, and generally despairing, we made an offer on the same house that afternoon. We didn't have a great feeling and we were annoyed to get getting into a bidding war, but we thought it was the best we could do under the circumstances. I took this shot of the front hallway while we were filling out paperwork for the offer. (Long story short: We ended up getting the house!)</div>
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You guys have already seen this picture, back when <a href="http://ellementaryhome.blogspot.com/2013/01/lets-move.html">I announced that we're moving</a>. As of when I'm posting this, Mr. E is living in temporary housing in Charleston while we wait for our real estate transactions to go forward. It's not a great solution. But he really needed to start his job, and the whole buying-and-selling process takes time. If all goes as planned, we'll close on our Charleston house in mid-March, and the boys and I will move out there soon after that.</div>
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Now that we're about to move, I've been inspired to photograph some of my favorite spots around the house. This is the landing on the staircase between our main floor and our bedrooms. </div>
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Tiffany box. My sister-in-law gave me some earrings for Christmas, and I exchanged them for a different color.</div>
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Dash's head is more in proportion with his body these days, but sometimes he still looks like a baby to me.</div>
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Mr. E and I spent his 35th birthday in Charleston, looking at houses. It was our first trip to the city. This is the view from our hotel room. We were exhausted from a day of house-hunting. Later that evening we went out to eat and drove around a bit more.</div>
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This is the dome of West Virginia statehouse. It's a stunningly beautiful building. I actually took this picture from a moving car as we left Charleston after another long day of house-hunting. We got on the road at 6pm, which made for a long and tiring drive back home.</div>
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I spent the first day of the year taking down the Christmas tree. Every year I love handling my ornaments, wrapping them up and putting them away for another year. This time was a little bit more emotional than usual because the next time I get them out we'll be in a new house. These are some of my favorites; they're from Sur la Table.<br />
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Mr. E's parents arrived in town for a post-holiday visit.<br />
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Cooking with Ah-Mah. My mother-in-law is an excellent cook and the kids love the food she makes for them.</div>
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Happy birthday, Tuck! My baby is two.</div>
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Ah-Gong loves to fix broken things and has incredible patience. Here he's working on a wooden puppet that had come unstrung.</div>
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Ellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01813611652176896567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464171754463064663.post-84504258377383742702013-02-04T07:55:00.000-05:002013-02-04T07:55:00.480-05:00Our New House<br />
It's been a crazy couple of weeks around here, real estate wise. But I'm happy to report that we have two contracts, one to buy and one to sell.<br />
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Today I'm sharing pictures of the house we're buying in West Virginia. It's in the South Hills area of Charleston, which is just across the river from downtown. Mr. E will have a ten-minute commute to his office, which will be a lovely change. <br />
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The house is basically a center-hall Colonial, although "Colonial" is perhaps too charitable a word to describe the exterior. (I'm not showing the exterior here, but imagine a bad late-70s Colonial adaptation with too-small windows and some poorly advised columns.)<br />
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Here's the view just inside the front door: <br />
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And here's the living room, which is just off the hall to the right:<br />
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This is the view from the living room into the dining room:<br />
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The dining room is the room I'm most excited about because I'm going to use it as an office. We wouldn't use a formal dining room very often, and we don't even own a dining room table. But an office? A place for my desk, my laptop, our family paperwork -- adjacent to both the living room AND the kitchen? A place for me to sort the mail, to work on my grocery list, to wrap presents and pay bills? Sign. Me. Up. That's a room I'll use every day. </div>
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And of course it'll have to be super-cute, since I'll be spending so much time there. Right now I'm thinking I'll paint it a deep blue, but I'll probably change my mind five times before I buy the paint. Either way, I'm definitely on the lookout for some bold and beautiful fabric for a new window treatment.</div>
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More <strike>dining room</strike> office, looking into the living room and kitchen:<br />
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From the office into the kitchen:<br />
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The kitchen: <br />
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It's a very open L-shaped kitchen. Here are the views from the kitchen into the eating area (left), and from the family room back into the eating area and kitchen (right). (That door in the back of the left-hand picture leads to the garage.)<br />
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Since the house is thirty-five years old, I'm thinking a wall or two must have come down at some point to create all that modern openness. <br />
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The countertops are Corian or something similar. The cabinets aren't in the greatest shape, but they'll do. I'd love to paint the lower ones blue-gray, like this:<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Can you see it? <span style="font-size: small;">I<span style="font-size: small;">n a perfect world I'd knock those soffits down<span style="font-size: small;"> and install new cabinets and<span style="font-size: small;"> crown molding </span>all the way up to the ceiling</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">. And of course<span style="font-size: small;">,</span> new stainless-steel appliances. <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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Moving on, this is the family room, viewed from the eating area. The kids' toys will go here, along with our happy orange rug. The brick fireplace isn't bad, but I'll have to paint the room a color that doesn't fight it. The yellow isn't working for me. In the back left corner of the room is a doorway to the foyer and stairs.<br />
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And this is the view from the kitchen back down the center hallway to the front door. I'm picturing a pretty runner on the floor and a flush-mount crystal light fixture on the ceiling. That coat closet on the left has been turned into a pantry, but I may try to reclaim it for coats.<br />
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Here's the master bedroom: <br />
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A walk-in closet will be a welcome change. But we'll have to do something about that bare light bulb: <br />
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This is the kids'/guests' bathroom. The green plaid wallpaper is actually in good shape and looks like it was professionally hung. It might stay. After all, emerald is <a href="http://www.pantone.com/pages/index.aspx?pg=21055">the color of the year.</a> <br />
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Oh, and the water was turned off when these photos were taken, which is why the toilet's all taped up like a freaky crime scene.<br />
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Two of the three non-master bedrooms are quite large. Dash and Tuck will each have their own initially, and one will be a guest room. If we have a third child -- and I'm not saying that project's in the works, but we haven't ruled it out -- we'll put the boys in the same room and give the baby a nursery.<br />
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The upstairs windows are weirdly short. The kids won't even be able to see out of them without standing on chairs. On the plus side, it'll make furniture placement a snap, since pretty much any piece of furniture will be able to go on any wall.<br />
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Thanks to the two windows, it's a nice bright space, with fuss-free laminate floors and plenty of room to play. <br />
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The basement also has a potential fifth bedroom. I'm not sure what we'll do with it. It'll get new carpet and a new paint color, that's for sure. Yellow-green is possibly my least favorite color in the world, so that's got to go.<br />
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Unfortunately, there isn't much of a back yard beyond the deck. Probably the biggest surprise about house-hunting in West Virginia was how hilly most of the lots are. I probably shouldn't have been so shocked about that, but when I heard that Charleston was in the Kanawah Valley, I pictured basic flatness, with maybe some rolling hills. But yeah, it's still pretty mountainous. ("West Virginia: Even our valleys have mountains.")<br />
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We looked at a ton of houses with back yards that sloped dramatically down into steep ravines, so you could hurl yourself off your deck to your death if you wanted. Maybe it's silly, but part of me felt like I wouldn't be able to sleep at night, worrying that our house was going to slide backwards down the mountain. <br />
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The house we ended up with has a somewhat flat (though small) front yard and a flat side yard, with a slope UP in the back. And that feels better, somehow. At least I'll be able to let the kids play outside without worrying that they'll roll down a hill and never be heard from again.<br />
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So that's our new place. We'll be there in about a month. I can't wait to settle in and start changing some things!Ellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01813611652176896567noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3464171754463064663.post-72455808536204828672013-02-01T07:35:00.000-05:002013-02-02T14:07:47.754-05:00365 Project: Week Fifty-Two<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It snowed on Christmas Eve at the farm. Just a big flurry, but it was really magical to go outside with the boys and share their wonder and excitement.</div>
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Christmas Day. I took a bunch of photos, but somehow this one captured the day best: blurry and colorful and festive.</div>
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Tuck pours tea with my parents' pewter tea set.</div>
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Aunt K gave the boys more train track for their Thomas trains, and Mr E lost no time building them a grand layout after we got home.</div>
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More of the boys' Christmas loot. I was trying to make it look like the dinosaur was riding the dragon, but <br />
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Mr E got me a new iPhone for Christmas, and my sparkly champagne-gold
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My parents visited on New Year's Eve, and we told them about our decision to move to West Virginia. It was a bittersweet day, and this is a bittersweet picture: Our house, decorated with our Christmas lights for the last time.<br />
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That's it: My first 365 Project. It was a great experience, both for photography-learning and memory-keeping. I'm already doing another one.</div>
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Reindeer fun.<br />
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Heart-shaped bokeh! I had such fun with this. I tried to get the kids
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The kids and I turned ice-cream cones into Christmas trees with icing and sprinkles. I love this picture because they're both licking their fingers. There was a LOT of that.</div>
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Our Christmas tree creations. Can you tell which one's mine?</div>
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Reading a story with Daddy while we waited for Dash to wake up from his nap. That night we went out for burgers and fries, and then drove around looking at the Christmas lights.</div>
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Auntie Em arrived late Saturday night. We all spent a fun morning wrapping presents before heading down to my parents' for the Christmas festivities.</div>
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