One Week from House Closing Day!

 I hope this post finds everyone in good spirits!  I am wrapping presents today and playing some Christmas Carols.  I need to get a little more Christmas spirit going on in here.  

One week from today I close on my new home.  I am excited but also a little nervous.  This will be the second house I have bought alone.  It is just a little nervewracking for me.  I guess that is to be expected.  It also brings up the fact that this is not the course I thought I would be taking right now, but it is what it is.  I am getting very excited to be out of my apartment and in a home again.  I want to paint, decorate and enjoy having a home again to love and take care of.  Over the weekend I went to Pike's Nursery to spend some of the Christmas money my Mom gave me.  I bought a Lenten Rose for the new house.  I also bought myself a new Christmas Cactus, lemon thyme, and a cyclamen.  I think I'm giving the cyclamen to my sister, Sue for Christmas though.  I bought a beautiful pottery pot to put it in and that would be a perfect gift for her.  I also bought her a mug that says JOY on it and some tea.  

The movers come on the 20th to move me from the apartment to my new home.  After the closing on the 18th, I'm going to take some boxes, my clothes, small pieces of furniture over to the new house.  I will also do that on the 19th and get my kitchen all set up.  My realtor said she hopes the refrigerator will be delivered to the new house in time.  The builder waited to the last minute to order it.  If not, I will just use my big cooler with ice until it is delivered.  I can keep things in the apartment freezer until it comes in, I have the apartment until the 30th.  I have all the furniture I need except for a coffee table.  I am thinking about building my own.  Just a simple one, but I am more than capable of doing that.  I have also been looking on FB Marketplace.  I might go down to the antique mall in Concord and look there also.  I'm going with a farmhouse/country theme in the new house.  Pretty much what I have been doing all along.  

I was able to have lunch and visit with Mason, Scott's son yesterday.  We got through lunch without mentioning his father.  Then we came back to the apartment.  Mason told me some things about his Dad, we both got upset and cried.  I just hope Scott keeps getting the help he needs.  It is a shame that things turned out the way they did, but I guess as they say that is life.  Mason told me his father will let me come over to the house after Christmas and get my patio furniture, my gas grill, step ladder, rototiller, gardening things, painting things, circular saw and sanding equipment.  I was so afraid I was going to have to fight for my things.  Mason is going to load up his truck after Christmas and bring them to my house.  He is such a good young man.  I'm glad we are going to stay in touch.  

Well I'm off to wrap and pack!  I hope I don't need to get more boxes.  I'm hoping to get by with what I have.  Everyone have a wonderful day!  Stay warm and enjoy the sunshine if that is what you have in your area!

Sherri