Nesting

My deepest apologies for my blogging absence.  I wrote this post last weekend and meant to have photos by now and don't, so I'm posting without them.  Enjoy anyway and continue anxiously awaiting photos of our slowly-but-surely-coming-together home :-)

We returned from our Thanksgiving vacay late Friday night and hit the ground running on Saturday with our nesting now that we have the rest of our boxes.  Both Shane and I felt 50% dread (soooo much work to be done) and 50% excitement (to finally have a home!).

First on the list was ridding ourselves of the surprisingly large amount of excess furniture.  Our first thoughts went to our friends Kennedy and Dan (fresh off the boat from the UK!) -- we were delighted for them to take a couch, 2 arm chairs, a set of outdoor furniture, and some dishes.  For the rest of the furniture, we decided that the value (in terms of our sanity) of getting it all out ASAP outweighed the potential small revenue we could make if we tried to sell everything one by one, so we put out an ad on the "Free" section of Craigslist and immediately got a bite!  A very sweet and very needy woman named Hannah was furnishing both her and her brother's houses so she took a recliner, a coffee table, an arm chair, and a side table.

The highlight of our Saturday (aside from the joy of having a usable living room) was definitely Kennedy and Dan.  Not only were we so thankful that they took that extra furniture off of our hands (literally we had couches stacked on top of couches), but they also came to the rescue with their thanksgiving leftovers for lunch (perfect since we had been out of town and had zero groceries!) plus they helped us move around the rest of our furniture (so much heavy lifting!!).  Our productivity on Saturday was double what we had thought it would be, all because of their help.  We're truly blessed to have such wonderful friends so close....