Buying a House

The Campbell family is in the process of buying a new home. I am just tickled pink! It is the perfect compromise to our housing dilemma of what, where, or how to build. Phillip and I were fighting almost every day about the building of a house- we couldn't agree on anything! I never realized how different our decorating tastes are. He likes anything that screams "TESTOSTERONE", and I like everything simple but elegant. Just look at a Pottery Barn catalog, and you will see how I like to decorate; although, I have never even bought anything from Pottery Barn. I look through the catalog and find what I like, then I try to find something similar on eBay or something- tricksie, I am! Anyway, so there we were arguing back and forth about building a house, and my husband runs into a friend at the grocery store, who tells him that his in-laws old house was foreclosed on, and was now for sale. So we thought, what the heck, lets go look at it. We went to go see it, and I FELL IN LOVE! It is so perfect in so many ways. I loved the house for itself, and my husband loves it because it is about 1.5 miles from his parents. We are still working on the particulars of buying the house, so we don't yet have a closing date set. Hopefully it won't be too long before we move in!
The prospect of moving to a new home has me in FLY-ing mode! I have already been packing up some things I don't use very often, and I am accumulating things to have a nice big moving sale. (Because the junk is NOT going with us, one way or another!!) I was letting the de-cluttering get in the way of normal housework, but now I have everything under control again. It is so fabulous to have a shiny sink, no dirty dishes, dinner in the crock-pot, the laundry caught up, the bathrooms clean, and the rest of the house in ship-shape! Now, if only I can teach Fidelis his ABCs and 123s, my day will be complete! Maybe that's aiming too high.... well, my hubby should be very proud of me, anyway. He is really a very simple man- as long as the housework stays under control, he really doesn't ask for much else. Hopefully one of these days I will have housework down to a science.
On a similar note, I have been having the boys do chores every day. They are at the age right now that they actually want to help, so I let them, when I can. Fidelis' jobs have been folding washcloths (which he does perfectly, I might add), and emptying out the laundry hampers. Marcellus' job is to take a Clorox wipe and wipe the floor. I have also started making the boys wipe up any messes they make, and pick up all their toys.