Finished project..posting a little late

Finished lighthouse embroidered towels.

Decorations for the baby's room

These were 'masks' that had broken off at the bottom so I repurposed them for wall hangings. I had the paint already, and so far I just used some clear packing tape to secure the eyes until I can come up with another solution... so: Total Cost $1.00

Packing.. or not...

Turns out, we don't have to pack at all! Yeah! Granted our clothes are in suitcases and we'll pack up a few of our more personal items (eh hm) and jewelry, photos, and tuck those in the truck, but beyond that, we just have to stay out of the way, woohoo!

Aureeggh!

If I drop one more thing and have to bend over to pick it up! I'm going to scream!

Home visits...

Saturday we're going to drive down to look at houses. After our lamaze classes, so basically we'll drive down, stay in a hotel, get up and patter about for a while and then look at homes in one state. Then we'll drive to the other state, check into another hotel, and then be up bright and early to look at homes all day and then drive home. I think that's how it will go. It's going to be an exhausting weekend/beginning of the week.

Tomorrow we have movers coming to check out the apartment and see what they think it will take to pack us up and move us. We found out that they are planning on packing us, so we dont have to go get boxes or anything. I'm going to double check that when they get here. In the meantime, I'm going to have to clean up. Because Friday, there's an inspector coming in to make sure our apartment is up to code (yeah right!) I suppose it will pass, but anyway, that's what's going on around here.

Finding a house...

FINALLY! Realtors are getting back to us.
Now tell me, since I'm clueless--how long did it take you to figure out you were in love with a house you saw, what pitfalls should we be looking for, what questions should we ask? Did you call in reinforcements with more experience to make sure that you weren't getting the shifty from your realtor? I honestly have NO IDEA what to look for other than 'meets my needs' or 'doesn't meet my needs' you know?

We're making a spreadsheet to compare houses to decide if we want to look at them and/or what we think of them once we look at them.

And how long did it take you to close on your house? We have less than 3 weeks and I'm afraid we'll be so caught up in just buying a place that we might choose the wrong one because we're so pressed for time.

The Great Onion experiment...

Well, so far the onion experiment seems to have worked. This is what I did. I took the onions, ran them through the food processor until finely chopped. Then I loaded the results into ice cube trays, covered them with plastic wrap and stuck them in the freezer. Several hours later, I went back and 'uncubed' them. Some went into a plastic freezer bag and some into a plastic container. Either way, I used a freshly frozen cube in my green beans tonight and they were perfect. I've frozen them in huge blocks before, but then you always had to saw off or chip off what you wanted and sometimes that was difficult. But with the cubes, you just pick up however many you want and drop them into what you're cooking and voila! No tears, no extra mess or fuss-and no rotten onions forgotten in the bottom of the bin. You get a bunch all done at once and for a while you have easily usable onions, kept well in the freezer.