Oh my dosh

We have a cute two year old neighbor friend who, instead of exclaiming oh my gosh, says, OH MY DOSH OH MY DOSH.

Which is my way of saying wow I have been away from this blog for so long & am looking forward to getting back into this creative outlet. 

Since posting last we have: sold our house, moved into an apartment, started (this morning!) 4th & 1st grade, and generally tried to keep up with life, as it hurtles along.

Why did we sell our house? Well, for one thing, the neighborhood we lived in got very popular. We always had a sale in the back of our minds, but hated to pull the trigger because we love, love, love the neighbors/hood, house, lot, my babies were raised there waaaaaah. We'd also sort of "finished" what we planned to do with the house. Of course you can always continue to add/subtract, but the biggies we set out to do were done: kitchen, added bath, new roof, lots of out door hard & soft scaping and so forth.

Still, it was challenging. A few days after the sale June told me she wished "you hadn't signed those papers," referring to closing. Ouch. But we keep emphasizing the positive - a new house to fix up as we wish, living in an apartment is sort of vacation-fun (June keeps calling this our hotel) & in general, moving forward is nearly always preferable to feeling stale.

My dearest, biggest, hopeful wish is to find another beautiful-bones house & chronicle the fixing up here on GDI. I'm so grateful I've got this space to refer back to on both Fairview (kitchen & moving-in pictures) & Marling. 

With that, I will leave you with something totally unrelated, but fun. How cute is this Emerson Fry Bardot Top? It looks perfect for summer-to-fall weather. 

Happy first week of school for all of my Columbia friends :)

PS - whoops! Mother of year award! I'll post kiddos first day pictures tomorrow. 

Comments

[Nancy]

I'm having troubling getting past 4th & 1t grade. But this: elementary school years are the very best years. Not the pre-school years. Not the adolescent years. But those elementary school years. Wistful.

[Hope]

Nancy - I KNOW. Raising kids is one long heartbreak.

AND I totally remember this comment from you, years ago. It might've even been pre-kids. I think of it often. Nancy Words, often <3