What I Did During My Internet Vacation

Oh, it’s good to be back!

Life has been, shall we say, hectic for the last several months. There was a lot of traveling, working a substitute job at the local girl’s school, anxiety, and now, at the beginning of 2012 we three find ourselves the possessors of a house.

We moved in yesterday.

Let me explain what this is like for me using pictures. In the last year we have gone from this:

(Note the bizarre Baba Yaga chicken feet stilts.)

to this:

(This is Sandringham House, not Chez Cubbedge.)

Do you see?

Now, the house we had between Baba Yaga’s place and Her Majesty’s was not a bad little place. It was the answer to prayer and was just right for the last year. Unfortunately, our good neighbors moved out and bad neighbors moved in. There was a lot of yelling. And a lot of people visiting for long weekends in a 600 square foot apartment that was too small for our family of three.  Six hundred square feet, a kitchen roughly large enough to swing a cat if you didn’t mind grievously injuring said cat, a very active three and a half year old and no yard is not a recipe for tranquility. I’m not sure why we got this beautiful place, but today’s adventure of watching my daughter go from being afraid of the great big back yard to running and jumping into the piles of leaves as Will and I raked them was surely a special blessing.

About the new house. It’s a 1950s ranch style house, with three bedrooms, a sunroom and a very nifty retro Mullins kitchen. The paint needs work. It has a beautiful, if rather neglected, garden, and I am itching to pull weeds. The neighborhood is very close to downtown, close to the local JCC and pool, and close to a lovely little restaurant and shopping area. It’s really, really lovely. I’m day dreaming about opening up the house for potluck dinners and evening prayer, or a rosary group for moms of little ones, and about growing a vegetable garden. It’s my own little piece of land to cultivate. I’m excited!

And so, my benighted blog is up and running once again. That’s pretty exciting, too.

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