Can you believe it - we have lived here for eleven months. Eleven months since we packed up our belongings and pets, taking the 5 day drive clear across the country from Pennsylvania to Oregon to arrive here. Rather fittingly it is once again unseasonably warm just as it was the day we arrived. The difference is that the windows are no longer painted shut and the house doesn't reek of cat pee. The house is not recognizable at all from when we first arrived. The airconditioner is cooling, I'm looking out a wall of windows to my garden benches, it is lovely. It's about 85% done at this point, David is working hard on the Astoria house and after that goes on the market will finish this up. And most of what needs to be finished is cosmetic, spackling here, painting there. I stripped the oak inserts in the kitchen and hallways a couple of weeks ago, David wants to see if he can get them a bit further along before I stain them.
The state remains locked down, we still video chat with the granddaughters which can be hard, they always ask to come to NanaPoppop house and it's hard to tell them no. But Washington is starting to reopen in phases so we should be able to see them by this summer. And the good thing is because I can't go anywhere I'll have over 2 weeks of vacation saved. We see Kim and Steve every weekend observing social distancing, annoying but necessary. And I have to say it has been so wonderful to celebrate birthdays and holidays with friends and family, Kim has always been a sister to me - now I see her every week!
Other than work and the weekly visit we are home. David and I read quite a bit, thank goodness for our ereaders or we'd be peeking at each other over stacks of books. For David's birthday I bought him the last two books of the Memory man series he's been enjoying - ebooks are difficult to give as presents, it's like giving a ghost and certainly looks less impressive. So he got a lovely set of windchimes and two pretend books, he was more than happy with it. Delilah and Chloe video chatted with him with Delilah giving a 5 minute list of all the Birthday Things he needed including Birthday Food, a Birthday Tutu (she demonstrated hers for him) A Birthday Cake, etc..... it was a very long list. We're planning once the state reopens that they will come down, Uncle Steve and Aunt Kim will come over and we'll just have one big birthday celebration.
So. A year. An entire year in a new job, a new house, a new state. Amazing.
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