Making a House a Home - Part 4

The first night in the new house was a hard to really "enjoy" as the movers didn't even leave until after 8pm, and there was so much work we still wanted to try and get done. We were so exhausted we basically just crashed. We were heading south in the morning to go back and take care of things at the old place. I took the boys to a birthday party and then the park to hang out with some friends while Daddy and MIL made our old place look spic and span!

We met back at the old place around 3 and it was so weird to walk inside. I was at the new house when the movers packed up so I never saw the Revere place empty.







It was so empty. Like we were never even there. It was funny how small the place looked. It seemed almost impossible that all of our furniture had fit in that space. It made me understand why some people pay big bucks to stage their homes when they put them on the market. Even at the new house; some of the rooms looked smaller than we remembered, until we started filling them with our stuff!

We woke up on Sunday and it was time to really start making this house our home! We still had a lot of boxes to still unpack and we had lots of organizing to do as well. The yard was going to need some serious TLC, but that would have to wait until Mid-week. The Doc still had to go back to Revere for his last few days of work. He scheduled an overnight shift on Monday so he would just stay at the Hospital for the night and finish up with his last day on Tuesday. The boys and I continued to unpack and run errands. And then on Wednesday it was time to start working on the yard.

We bought a lawnmower (our first one ever, since we have never had a yard before!), a hose, a weed-whacker and a composter. We havall new toys to try and make the yard look loved again! We had the irrigation system serviced in hopes that it would help revive the dead lawn and to some extent it has helped but next spring we'll have to do some more serious work to fix it.

Evan helping with some weeding


Building the composter


The inaugural mowing of the lawn


Evan wanted to "help" Daddy


The weed whacker


My new composter! It will be great for our garden next year. In Concord, you pay for your trash by the bag. So you purchase special purple trash bags. We always recycled but now this is just one more advantage to starting our compost!