Feel Good
It continues to be a wild few weeks over here... and I've officially entered the mode of existing hour-by-hour while trying to survive. I managed to pull together this house for listing on the market, and it was hard and tiring and sad and exciting all at the same time. This is the third round of selling for me (I've moved a fairly large number of times between graduating high school and now), and I hate the part where you have to strip down your home and turn it into just a house that's void of all personality. My normal home is decorated primarily with my photography of all the kids; my current house is sterile and non-descript, and I know that's the point, but it now feels like I'm squatting in someone else's empty space.
In the meantime, I've been trying to navigate the fun of buying and the additional fun of buying an old (very old) house. The inspection was on Monday, and the major thing that came back (aside some from foundation-related stuff that I knew is an eventual thing to take care of) was the electrical is a mix of OLD knob and tube wiring and newer stuff (some of which is attached to the same circuit, eek). I am hugely afraid of fire, and messing around with electrical is not something I'm prepared at all to do. After several hours of Reddit deep dives earlier this week, I came to the conclusion that this was probably a full-house rewire that was going to cost a small fortune and require lath and plaster walls to be torn apart (which spiraled me into well I might as well just do a huge reno all at once), so I was pleasantly surprised when an actual electrician saw it in the flesh and reported that actually it was not as catastrophic as I was picturing and there is a chance it'll be half of my guess.
SO I am now waiting for an actual estimate and crossing everything that the sellers grant me some credit to handle this, and then I can move on to finding a contractor and painters and someone to build me a fence.
Honestly it's all a lot and I'm trying to balance freaking out with attacking things systematically while processing the entire thing. There are a lot of moving pieces and uncertainty, and while I am naturally 10 steps ahead, there's a lot about this I can't totally control and that is HARD.
Do Good
Honestly this has been all-consuming, so while the kids went to swimming on Saturday, all of my other spare time has been spent cleaning and hiding things and painting, and none of that is particularly exciting.
My children (cough Hailey cough) are tiny tornadoes and I feel like I am just chasing them all day like a vacuum picking up errant toys and stuffies while still working and dealing with the normal essential hierarchy of needs things.
I'm currently also distracting myself with photoshopping and AI-ing decor, and at least that's bringing me some joy.
Look Good
I was so busy that I forgot to capture most of this week?! We've had some rain finally, but otherwise we're into glorious 75deg spring, and it's been lovely.
