Another Day, Another Move

Today our lease at the new house began. After only two hours of sleep, I got up and took Alex to school and then drove--with Aaron in tow--to Waimea to pick up the keys to the house and pay the rent for this month. I also went to look at a chair I had found on craigslist and bought it! So yeah! We have a chair! The only piece of furniture we own that we can sit on, other than our beds. :) This is a really bad photo of the chair here, I pulled it off of craigslist, but for $100.00 I thought it was a great find!

We've had quite a running list of things to buy since we moved here and we are beginning to see items being checked off our list.

1) Washing Machine - Since our friends moving into our first house have their own washing machine, we suggested to the landlord that we buy their washing machine. So, it looks like that's what we're doing. It's not the brand new washer and dryer set I would have run out and put on a credit card because we NEEDED IT, as I may have done at another time in my life...BUT, it gets our clothes clean and it's less than a year old and is only costing us $150.00! So we won't have a dryer, but I haven't had one since we moved here and have lived to tell about it, so a clothes line it is.

2) Wind Chimes!!! Haha... It may sound funny, but this was way up there on my "needs" list! I can't tell you how wonderful it is to hear the constant chiming in the breeze here. Peter & I both have grown to love hearing the chimes at our first house and didn't want to give that up, ESPECIALLY considering the fact that we are moving next to a rooster farm! So, for Valentine's Day Peter went out and bought me a very nice set of Mongolian Mezzo chimes. Now I fear I am becoming a wind chime snob because these sound AMAZING compared to the clanging cheap chimes that were hanging on our house when we arrived. It is worth it to pay for nice ones! The first time someone came over after we hung the new chimes they commented immediately on the great sound. See?

3) A Bundt Pan - It may seem like a petty need or want, but let me tell you, without a bundt pan I cannot make my Darn Good Chocolate Cake, and without my Darn Good Chocolate Cake when I really want it, well... let's just say I really needed a bundt pan. I threw my 10-year-old Pampered Chef pan away when we moved because it was peeling and nasty looking. I could have easily picked up a bundt pan at WalMart when we were in Kona, but for some reason I wanted it to have more of a story than that. So, one Saturday morning when we were at the local farmer's market, an astrologer had a booth set up and she approached me. She told me I was going to have a girl and she would have dark hair, and she KNEW because she did this "all the time." Haha... Okay, lady. Nevermind your "prophecy," sell me your amazing top-quality star-shaped bundt pan! And so she did, for 50 cents. And my Darn Good Chocolate Cake never looked better!

So, other than the items I mentioned above, we haven't purchased or otherwise inherited much "stuff." In addition to the washing machine, we are also buying a double futon-like bed and a small blue dresser from the owners of our first house. It looks like we may be having some friends come to live with us for a couple of months, so we thought they could use the bed and, when they're done, we'll put it in the outdoor play room for the boys. And the dresser will go in the boys' bedroom. Oh, and I am also buying this butterfly vase I had to have because of my current butterfly fetish. So I got the double bed, dresser, butterfly vase and a ton of hangers from our first house all for $100.00. Not bad.

Dang, I am RAMBLING like crazy tonight, aren't I? If anyone is still reading this, I would wonder why. Well, if I have anything else to add about this move, I would have to say it is definitely being done "aloha style." We are taking our time, enjoying the process and not letting ourselves get all stressed out about it. It's great!