Home.

Guess what, y’all…our house is EMPTY. That means after the long weekend we will have KEYS to our home and can move back in. It has been a long 2.5 years and hard these last 5 months living a few streets away in this rental waiting for our renters to move out. I’m so ready. Alabama wont feel quite right until we are in our house again.

We stopped by today to meet with a guy from Window World to get an estimate on changing out the old, heavy wood, thin windows to some new vinyl energy efficient windows that actually OPEN! Pretty excited about that. Too bad one of the selling points on the house 6 years ago was the fact there were so many windows (22 including the garage) which just means SO MANY to replace. Ugh.

But it will be worth it, yes? I hope so.

Anywho, in my best Sponge Bob voice… Im ready! Im ready! Im ready!

The lantana I planted forever ago will be needing a trim…

Same goes for my roses and azaleas. They’re in there somewhere.

We will also be trimming back some of the trees. Our yard there is so woodsy full of nuts and leaves. I will miss this wide open grassy backyard a lot. And all the different lilies the owner (or one enthusiastic renter) has planted all over the place.

We still need to get this whole house full of stuff over to that house and set it all up but even so, it’s good to finally feel like we are home!