Operation Sell Our House!

 The week after Max's birthday it was time to hit it hard getting our house ready to put on the market. 

 We dejunked the yard tossed our failing trampoline and delivered our slide to a friends house. Mer and I were proud of ourselves for successfully heaving the slide onto the roof of the car and securing it enough to drive across town without it flying off the roof. 

We packed up everything we could and took it to a storage unit. Which meant I had to give up almost all of my sewing supplies.

This little 10 X 5 space is now as full as we can get it. I'm surprised how much we fit into it.

I added another coat of stain to our worn out coffee table...

We changed our sitting room to a dining room and found a decent table on craigslist.

I also spent a day sewing a bunch of pillows an attempting to decorate our sparse living room. I think I went a little overboard with the turquoise but oh well, it'll do for now.

We also had the carpets cleaned in every single room and closet.  There was literally nothing on the floor that day. The carpet cleaner was here for 6 hours and came back the next day too.  These carpets have never been so clean. And our closets have never looked so empty. It's so nice!

I made a frame to go around each mirror in the bathrooms. They were a real pain but they look great and I got to buy myself a chops saw which I've been wanting for years. And look, the ugly towel rack is gone!

The kids worked so hard that week we had to go out for a little reward every once and a while.

And we squeezed in a trip to the beach too where we experience a rare occasion of pouring rain with no lightning. They actually stayed in the water during the storm which felt a little creepy to watch.

At the beginning of the next week the realtor came over and put a TON of fake houseplants all over the place and took official pictures for listing the house. It's like a little jungle in our living room. You can google our address if you want to see our listing and the pictures.

The pictures were taken on Monday and we were scheduled to leave for Colorado on Wednesday. We just had to keep our house perfect for 1 day. We thankfully had been invited to a birthday party at Disney's Ft Wilderness so we spent Tuesday swimming in Orlando, came home that night and packed, and left town at 5am the next day. Phew! It was crazy.

I kind of can't believe we pulled it all off. The house has been on the market for about 3 weeks. It's been seen 8 times. No offers, which is fine cause we don't know where we're going yet when it does sell. We are just taking it all one day at a time over here and doing our best to keep the house picked up in the mean time.

 More catch up posting to come tomorrow...