19 days until we are homeowners to our new home, and second home, and 29 days until we no longer own our current home, and will only own one home. Excitement to be the new occupants of our new home is bountiful. I can not wait to get in there! Our first step is ripping up the top floor rugs and laying this beautiful hardwood flooring. I LOVE it! It’s so very Joanna Gaines style and I’m obsessed. Next step, painting the kitchen cabinets white. Then I will really feel like we are making it our perfect home.

Today we sold our bedroom set and will temporarily be sleeping on our mattress on the floor. It’s a positive step though because it was never really our style and I was definitely ready to embrace a more farmhouse/Fixer Upper/Joanna style. It took me until I was in  my late 30’s to really know what interior style was really our comfort place. Now we are ready to start fresh and really embrace it.

On a different note, I CAN NOT wait to use our new RV! Shaun and I really know now, after our first two RVs, what we needed and what we didn’t. This RV, the 2017 Highland Ridge Roamer RT328BHS, is the ideal one for us! Roomy, snuggle space, big fridge, bedrooms on opposite sides, big windows for lots of natural light, and real toilets (yes, that’s a real concern).

This weekend Natalie and I went on a Girl Scout trip in the woods, which was fun and busied my mind which was great. We came home, sold our bedroom set and some other items we know we won’t use and started removing wall decor and frames. It’s hardcore packing time this week. The house looks bare and depressing. Starting yesterday it has been a lot of tears on my part and poor Shaun is taking the brunt of it because I’m hiding it from the girls.

Big changes equals big emotions and bigger tears. The fact that I love our house, our town, our lives here is NOT helping with the total anguish I’m feeling. So I’ll need two boxes this week for sure, packing boxes and boxes of tissue. It’s on joy, fear, anger, and sadness sans the animation.