Our 1st week of home ownership

Well, after a very long and arduous slog through the purchase process, we have finally closed on our home.

Now we are in the early stages of renovation. The kitchen will get a very serious makeover, and the rest of the place will mostly get paint, and some flooring.

Here's how things have played out so far:

Friday, 10/30 -- Closing! We had friends and pizza at the house to celebrate!

Saturday, 10/31 -- A little too booked with Halloween events to visit the new abode.

Sunday, 11/1 -- Pulled up carpet from 2 upstairs rooms.

Monday, 11/2 -- Carpet removed from two more rooms. (Carpet pulling is faster than I expected.)

Tuesday, 11/3 -- Rest!

Wednesday, 11/4 -- Last 2 rooms cleared of carpet (I hate carpet! None in my house, thank you!), plus carpet removed from stairs.

Thursday, 11/5 -- Pulled up carpet staples from stairs, guest bedroom, and sewing room. Removed carpet tack from guest bedroom. THIS WAS BACKBREAKING WORK! This is also where the time suck is on carpet removal, as it turns out. Those staples on the stairs really kicked my ass, and Brian was totally worn out from yanking up those strips of carpet tack. BUT progress is being made, and that feels good.

Every moment we spend working on the house, I feel more like it's our home.

I can't wait until the moment when we can just live in it and not have a mile-long list of work that needs to be done, but we'll get there, slowly but surely!