Well, we are finally here! We arrived at our new home and laid eyes on it for the first time, two weeks ago today. After basically living in our car with very few stops for a whole week, we were so happy to pull in our driveway and call our new place "home." We bought a cute little house on almost an acre of land here in NC. The house was built in 1995 and we new it needed some updating. We purposely chose a house that we could make "our own" by updating it. Since it was Saturday and we weren't going to get our household goods until Wednesday, we went to my Dad's house after dropping off one of our cars and putting most of our diddy move stuff in the house. We enjoyed the comforts of home at Dad's and got to watch the super bowl on a high def TV. (Important for Tom :) We stayed two nights and went home on Monday morning to get started on the painting and updating the fixtures throughout the house. When we pulled into the driveway, I instantly noticed the pool of water in the driveway and thought "hmmm, it hasn't been raining so where did that come from." And there began the fun of our next week. We opened the door to be greeted by much water in the house. As it turns out the flapper valves on the toilets (which were supposed to be replaced by the seller before closing) were not replaced and when the kids used the bathroom the water kept on flowing while we were gone backing up our septic system which unknown to us, had a very large tree root blocking large amounts of water from getting through. This caused all of the drains in the bathtub and shower to flow over into the house for the entire two days we were at my dads. Did I add that we had just had brand new hard wood floors installed before we moved in. Praise God for homeowners insurance. Basically after three days of six enormous fans and two enormous dehumidifiers going 24/7, the house dried out. The duct work under the house in the crawl space had to be replaced and a few other little things fixed. Our hard wood floors are also being replaced all to the small tune of our $500 deductible. I have learned to adopt the phrase, "it could have been worse." And have learned after crying a lot that first day to just laugh deliriously since neither makes a difference and the latter is much more fun. We didn't have any flooding upstairs, and thanks to insurance a lot of things have been updated that wouldn't have been. So, now we have all of our stuff and have unpacked every room in the house except the master bedroom because the floors haven't been replaced in there yet. We had to order more wood. Anyway... we love our new home and have alr
eady made huge progress in updating it with paint, light fixtures and appliances. We can't wait to have visitors, although we will have to, since we have to sleep in the guest room until the master bedroom floors are finished.Moving on to some more great news, I had my follow up CT scan shortly after getting here and there has been no change in my lymph nodes since my last CT! I am so happy. I guess once you have been sick if you have one unusual pain or odd feeling anywhere in the region of where your cancer was you tend to get a little nervous. It brought me great peace to have that CT and know that everything is as it should be.
Lastly but certainly not least, I have to boast about my man. He is usually very modest and doesn't like me to share these things but it turned out he won flight commander of the year for the 12th Air Force. The 12th Air Force consists of several different Air Force bases. It really is a big deal and I am very proud of him.
Thank you again to all my friends and family that have been praying
for us. It has certainly made a difference during this very stressful time.Blessings,
Michelle
