Twelve days

We're back in the Haddon house! Yahoo! There are touch-ups still to be done on the interior and more exterior work, but the fumes have dissipated and the major appliances are back in. We'll sleep here tonight. We haven't decided exactly where. That seems like a detail. We've been out for twelve days.

It is yet another Moving Day, cleaning up the place we're moving out of and readying the place we're moving into, hauling things around, wondering where to put them. But it's sort of a way of life at the moment. The next few weeks are a reason to take things one day at a time:

1. Kari and Danny and Harry and Sam arrive tomorrow. They had expected to come in July, but their dog lost his eye and they had to postpone. It's a little hard to imagine what it will be like having houseguests, but they're pretty understanding.
2. Next week Sergio will paint the basement walls, some of which show signs of moisture that would be likely to scare prospective buyers. We think there's no reason for them to be scared; the overgrown bushes outdoors probably were holding the moisture. Painting the basement is simple and fast, but it means, of course, that everything has to be moved away from the walls.
3. Also next week, Fanta is closed for summer vacation, so one of us has to be home with Aaron every day.
4. The week after that, starting the 18th, is the first week that the houses are on the market.
5. The week after that, starting the 25th, Jordan's school is closed for summer vacation.

And sometime around then one of us should probably be going to Seattle to choose a house.