Knotty Mouse

From everyone here at the house of Mouse…  wishing you a happy holiday, whichever one you celebrate! (even if its just Happy Friday!)

Hello from the new Chez Mousie! We’re slowly digging ourselves out from under the mass of boxes and getting the new place set up for the upcoming holidays. The move went rather less smoothly than anticipated (and after all of the moves I’ve been through, I assure you that I didn’t anticipate a problem free relocation) due to miserable weather (heavy rain & cold wind), lack of the proper sized moving truck (stupid stupid rental truck company!!), and the fact that most of our moving help (scheduled up long in advance) bailed out on us at the last minute.

Munchkin left his old school on Friday and started his new school last Monday – he’s slowly adjusting to his new schedule & teacher. He’s taking being “the new kid” pretty rough.. but we’re trying to work through it. I’m sure the poor kid would be doing better if he had tv- its still not on after almost 2 weeks. I had thought ahead and scheduled up our satellite tv installation for the Monday after we moved into the house only to find out that we can’t GET satellite tv here because of the trees surrounding the house. *sigh*  Even though I lived without tv for years while we moved around the US, I have to admit that even I’m starting to have tv withdrawal symptoms.  Being without tv and internet did do wonders for me being productive and festive.. behold :

This is the living room of the new house.. complete with a 7 foot fake Xmoose tree.  You can’t see it well from the photo but the lights on the tree are two shades of blue and an awesome set of dark purple from Halloween – the rest of the tree is decorated with various toy ornaments and sparkly things from Target.  I love our living room..  its my favorite room of the house.

I’m actually really happy with our new house and I was very pleasantly surprised when we got all of our furniture into it with room to spare.  I’m currently typing this post from MY OWN ROOM!!! I am very happy to have an office/studio/whatever where I can store all of my yarn & crafty things so that the rest of the house isn’t a disaster.  My husband also has his own office (a huge room which is actually a converted garage) which is excellent because he works from home and has tons of stuff.   Munchkin has a really nice sized room with a huge closet and lots of floor space for playing with his pirate ships & legos. We’ve also got two bathrooms (including a master suite), a master bedroom, eat in kitchen (painted the most awesome shade of green..) and huge yard with a wrap around deck, wooden fence, and a large storage house.
Without a doubt the best thing about the house is THIS:

I can’t even tell you how happy having heat makes me after spending a year & a half living with space heaters and freezing our asses off.  One of the worst things about living in the other house was worrying about whether Munchkin was going to be warm enough at night and hearing how upset he was that he had to come home to a cold house every day.   Its clearly obvious from the drastic improvement in our health that the old house (which was also apparently growing toxic black mold) was very literally making us all sick.  I’m so thrilled to be out of there!!
Members of the family are reacting to the new addition of central heat like this :

ahhhhh….  (because really.. that face says it all!)