Stuck in a chair.

I am a bit foggy still and stuck in my chair following a simple meniscus repair surgery on my knee last Thursday. As usual, I have done too much since then and find my knee to be quite painful and a bit...."squishy" or "balloonish" feeling at the moment. I think a water balloon might describe it best. So I will try to catch you all up on the crazy maddens of our lives the last couple months while I "ice". It all started when I was on my way to drop Leah off at her usual piano lesson and happened to notice a "FOR SALE" sign in the neighborhood on the way. I am still not sure why I called on it but I was interested in how much land was there with the home. Turns out it was a short sale and the agent told me it had around 5 ACRES of land. I will save you the details about how difficult a decision it was for us to leave our little world we have created here in our yard, and in the end we gambled that it may be worth it to have almost 5x the amount of land(turns out the agent was a little off at it was around 4.7 acres total). There were many sleepless nights, I lots a bunch of weight, and we bought a new house that was a complete shit-hole!  Since then it has been all consuming. The kids have gone through phases where they refuse to even get out of the car at the new house, they call it "the dirty house", but all in all they have been so very good through the whole process. Here are some pictures of the house before we bought it. Yes, we saw it like this and STILL wanted it. It must be true love right?

Sorry these have no order. Our life has no order right now either.

detached garage

looking west out to the barn

the barn will be super fancy when we get it all cleaned up. You can tell someone spent some serious money building it but the last owners let it go.

so much hay storage/alpaca shelter

the blank slate pasture

The home is very structurally sound, built in the late 70's and brick!

Wow it felt good to see this all ripped out!

Keep in mind every inch of carpeting was soaked with dog urine! Holy smell! We have chosen to have zero carpeting  in this home. After pulling it all out, carpet is the last thing I want to put into my house. 

The interrogation chair. WHAT THE!!!????

A handy way to attach your TV to your dresser....rope. And yes, that carpet in their bedroom they were living is is also urine soaked!

The kids bedrooms have very nice big windows

we took out both upstairs bathrooms and rearranged them to have a much more "open "feel

You can get a little glimpse here of the urine circles

Now thats a master bath...HA!

I will say iIdid like the blue shower but it had to go,  it was way too small.