Welcome Home!
We arrived in our house monday night, and totally de-junked the house. It took 11 garbage bags to clean out all of the closets. The toy room was given the clean sweep and the new toys were put away. It is amazing how much your children's interests change in 18 months.
The new fridge arrived, Addie's mattress came, phone service is now working, Directv fixed the satelite, and my children came enthousiastically off the plane wanting to see the house they had left behind. Addie was so excited to have a new "Big Girl's Bed" that she screamed when she ran up stairs for the first look at her new bed.
Many things have changed over the last 18 months, my style of clothing, my kids toys, but not the feelings I have for my house and the memories that we have had here. I hope that the next 18 months will be for rebuilding, making new friends, learning to love the city and the culture more, learning to cook some more Southern food, learning to love the Church on Cleveland Place instead of the one on Academy Drive, eating snowballs, finding more good restaurants, and listening to the sounds of a Southern rain.
So, Welcome Home.
posted by Allison at
9:41 PM
11 Comments:
That makes me want to come visit seeing your house. I am so glad you were able to get so much done before your kids got in. Welcome home!! See I knew you could write and blog. Love ya!!
What a wonderful feeling to have so much cleaned out and organized. It must be great to have your kids back with you. Good luck getting settled in and reaquanting yourselves with NOLA.
Welcome home Alli.
I am so glad your little family is reunited, but that you and Richard could be there alone for a couple days!
Glad everything is going good in NOLA and you got some things done before the kiddos joined you. I'm planning on dejunking AGAIN soon. Do you have any secrets? or should I jsut get Jenny back down here to help?
I thought you said you couldn't write/blog!
Welcome home!!
You made me cry. What an adventure you've had. Welcome home!
Wow... what an 18 months is has been and will be!
Welcome Home! Thanks for letting us all join in!
Welcome Home! I love the de-junked feeling in a home. Good luck with your list of things to do in the next 18 months. They sound wonderful!
wow, amazing that you went back. honestly i don't know if i could have done it (and i love that place) ... the lesson you have taught your children by returning will be everlasting.
That has got to be such a bizarre situation, to come back to your house after 18 months away. I'm so glad you guys made it home safely and that you're so happy to be back.
Aren't you so happy you can blog about it? Ha.
Welcome Home! I'm hoping you will like your new ward at Cleveland Place. We loved it, but I know it is quite different now. I am sure you will be embraced with many open arms! I cannot believe it has been 18 months, but welcome home! You have inspired me to perhaps start my own blog!
Eat lots of snowballs for me!! And welcome home.
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