FINALLY...THE MOVE!!!

It seemed like it would never happen, but we have finally made it...the big move!  Most of our stuff is up in the mountains and we are here more or less full time.  The house has turned into a thing of beauty without the red paper on the floor, the dust cleaned off the windows (I hired that done.), our familiar furniture placed in the new spaces, and the arrival of our family for the Thanksgiving holidays.

It was everything I wanted it to be.  My cousin, Chuck, and his wife came from Texas; my mother from Greensboro; my sisters, Judy and Mary, and their families from Winston and Charlotte; my son, Jon, and his family,also from Charlotte.  We did miss Adam and his family who spent the holiday in their new home in Austin, TX; and my brother, Charlie and his family.  Charlie had knee replacement surgery on the Monday before so we forgave him for being unable to travel.  He had a rough couple of days, but he is doing much better now.

We had 13 people spending the night on Thanksgiving night.  It's nice to have enough room for most everybody!  The grandchildren decorated our new nine foot Christmas tree on Thanksgiving afternoon and a more beautiful tree I have not seen!

The children were so funny.  My nephews built this great big bonfire and the more they drank the bigger it got.  Most of us made our way to the fire at some point during the day, but the evening was the most fun!  There were a few snow flurries and it was almost magical to sit by the fire while snow drifted down around us.  Jon, Jr. asked me for a "fashyight" and the three of them entertained themselves by running around the rather large yard (to the dismay of their mother) shining it onto unfamiliar objects.  Patti was afraid that they would get hurt or lost, but they managed to keep themselves in one piece and had a great time doing it!

The house is beautiful and Jim and I are very happy here.  I'll put a few pics of some rooms up so you can see what they look like.  I'm not a very good photographer so this won't look like Southern Living.

If I get all the mailing addresses changed I will consider myself lucky!  We have not yet sold our Charlotte house, and will have to make some decisions about it after the first of the year.

Hope all of you have a wonderful holiday season.

The kitchen cabinets will be delivered on Thursday and the installer will be here on Monday.  The appliances will be here at the end of next week and then it will be about 2 weeks for the granite to get measured, cut and installed.  The house should then be perfect!  I'll send a picture as I am very proud of our choices for the kitchen.

I am going to change the name of the blog to "The Hillbilly Chronicles", but you will be able to acess it the same way as always:  thecontinuing press.blogspot.com   Love to all!