One Year Later (with a small update!!)

It's hard to believe it's been a year since we signed for the house! (and by year, I really mean over a year because I've been bogged down with work and have been too lazy to post when I'm at home).

BUT, it's close enough

Look at how happy Ellie is as we enter for the first time as owners!

It's hard to believe we've been in this house a year. Sometimes I think we've gotten so far since we started scraping the wallpaper in our master bedroom and cleaned/primed the Hobbit Hole (no pictures up yet, I'm getting there). At other times, I think about the 6 other wallpapered rooms, and all the trim that is hung wrong/different colors/etc and feel entirely overwhelmed.

Yes, I wish we had money to throw at all these issues. But it's not an option, and we have to be careful in our decisions for what to toss money at and what has to be done ourselves. And ultimately, it's NICE to work on these things together, like gutting the super overgrown flower bed that's been haunting me since we moved in

Is that a garden bed or the jungle?

I did about half of the right side (where you now see mulch),
Ellie powered through the rest because she is an amazing rockstar

So, we need more mulch. A lot more

Looking at that now getting overgrown again because I haven't bought that mulch I was supposed to empty bed is SO heartening, and I'm already planning what I'll plant come next Spring. This bed is MINE, something I'm not sure I'd feel if someone else had done the grunt work. Once it gets cool again, I hope to dig up the bed near this one to re-plant the billion spring bulbs that I dug out & hopefully saved.