Morning! How's everyone? Quiet here this morning. DS12 has a dentist appt. this morning. Oh joy and rapture.

He
hates going to the dentist.
Oh, we officially gave notice to our landlord yesterday. Then, in a later email from him, he said he considers us the best tenants he's had in 10 years......
"Great, now I have guilt!!"
No, he's cool with it. Knows we need more space. Somehow I can't help feel like I'm cheating the boys a bit, though. I get a separate office space, full kitchen/dining/living rooms (all separate; here everything's in one big open space), DH and I get a larger bedroom, but the boys are getting smaller rooms from what they have now.

It's workable and they're mostly into it (DH12 not so much; he likes this town and being real close to everything). But we get our own yard and a huge storage shed/barn thing. I have to keep telling myself that the move is for the good of the family as a whole, not just the kids, and they are all getting older and we're in that phase of our lives where we're getting ready to have kids leave the nest. And this is a place DH and I can see ourselves staying in long after we're alone again.
Yesterday DH and I dropped off a paint chip for the new landlord; they had to do some work in the living room which required removal of the sheet rock, so he said if we picked out a color, he'd go ahead and paint that room for us. We picked a nice earthy green, which I think will make the room warm but not seem too dark, and it'll go nicely with the stone fireplace.
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