Finally Here!

Before I start whining, I am so grateful to be finally here. My husband did a wonderful job painting and whatnot. Our upstairs still has boxes of clothes that need to be unpacked, or gone through or just chucked. Kids accumulate so many clothes.

The hard part (so far) is the plumbing. The Mennonites who lived here previously had no use for hot water (if running water at all-the bathtub is brand new and completely unused). We had Agway come and install a tankless hot water heater and our cooking stove. I was not able to cook for a week, so what a relief that was. After the Agway guys left, we found we only had hot running water in our bathroom.My husband looked around our plumbing and saw the cold water pipe was simply disconnected from the pressure tank. Last night he reconnected it and tested the cold water. It started to rain in our house. Ugh. Our Amish neighbor (perhaps knows) the pipe probably burst last winter, and they simply disconnected the cold water pipe since all the water was running cold anyway. Now we are waiting on the plumber. The good news is, despite the "rain", it was only a small amount and the damage to the ceiling is fixable. I do feel like I am in some bad comedy about a city family moving to the country.

In other news, tomorrow is my birthday. I have reached the point in birthdays where I wish they would stop coming too quickly, or at least stop making me a year older.We are expecting a big snow storm and will probably be snowed in for the weekend.