It is six AM and I am sitting here on the couch in the cabin watching the fire through the glass door of the stove.
The children are still asleep up in the loft and Andy is trying to convince himself to get up.
This week has been pretty epic for us. We got moved in on Saturday with a lot of help from church people, and since then we have felt like we’re on vacation or that it’s Christmas or something.
The pressure is off, and while we’re still building shelves and working on electrical, there is just no hurry!
First meal in the cabin
One of the things I like the most about living in the cabin is having our own space as a couple.
In the camper and motorhome after putting the children to bed, the only place left for us was to go to bed ourselves so we didn’t wake them back up.
Now we can put them to bed in the loft and have the whole kitchen and living room to ourselves until we feel like hitting the sack. It’s lovely!
I love getting up around five, coming down and getting the fire going, then hanging out with Andy, reading our Bibles or just talking until Gabe gets up around 6:30.
I’ve also been having fun with the uninterrupted time in the kitchen to try out some new recipes before the children get up. I’ve been trying specialty bread recipes and the bread never lasts more than one meal. 🙂 Today I am going to try Italian Ciabatta Bread. I love my big kitchen!
On Wednesday we left the children at Matts and went up to Anchorage for Andy’s six week check up. We went a little early and went out to eat to have a little date and also celebrate moving into the cabin.
They took some X-rays of Andy’s hip and said the bones are healing very well.
The incision is not healing well though, and he’s been fighting infection. They gave us some antibiotics and swabs and said he needs to stop being so active. The nurse seemed rather horrified to hear he had been up on ladders and building things.
After the hospital we went and got a couch we found on Craigslist. Brown leather for $150!! (Wipable!!) we were pretty tickled, and even more tickled that we fit it in our mini van. Then we proceeded to see how much more we could fit in there. 7 folding chairs, a high chair for Jasmine, a glider chair for the children’s room, two boxes of diapers, a blind, some groceries and two large laundry baskets, and a front facing car seat for Gabe. Plus a few other odds and ends.
It was a blast. We’ve never been furniture shopping before!
Had to leave the couch at Matts in order to pick up the children, but Andy went back yesterday morning and picked it up. We had to take the door off the hinges, but we got it in here by ourselves!
It takes up a lot of room. Eventually it will go back along the wall, but right now the work bench is in the way.
Yesterday I did a lot of sorting and organizing between the many puppy calls. Try moving into a house that has one shelf in the kitchen and absolutely no cupboards or places to put things! It’s difficult. Everything that you don’t use constantly ends up in boxes in the loft.
Andy made me another kitchen shelf last night, and I went through the boxes cluttering up the loft and made a storage pile, keep in here pile, and yard sale pile. I want to do a yard sale in the spring.
Getting a high chair and a rocking chair was really exciting for me. Feels like I’m finally able to get the “mom stuff” I always thought would be so nice but we never had room for.
Yes, this week has been really epic!!
Andy’s incision is much better thanks to antibiotics and swabs we are using. It still needs a lot of healing tho!
I’m so happy for you! Love your posts!
Tell Andy to slow down! 🙂 Hopefully his incision is better now.
Tabitha, that bread looks wonderful! No wonder it doesn’t last long!
I know what it’s like to go from small house to large, though your large house is probably still smaller than our small house was!