We've moved! 2 months in the National Capital Region

We're here! We made it to the NCR and have set up most of our house.

We arrived in mid-July and have been super busy ever since!

The roof has been replaced, the septic needed replacing and is nearly done. We have just one inspection to go on that. Did anyone else realize that it takes WEEKS to have your septic fields and tanks replaced? It does. If you ever need to know that, just be aware. It also makes a great mess. Piles of sand, clear stone and topsoil all over the yard.

The mouldy basement bathroom has been torn out. We haven't started replacing anything in there yet. It was horrible. Black mould, wood and drywall that were soaked in water. Black 2x4's.

We also tore out all the carpet in the basement family room. It was filthy, and the underlay installed wrong. The rubber bottom layer was touching the carpet instead of being face-down. Which meant that it did nothing to help with the moisture problem down there. There was also no kind of sub floor. Which again, moisture problems.

We have repainted the entire main floor of the house. All 4 bedrooms, kitchen, living room, family room and en suite bathroom. The only room left is the main bathroom. It was many, many weekends of work, trying to fit it around other things going on, but it's done now. The house is much brighter. Who ever thought that a dark, army green colour and a tan/green/grey colour would be a good idea in an already darkish house? We are surrounded by a lot of trees. Light colours are a must!

We're now replacing light switches and outlet covers. Not only are they all an ivory colour, but every single outlet in the house is installed upside down. No idea why. It is so strange. So, Corey has had to shut off power in various rooms- marking the fuse box as he goes- nothing has been labelled! And he's slowly making his way around the house, flipping the wiring over and installing new, white covers.

Next up- sun room needs painting. It's currently dark wood panels and is absorbing most of the natural light. I'm either going to white wash it, or paint it a white colour with a yellow undertone. It will brighten up that room and hopefully inside the house.

After that- the kitchen! The cabinet are all oak, and I'm going to paint them white. We are going to make the island larger and install a flat top cooktop. We have a broken GenAir weird cook top now that I greatly dislike. It only has 2 elements that are cast iron and a grill. Only 1 element actually works and the grill gets warm, but not hot enough to actually cook anything. It's an overall bad set up.

I'd also like to replace the counter tops at some point. They are white, installed poorly and have some burn marks from previous owners. Functional, but ugly.

I'm also back to work with Rodan & Fields! I can't believe I actually got paid this summer and didn't really do any work at all. Hurray for passive income!

I'm currently loving the Unblemish line. It seems to have dried up the exzema I had. Their Soothe line was working ok, but I ran out of wash when I forgot to reorder in all the moving madesss. So, I used the Unblemish wash that Corey uses for shaving. I think it's the sulfur in it that works. So much for thinking it would be too harsh on my skin. It works amazing!

If you are interested in learning more or getting a sample of a few goodies, please send me an email. No one is ever under any pressure to buy anything. Lora (dot) Prentis (at) gmail (dot) com

More posts soon about my new business with Rodan & Fields and our new house. I have got to get some photos on here! The property we bought is very pretty and I want to share before the snow flies!

One week in

We've officially lived in our house for one whole week! It actually went by fairly slowly, which is surprising, given the amount of stuff there was (and still is) to do.

Last Monday was our first night in the house, and by the time evening fell, we were all exhausted. The boys went to day camp, and before I could even drop them off, the unpackers had arrived. They were gone by nine, which means they spend a grand total of 1 hour at our house. We only had them unpack breakable items, such as dishes. There were also 3 of them, so it went really fast.

The rest of the day was spent putting things away, mainly sorting out the kitchen. Hubby got pictures on the walls, some mirrors up, and connected all the components for the television. Speakers, PS3, Wii, all the fun stuff. We're getting really fast at the set-up. The boys rooms were both unpacked and set up on Saturday, before the official unpack day. I just couldn't wait to start opening boxes. The days between Friday (the unload) and Monday never seem so long as when we're waiting to unpack!

I'm going to have to backtrack on this blog for a bit, in order to post photos and stories from our drive out here. I was putting photos on my photography site, but it's just too long of a process to upload and tag the photos properly over there when there are so many.

We had little to no internet up until now, including the drive across, so my apologies to all of you who have been waiting for Kelso's adventure to commence. I'm working on it now, as time allows. As you can imagine, having the boys home for the summer plus unpacking and setting up a house, as well as getting used to our new city is taking up much of my time right now.