It takes a family

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This weeks adventures were filled with work.  So so much work.  Instead of it taking a village, it took a family...

Even the wee one got in on the work.  She is a killer painter, just saying.  Seriously, it took the whole family.  In less than a week, we completed every remodel project, cleaned it all up and got the house ready for pictures on Friday morning.  Proud to say, we got it all done and it looked amazing.  So amazing, I am pretty sure we don't actually live here and this is someone else's house!  The family...I really don't know what we would have done without every single member of the family working so hard.  Family is why we must go.  Family is everything.  Family is priority.

Saturday brought a house was full of strangers.  Who doesn't love an indoor "yard sale" in January?!?  Seriously successful yard sale.  We went from this....
To this.....
A person literally bought everything in our bedroom right down to the art work.  She wanted the curtains but I had a feeling that the neighbors would be scarred for life if I let her take them.  So the curtains stayed and the camper mattress came in and landed on our floor.  Turns out, with our mattress topper, it is actually more comfortable than our bed was.  The rest of the house...pretty much the same thing!  I love the look of an empty house on a Saturday.  (or Sunday or any day when I know it gets us one step closer to Hawaii!)

We are well on our way in this journey.  The house goes on the market on Thursday and the open house is Saturday.  Wow, this is real, like really real and we are SO good with it.  

Mahalo,
The fam

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