Holly’s Happenings

We got the keys to this house on October 1st, but we didn’t move in until the following week. So if you want to get technical, we’ve been in the new house for almost 2 months now. I have no regrets about moving here, and although it’s a smaller house than the one we moved from as far as square footage, in many ways it has more room than our old house. For instance, at the old house we had a huge kitchen and a huge dining room, but a small living room with a foyer off it that, in my opinion was wasted space. The old house also had 4 bedrooms and one bathroom. The new house has a large eat in kitchen, but no dining room, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a living room and a family room. The extra bathroom is awesome and we’ve actually set things up so that the living room “belongs” to the kids and the family room “belongs” to the hubby and I. And for the first time in more than a couple of years, he and I can actually sit and have a conversation without one of the kids being right on top of us and butting in! I guess the only thing left to do is find a good real estate agent and make sure that this is our house for keeps!

Since we moved into the new house, we’ve had one problem after another with our DSL connection. At first it was because the phone lines in the house had been struck by lightning so they had to replace all of those. Once they replaced all of those they discovered that there were still problems and the eventually discovered that the phone line from the phone box to the house must have also been hit by lightning so they replaced that as well. Once that line was replaced we finally did get a dial tone, but there were still problems, so they came back into the house and started testing all of the phone jacks. One by one it was discovered that they all needed to be replaced as well. All of that cleared up the majority of the problem but last week they discovered there is now a problem with the fiber optic cables that run to the phone box outside. Unfortunately we’re going to have to sit on that problem for a while because they’ve said they won’t replace those until spring. I love living in the country, but I sure do wish we had the option of cable!