Home sweet Home

Well, we've been in our new home for six days now and we absolutely love it. It's big, bright, clean and beautiful! My knitting chair is set up next to the fireplace, backing onto the living room window (southwest exposure, perfect for afternoon knitting), and the yarn is safely stowed away (and organized!) in its own yarn cabinet here in the computer room. Well... most of it. Three bags full of wool didn't QUITE fit, but they are for specific projects and therefore not part of the general stash, so that doesn't count... really.

It's five minutes for Peter to get to work, and a very relaxing bus ride for me (one bus, wohoo!) - about 30 minutes in the morning and 45 in the evening. Love not having to drive in the traffic anymore, especially with it getting dark so soon and the bad weather coming on.

I do have some small Christmas knitting to get onto soon, but first I'm making something for me; another One-Row Scarf, this one in green and black to match the Basic Cable I made last year for Peter (and then mistakenly felted in the wash - oops). It's actually a 2-row scarf, because I'm using some Patons Classic that had been worked with the green and black together, and I'm untwisting the two colours as I go. So it's two rows green, two rows black, and so on. I think it's coming together very pretty, and I can actually knit it on the bus using a small circular - the advantage of being one of the early stops on the route, I always get a seat!

So back to the new place... (sorry, very VERY excited about the new place). We are probably about 70% unpacked now (many more empty boxes than full ones!) and having a great deal of fun with finding just the right places for furniture and all the bits and pieces that make it home. Also clearing out MASSIVE amounts of stuff - some to a friend who is moving at the end of this month, and probably a couple of carloads full to the Value Village - still good things, but we set ourselves strict criteria:

1. Do we need it?
2. Do we LIKE it?
3. Do we have a place for it?

Amazing all the things that pile up over the years and you don't notice because they're squirreled away in closets or they've just "always been there." It's really refreshing to clear the junk this way (would have been better to do it BEFORE the move and not have to pack it all, but no system is perfect!). And we are acquiring a few nice new things - little touches like new bathroom mats and dish towels, start off fresh and clean and keep good housekeeping habits right from the get-go. We are finding so much enjoyment in little things like doing the dishes together, right after dinner, so that the kitchen is clean and tidy before bed. A real sense of accomplishment at the end of the evening - we both go to work, we come home, we unpack some stuff, we keep it all tidy and clean and we go to bed feeling happy and proud. It really is an incredible feeling, and it feels like HOME.