It’s been a long road but I’d say we’re about 80% moved into our house now. In some ways I think that’s a pretty good accomplishment, and yet… those remaining boxes are like a stone in my shoe. So annoying. I just want to finish it!!! Part of the problem is I need to find some storage solutions for the rest of it. Something like a buffet or china cabinet for many things. And then there’s all of Chris’ office stuff that will go to his office at the base when he’s finished with that.

And even with things that are unpacked but just not put away, there are hold ups. We’re at the stage now that everything we need to do will take at least 2 or 3 steps. For example: We need to re-hang the curtains in the office. Before we can do that, we need to buy some kind of glue/plaster to fix the curtain rods so they don’t come out of the wall again. To do that we need someone who know how to do this stuff AND speaks Latvian to find the time to go to the store with us.

But don’t think our lack of settling has meant that we have no visitors! On the contrary. Since we moved in a little more than a month ago, we’ve had about 15 different people here, 2 overnight and 3 for a long weekend! Don’t get me wrong, we like having people over, but I can’t wait to finally have our “Come see our house” party when people can finally see everything done.

It is happening slowly, though. I went to a second hand store not long ago (a friend owns it) and scored an awesome Secretary desk from the 1940s… for about $35. It looks really good in my bedroom. The same day I finally got my stove! There’s an electric cook-top in the kitchen now, but I not only hate cooking on electric, I always burn things. And we had no oven. Not good. Our new stove is gas on top and has an electric oven. Beautiful! Just gotta get the gas hooked up now. Gotta figure out when Janis has the time to go with us to buy the tank… and on it goes.

So, anyway, here are a few pictures from the inside of the house. Hope you enjoy. :)

Remember, you can click on the pictures and they will get larger. :)