Wow. this month is just zipping by me. The house proceeds covered the legal fees, with enough left over to pay off the visa and repay the personal loan that i took to cover TheEx's lack of support payments. There's even enough left over to go to a movie this weekend -- hoorah!
At home, we have been getting very grounded and focused. Putting in the Rose Bed seemed to unleash some weird-but-cool nesting energy, and then once the boys were out of school, the house truly became our haven. The hammock is my refuge, and I confess that I have come to rely on the calm pace of country living. There are spots picked out for the library, the hen house and the club house, and we went on a family trip to the hardware store and had a ball getting all the information on how much supplies will cost. The boys and I poked around the Pine Forest a bit, and they want hammocks to hang amongst the branches, which sounds like a perfect idea to me. They started climbing the trees and you should have seen how high they got. At one point, i had to actively remind myself of what it had been like for me as a little girl, and to quell my heart rate as i watched Graeme get higher and higher. He is quite the little scrambler.
The restaurant plans are at the put-up-or-shut-up point, and i'm as neverous as i am excited. I'm looking forward to going ahead with this, and have an awful lot personally on the line for the success of this venture.
note: the deer have been eating all my lovely flowers. I actually staretd to cry, because i've turned into such a dip about what we plant. I'm thinking of seeing if i can get someone out to look at the havoc and see if we can get some out of season damage permits.
