Thanksgiving in the New House

What a great Thanksgiving and so much to be thankful for!  A beautiful new house, a beautiful family and great food- what's not to love about it.  Has to be one of my favorite holidays.

We Did It- We are moving in

It was Tuesday morning November 18th and the moving truck had arrived!  I sat down to begin the blog and got called downstairs with questions.  That was the last time I had a moment to spare.  We watched them load up the moving van and began to load up our cars.  At 2:30 the Van had left, we were putting Fred in my car and we were ready to depart Dallas.  It would have been much sadder if I was leaving the house never to return, but alas that was not the case since we hadn't sold the house yet.

Little Freddie did really well on the ride down.  I let him roam the car and after about an hour he settled down with the rhythm of the car and took a nap.  We got down to the new house and since we didn't have any furniture yet we had to spend the night in the cabin.  Fred wasn't sure what to make of all this and the first time he heard the train go by he just freaked.  He made sure I knew that Mr. Train was not our friend.  We went to our favorite Italian restaurant in McGregor, had pizza and a bottle of wine and called it a night.  The next day by 10:30 the movers had arrived, but there was an issue with our beds coming from Dallas and Mattress Firm had screwed up the delivery and SURPRISE no beds- yep one more night in the cabin.  

On Thursday morning I had to travel back to Dallas for a ribbon cutting at one of my properties with Prescott Group.  I got up and went over to the house to take a shower in our new bathroom.  The shower was very nice, with lots of hot water (cabin has a very small hot water tank in it and you learn to shower fast.  The trip to Dallas was uneventful and the ribbon cutting party was very nice.  I spent the night in Dallas at the house and let me tell you that was strange.  To be in my own house but have none of my belongings and my bed consisted of a mattress and box springs sitting in the floor of our old bedroom.  Yep, that was it, oh that and a lamp.  Caitlin had moved her stuff from storage into the main floor of the house and Alphie, her cat was following me around as if to say, "Hey where is that cat of your's? I miss him!"  The next morning I took care of some things and headed back to Crawford, with the car again loaded with odds and ends.  I stopped at a discount furniture place in Waco and bought a mattress and box springs for the guest bedroom and set the delivery for later that evening.  

The house was a welcome site even if it was loaded to the gills with boxes that needed to be unpacked.  I made up the guest room before going to bed that night because we were having our first house guests the next night.  Our friends Cindy and Scott Klingler came down to help us unpack.  They were a godsend!.  with their help we got the kitchen completely unpacked (with the exception of some boxes still in the man cave) and Scott and Jay got all his books unpacked- there was over a hundred books to be unpacked and put in the bookcases.  That afternoon we were going to smoke some ribs and chicken for dinner and I had used the stove for only the second time and made a mess of greens.  Well mother nature had other plans for the day.  At about 3:00 the skies opened up and we had a gully washer of a rain.  No way we could start up the smoker and it was so wet and muddy outside that to get to the car we had to put down flattened moving boxes and walk across those.  We ventured out for dinner- yes back to Luigi's for italian.  Only problem was, walking in the rain on these wet boxes that were sitting on top of mud.  you guessed it, I slipped the box slid forward and I landed in the mud on my butt.  I was quite a site, i looked like a poor excuse for a mud wrestler.  Everyone waited in the truck while I went back in the house to change.  The next day the sun came out, dried up most of the mud puddles and we were able to BBQ and use the shooting range.  We had a great time and the food was tasty.  I can't even begin to tell you how thankful I am that they came down and helped.  It was so nice because they are just the kind of people who jump right in and help.  There was no tell us what you want us to do or waiting for us, they just started unpacking and saying where should we put these or what do you think of putting these here.  It was the best!!