Laundry, Clothes Lines, & a Chalkboard Wall

This past month has been so so busy! I'm excited to finally be slowing down & settling in.

We slept in our house for the first time on January 2nd, one month after we closed. We have absolutely LOVED being there & calling our little place 'home'. We did a lot of work painting & moving things & making our house livable, so once we were in there, we were really slow getting to the unpacking & putting away of things! 

It actually wasn't until last week that we started unloading our back bedroom, emptying boxes, moving more furniture over, & getting into the 'settling' stage. It's sometimes overwhelming to have so much stuff & to have no idea where it's all going to fit! Crazy how much you accumulate in so little time. 

When we moved, we packed all of our clothes/towels/bedding in garbage bags for easy transit. Today while the kids napped, I fiiinally took all of that out, organized it, & put it away - it was like Christmas morning, having not had most of my wardrobe since September! But goodness gracious.   So. Much. Folding. 

We have a washing machine in our kitchen & a dryer in our little utility closet outside. We need to change out a piece on our dryer for it to work, so after we've washed our clothes, we've been hanging them around the house to dry. Well, in our frugal ways (HA! I wish I were frugal.) we decided to try a clothes line outside. We don't have the right poles to set it up correctly, but we jerry rigged it for now & I LOVE it!! There's something strangely relaxing about hanging clothes on the line. Our neighbors probably think we're crazy, but I'm totally okay with that. ;)

Our kitchen is coming along, but has a ways to go! We've painted out cabinets & started to fill them, but need to get new hardware before we can put the doors back on. We still have lots of boxes to unpack!

Also, the best news (hehe ;)) - the office is cleared out enough that the kids can color on our chalkboard wall! We've had a couple of chalk parties because coloring on a wall is so stinkin' exciting. ;)

This little clothes line setup is pretty ghetto, but it gets the job done. ;) 

I have a bathing suit hanging, which I'm sure looks extra strange to the neighbors since it's February. ;) 

 That's it for my super random, rambling, house update!