Playing catch-up a little here. Before Thanksgiving the builders told us the house would be done by December 4th. When I came back from the break they said we could move in on December 7th. Then on the 6th, they told us the 8th. We decided to just have Rebecca and the children come on the 8th no matter what so they couldn't keep postponing on us and because the children needed to start school. Rebecca's mom drove along to help out, and Rebecca said that they drive went really smoothly. They listened to the first Percy Jackson book on the way and that kept their attention the whole way. When they got to Pocatello though the house still wasn't ready. We talked to the builders and they offered to put us up in a hotel for three nights just so they could finish everything up to get all the inspections in and get the certificate of occupancy. We were fine with that - at least we were all together!
Sleeping in the hotel room.
Even though her siblings were all on the floor, Agnes thought she deserved a bed all to herself.
The hotels weren't all that bad. We were pretty crowded and some of the children were always sleeping on the floor, but there was a swimming pool and a hot tub in both places which the kids loved, and the place we stayed in for the second two nights had warm cookies at night and free breakfast in the morning. It reminded me of when I first moved to Washington with my family growing up. We stayed in a hotel for a few weeks before we could finally move in to our home.
We have been in our house for a week and a half now and have been loving it. They are still working on small things and it seems like someone comes in almost every day to finish up a job, but it is getting there. We also don't have furniture yet, but we are working on it. Pretty soon it will really start feeling like home.
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