Truly, I haven't died...

An update in bullet-point form, just to summarize the last month or so:

• We found, and made an offer on, a house at the beginning of May
• The offer was accepted, but we had to scramble to meet some requirements for our mortgage loan, due to using the VA option (such as getting carpet installed in the property, and scraping and painting peeling window and roof trim)
• This rather unbalanced my work schedule, mental health, housework, and of course, LW's finally-tuned schedule
• We closed on the house the second weekend in June, and proceeded to move.
• Moving with a two year old, even two towns over, is a major hassle.
• Did I mention that LW turned two in the midst of this chaos?  We're bad parents.  We didn't do much to celebrate.  I gave her chocolate icecream with a candle on top and called it good.  But we're planning a dual house-warming/two year birthday party for next month.
• After being in the house about a week, we discovered a section of mold in the basement.
• Panic ensued, but it looks like it'll be ok with some fairly limited cleanup.
• My mind is also full of all sorts of quotes and such for other projects that need to happen.
• Also, I managed to plant our rather minimal garden.  I will take pictures of many things soon!
• Not much knitting lately.  I finished a baby shower present for a friend of mine, but then the house saga began.  However I now have a dedicated office/craft room, so that will help. 
• Of course, there's little time to knit, what with hanging blinds and needing to paint, and still unpacking, and such.
• I look forward to a time six months from now when I'm no longer freaking out about the possibility of mold in our walls, or an unknown pest invasion, or that my daughter is slowly being poisoned by lead paint.  Seriously - I think it would have been easier to live at a time when we weren't so well educated... a little lack of knowledge can actually be good for you...

Anyway, that's what's going on here.  I want to get back to writing more regularly, I really do, but my to-do-list is seriously a mile long!  When I get caught up, though, I'll post some pictures as well as share the story of how we found our house (and the ups and downs and all arounds of the process).  It's a compromise - it doesn't have the couple of acres of "room for a horse", rather is in a suburban village and has about 1/6 of an acre little tiny lot.  But there is a big enough back yard, and we have a small garden, and the neighbors so far seem nice, and we're walking distance to lots of good things (yarn shop, great library with fabulous kids section, shopping complex, parks, a church, etc), so it's not a bad compromise all and all.  And, my husband only has to drive 15 minutes to work, instead of the 45 it would have taken from anywhere that did have room for a horse.  Evidently a horse isn't a part of the current "blessing-package" :)

Hope you all are well!  Pray for us, in this transition, please!