The Hard-to-get-a-degree's: Moving to Boiling Springs

We are moving! We got the new place on Friday and don’t have to be out of the old place until the following Sunday, which gives us 10 days of overlap. With Chris in one of the toughest blocks of med school, me in busy season, and me being 34 weeks pregnant, we thought it best to overlap quite a bit. I went over Saturday and painted Lottie’s nursery a medium gray (I used Sherwin Williams No-Odor or VOC paint, a mask, and gloves just so everyone knows). Sunday I moved the kitchen to the new house. The kitchen is the best part of the new place to me—it is huge! Here are the things we are super pumped about with this new place:

- It is smaller. We don’t fill the current place at all, and I don’t want to gather more to fill it. A smaller place will hopefully keep our clutter-gathering to a minimum.

- It is newer—built in 2006 instead 1927, which provides a ton of benefits like real closets, bigger bathrooms, a more sensible floor plan, moisture-free/mildew-free rooms, and-wait for it-insulation!

- The laundry room and pantry are inside the house, so no more going to get your cereal in the morning in a pantry below freezing. I also will do the laundry more frequently since I won’t have to bundle up and go into the frigid winter to move clothes between the washer and dryer.

- It has dry, well-ventilated bathrooms—our towels may last longer than a day before smelling mildew-y.

- The house is evenly heated and cooled—no more bedroom that is 104 degrees and a living room that is 55 degrees at the same time.

- It has 2 bathrooms! No excuses not to visit us now!

- It has a 2 lane drive-way, so no more juggling parking of the cars.

- It is in Boiling Springs, which is a suburb of Spartanburg. Even though this is further from VCOM, it feels much safer than Spartanburg.

The list goes one and on, but those are the main things. Here are a couple of pics of the new place. These aren't great--I will try to get some better ones later.

Kitchen