Home, Home on the Range.... I mean, Tenth Green!

We have now moved into our new house in Omaha.... Sort of. I have unpacked countless boxes, and put things away in massive cabinets and the walk-in pantry. I am so overwhelmed with all the space! In Boston we had to be very judicious with the things we acquired, and how we organized them. Serving dishes would be piled on top of crock pots, on top of cookie sheets. Here everything has a place and lots and lots of space. Maybe I could get used to this??...????.......

But the house is very nice. It's a 4 bedroom one and a half story house with a three car garage. That means that the master suite is on the first floor and the other three bedrooms are on the second floor. The kitchen is granite, stainless with birch cabinets and there's a really cool mud room off the garage with a bench and all sorts of cabinets and hooks and a coat closet for all that junk we seem to drag home. There's a big laundry room and we got one of those sanzy new high efficiency washer dryer sets. Pretty cool if you like that kind of thing.

The house also has some neat kid things . The girls' rooms are connected by a "Jack and Jill" bathroom. I call it a "Soph and Maggs" bathroom. They also have a loft on their floor that looks down on the great room. This is the "play room". It's nice because I can hear and see them without sitting in the sea of toys. This will do until we finish the basement and who knows when that will be.

There's also a guest room with private bath, of course, and we have a den that we're using as a living room with a pull out couch so there's lots of room for you all to come and visit me!

Since we needed to furnish this entire house (given that our stuff is back in Boston since we are renting that house furnished) I looked on Craig's List to find used furniture. I didn't find anything in Omaha except yucky OAK which would never do, so I started looking on Craig's List in Boston and lucked out. I found a guy giving away basically his whole apartment full of stuff. He had bought a place at the new Ritz a few years ago and I guess it came furnished. Now he was moving to New York and didn't have the space and wanted to give it to one person who would come and take it all. So we now have a new sleeper sofa, 3 chairs, 2 ottomans, 2 entertainment centers, a kitchen table and chairs, a king sized bed, countless end tables, a coffee table and a bunch of lamps. It was my lucky day! Our house almost looks like a real adult's house!

I also went up and checked out the country club. We live on the tenth green of an Arnold Palmer course, and I am really looking forward to spring. The Club is putting in a pool complete with kid pool and it's a short walk from our house, down the cart path. Hence I am really looking forward to spring! Hopefully I will see what everyone else calls the suburban dream.

So, I am really trying. I miss Boston every single day, but I feel like I am giving this a good, honest chance. If it's at all possible for me to be happy in suburbia, then it's here, where I'm living now... on a golf course and country club with my three stall garage in my new house. Yawn.......