You want to know what I am most excited about in regards to our new place to live?  S p a c e .  After crashing at my mom's tiny 2 bedroom apartment (that makes 5 people + a dog crammed in there) I am really looking forward to having some breathing space.

This is how much space we will have.

Oh ya!  LOTS of space.  And since we have loved living with my mom so much we are bringing her along with us.  She is going to get her first taste of country living which she is looking forward to.

That's right.  We actually found a place in the country.  This make me so happy.  This means we can give the kidlets some similarities to our past life.  I used to always live in the city but after marrying my husband I have become a country girl through and through.  I was expecting to have to live in the city this next year as we get our lives back on track.  So this feels like a wish come true.

The other amazing thing is the actual house we are renting.  I am not sure how we got so lucky but we are renting the most beautiful house.  Way more beautiful than anything I have ever lived in actually.  This makes me laugh.  We have gone from having no material possessions to living in what we have affectionately dubbed, The Palace.

This is an old stone farm house that has been renovated into what was to be a Bed & Breakfast.  I just love the mix of the old with the new.  Inside the house they have preserved the stone and it is exposed in the kitchen and living room so we can enjoy it from the inside too.  Since it was to become a B&B it has a luxury item that has my kidlets over the moon - ensuites in every bedroom!  LOL  Each bedroom has a full washroom attached to it so everyone has their own personal washroom.  WHAT?  The kidlets are going to be learning to clean their own washrooms mightly quick otherwise I am going to be spending all my days cleaning toilets instead of what I really want to be doing which is scrapbooking! :)

I feel like I must be dreaming 'cause it just seems too good to be true.  My house previously was half this size.  Must be some cosmic reward for the torture we have been through these last 9 weeks.  Or maybe it was all of you out there sending us all those positive thoughts - thanks!

This house has more space then we could possibly use (or have furniture for, lol) so guess what this means - a huge room for me and my scrapbooking stuff!  Not the dining room converted or a tiny corner at my mom's.  A whole, huge room with big windows with lots of sunlight that looks into the kitchen and the family room.  What?  Could a scrapbooking mom ask for a better location?  I can keep track of what the kidlets are doing, make dinner and get some scrapbooking done - all at the same time!  Wooohooo!

So there are lots of smiles here as we all dream of moving in.  Of course now I am packing again - oh how I hate packing - so my days are filled with trying to fit my life into cardboard boxes but it is all for a good reason.  Soon we can leave limbo behind and settle into life again.  :)

Huge smiles. :) :) :)