Fall Update 2015

Wow, so much has happened in the past few months.  After putting in several offers, having two places fail their inspections, we are finally settling in at our new home in A section, Rohnert Park, CA.  Our backyard wall is on Southwest Blvd., and we are super close to the old Rohnert Park Jr. High, now known as Technology Middle School.

I forgot how expensive it is to get setup in a new place, yikes! We knew from the inspection, that even though the house looked really good from the work done by the flipper, it was still built in 1961 and the thermal scan on the walls showed zero insulation.  During the summer heat, our west-ish facing wall in the master bedroom (ha, see below)  felt like it was on fire.  Rather than post old newspapers like in the old west to our walls, our biggest single expenditure was having insulation blown in our walls and installed in our attic.  California's mild "Disneyland" fall weather has finally arrived, and I can't imagine how freezing our place would be had we not got the insulation.

So we are somewhat warmer as we sleep on the mattress on the floor.  Why are we sleeping so ghetto? Our beautiful (at least to me, too plain for Rebecca) wooden king-sized bed frame did not fit from the hallway into any of the bedrooms, so it is currently in our garage, awaiting our final sorting/organizing.  Once we have a good work space cleared, our neighbor Jose (who is a professional woodworker), offered to cut it down to a queen-sized piece.  We need a new mattress soon anyway, so hopefully we can finish plugging away really soon, as I’d like to also be able to park my car in the garage during the winter.  If not, I guess I will be scraping ice before work.  Why is it taking us so long? I think the core cause is that we have so much stuff from a 1800 sq. foot house (with a 800 sq. foot basement), that requires careful planning and storage to be able to keep it, working with a 1200 sq. foot house. 

It is still surreal that after after 10 full years in Colorado, we are back in NorCal.  It has been weird having to plan how to divide time between the two families for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Even weirder has been the super warm weather! All of our cold weather clothes are now in a giant box in the garage, contributing to the aforementioned space problem! Both of us would love to someday move back to Colorado, so I think we’ll hang onto that box, too.  Now where to put it?  

Unbirthday 2015

Today is the 3rd anniversary of our baby's due date.  Today will be a hard day to get through. I am glad that Rebecca does not have to work today.  If I had been at my current job more than a few months, I would have asked for the day off myself.

I miss you my child, and hope to hold you someday.  Until that day, I will remember you and try to keep faith in the future.