One more day closer to being back to living in a house of our own.

Today, we finished painting most of the rooms. My parents, Christine’s dad, and Christine were there to paint. I installed the new dishwasher. My brother and I brought up the fridge and washing machine from my parents’ house.

The new carpet gets put down tomorrow morning and the plumber is coming to hook up the gas line for the stove.

Once these things are done, I’d say the house is minimally habitable. There will still be a few things to be finish up, of course. The wood floor needs to be finished — and I’ll try to do that tomorrow while the carpet guys are there. The master bathroom needs to be painted. And, finally, we need to put floor tile down in the two bathrooms.

But, I can be a little less hasty about these things. I need to get back to concentrating on my work to make sure that we have money to pay for all this stuff and to have a half-decent Christmas.