Yesterday was the day we turned in our keys to Via Mazzini. I had previously wondered whether it would be bittersweet, but truly it was only sweetness in my mouth as I left the meeting with the owner's daughter. There was nothing wrong with the place, really, but it wasn't ours, and it didn't have our things in it, and it wasn't to our taste, and somehow it wasn't our home ever despite our 7-year tenure.
Plus, we just love our new home! We'll still see our old landlord in town (although he has sadly gone downhill rapidly over the last few months), and we have such a lovely space in which to continue to enjoy Todi...and where we can host our guests! It's exciting to see our visitors' calendar rapidly filling up over the next 9 months.
The last two weeks have been a ton of work. Aside from the obvious of a basic move, I took the time for a seriously deep clean: dismantling the dryer, taking apart all sorts of things, vacuuming in every conceivable location, windows, baseboards, tops of doors, window trim...you name it, we/I cleaned it. Add to that the unpacking in the new place and the continual moving of items from one provisional location to the next pending the arrival of new-to-us furniture, and you have one exhausted family!
And that is why we haven't blogged in a while.
Love,
Alexandra
Plus, we just love our new home! We'll still see our old landlord in town (although he has sadly gone downhill rapidly over the last few months), and we have such a lovely space in which to continue to enjoy Todi...and where we can host our guests! It's exciting to see our visitors' calendar rapidly filling up over the next 9 months.
The last two weeks have been a ton of work. Aside from the obvious of a basic move, I took the time for a seriously deep clean: dismantling the dryer, taking apart all sorts of things, vacuuming in every conceivable location, windows, baseboards, tops of doors, window trim...you name it, we/I cleaned it. Add to that the unpacking in the new place and the continual moving of items from one provisional location to the next pending the arrival of new-to-us furniture, and you have one exhausted family!
And that is why we haven't blogged in a while.
Love,
Alexandra
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