flashes before your eyes

Life has been hectic, busy, complicated, and downright crazy. We put an offer on a house, they counter-offered within our range, we accepted. Now to sign more papers, get the home inspection scheduled, and barring any major disasters... it's full speed ahead. Dude. That happened fast. I'm still kind of in shock and denial. Once we've got house stuff out of the way we can focus on getting hitched, making babies, planting gardens - oh my! I'm so gobsmacked by the tangible reality of it all that I can't put together a proper post or write more than a few coherent sentences. So I give you pictures...

I made swedish meatballs from scratch for the first time and just about died, they were so good.

The fact that the house stuff is finally REALLY happening has sent me into a tailspin of cleaning and organizing. Nothing is safe. This is my kitchen when I was halfway through doing the cupboards.

The fridge was a jumbled mess. It looked amazing afterwards, but of course my crazy self didn't take a picture of that.

Seth's empties that were pop-off caps (instead of screw-off, har har). He gives these to his mom for bottling cider.

I beat Seth's ever-loving ass at scrabble again. Suck on that.

Silas has been taking breakfast in his room more often lately. There's comics to draw, people. His oral surgery went swimmingly! Now we're just working through the last of the antibiotics and trying to stop him from sneaking gum.

I made proper beans on toast last week with a cut up fried egg in the middle! I was apprehensive, but in hindsight I don't know why. It was delectable.

A dear friend dropped off a giant bucket of dried lavender for me to use in my sachets! I am forever grateful, as lavender is the most expensive ingredient in the mix. I've de-stemmed about half of it so far... it's A LOT of lavender.