{pretty, happy, funny, real} Did I mention we’re moving?

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I imagine you gathered, from the whole selling-the-house business.

We’re beginning to wrap things up here in Oklahoma (just had our last first tornado watch of the season. Ah, the nostalgia is setting in already…), and have orders to our next station — North Carolina!

That’s right, we’re heading back to the East Coast this summer, and are looking forward to living near the ocean again, and within (long, but reasonable) driving distance of family for the first time since before we had kids.

Our house has been on the market for about two weeks now, and we’ve had enough showings to keep us on our toes, but not quite enough for our house to just be clean all the time. Is that a thing? Clean all the time? I suspect it isn’t.

In fact, we continue to approach maximum mess-ability over here, since Eleanor is fully mobile (and quite the explorer), Molly has finally learned how to consistently open doors on her own, and as helpful as Pippo can be, there’s only so much spontaneous tidying a 5-year-old boy can be expected to be responsible for.

At least the two older ones can actually execute a pretty decent Blitz when they put their minds to it. We have done our best to associate house showings with ice cream and other fun to help in the motivation department.

Still, between the actual blitzing and vacuuming out the door and the knowing that at any moment we could get an hour’s notice to have the house ready, this all consumes more energy, mental and otherwise, than I hoped I could get away with it consuming. (A friend was telling me about having her home on the market, and realtors appearing at her door at no notice with clients, or calling from five minutes away. And she has more children than I do! I think I would go crazy.)

My consolation is that several times a week, we come home to an absolutely spotless house. I walk in and think, “This is a great house! I would totally buy this house!”

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