{"id":780,"date":"2015-04-15T01:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T01:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betondinner.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2018-02-11T01:33:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T01:33:05","slug":"that-time-i-had-to-sell-my-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/that-time-i-had-to-sell-my-house\/","title":{"rendered":"That time I had to sell my house."},"content":{"rendered":"

Big news – this summer Bet On Dinner will have a new base of operations! Our family is moving to Wilmington, NC, and all of a sudden it’s happening\u00a0soon.\u00a0<\/em>The past two weeks we’ve been up to our necks in getting-the-house-on-the-market projects – lots of paint and general sprucing up, and plenty of wishing we had spread some of these projects out instead of cramming them into a two week marathon. But we had a new baby, man. Or at least, she was new 8 months ago. Alas, I\u00a0would rather watch a show after the girls go to bed than bust out the paintbrushes, so there were a *few* lingering things to do.<\/p>\n

So there has been no blogging, no Netflixing, and precious little cooking. We blew through our freezer meal stash in the first couple of days after converting\u00a0our kitchen and dining room into a DIY project staging area, then turned to our good friend pizza for most of our sustenance.\u00a0Our three-year-old was literally composing spontaneous songs of joy<\/em> while eating pizza for the second night in a row.<\/p>\n

But – our house is under contract (!!!!!! cue trumpets and hallelujahs !!!!!!) and things should normalize for at least a few weeks, so I’m going to try to find my cooking motivation. I know it’s around here somewhere.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the girls and I are visiting my mom and I’m sorting through my childhood bedroom. You can see my mom’s sweet doggie Zola up there with the biggest stuffed dog ever, aka what I was spending my money on when other girls were buying makeup and, you know, learning how to blow dry their hair in a way that doesn’t involve using your hairbrush to hold your book open so you don’t have to stop reading (just me? still? at 31?). I thought you might enjoy a peek at the awesomeness hidden away in my closet. Let’s just say freezer meal hoarding is the most benign of my stockpiling\u00a0tendencies. Here’s a small sampling:<\/p>\n