Hello.

We are still here. Packing up, up to our necks in moving stuff: packing, taping, throwing out, selling stuff, wanting to take a torch to all of it and just start new at our new home. Moving brings out the best in you, doesn’t it? It truly makes me never want to buy anything again. For now.

I’ve been uncovering L’s everywhere. Landon was so proud that he could write the first letter of his name and he went to town all over the house. Part of me wants to make him scrub them all off so he knows we don’t do that, and part of me wants to cut the drywall out and take it with me and treasure those sweet L’s forever. Emotions are all over the map here.

When we got our appliances, the installation guy said, “Girl! what are you doing getting a nice KitchenAid dishwasher and then a Frigidaire microwave??”

“I’m going to be back here in 6 months repairing this thing!” I laughed nervously, wondering what I’d done!

It’s actually been an awesome microwave, no issues for the past 3 1/2 years, and I have loved my dishwasher.

He also told me never to use Jet Dry in my dishwasher, only Cascade rinse aid. I asked him how much Cascade was paying him :) He swore they weren’t, and he’d seen many a dishwasher ruined by it. Hmmmmm.

Another service man came to replace my sister-in-law’s garbage disposal and told her never to use hot water when running it because it wears the gears down. I looked in my disposal manual and sure enough, it said only to use cold water. This isn’t a paid or sponsored post in any way, just thought it would be fun to talk about as I’ve been asked how I’ve like my appliances. They’ve all been great, but I despise plastic bins in refrigerators. Grrrrrr.

I would love to hear~do you have any tips or tales from repair men/women? Do you swear by one appliance brand, or do you just go for what the best deal is? 

First of all, I need to announce the winner of the Lowe’s/P&G Summer Done Bright prize box! In my 5 1/2 years of blogging, I have never had #1 win, but LOOK:

The first commenter won! Congratulations, Kathleen! I’ll mail out your prize box as soon as I get your info.

Second of all, we have BIG news around here.

We are moving our family of 7.

Across the country.

To Utah.

At the end of this month.