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Slowly but surely!

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Well, we're full-on living in Helsingør now! Look at our cute little mailbox! We started out slow, kind of bouncing between two homes. After we got the keys to our new house, we spent a couple of nights there, cleaning and sleeping on air mattresses and watching movies on the laptop. It was exciting and great. Maybe a little hard on the body... We brought the dog, of course, because he couldn't be alone for so long, but we waited a bit to introduce Marabel. Han was confused and nervous, but happy to be with us. It was challenging to work on the house after dark. In Denmark, people usually take the light fixtures with them when they leave. To my knowledge, this is not a regular occurrence in the U.S. Anyway, we had a light in the kitchen that the previous owners left, but there was no light in the dining room or the living room. We had my small flowerpot lamp and a plug-in light we borrowed from Harrison's bedroom at the rental house. Kaden had to skip baseball practice, we ...
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...And We're In!

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We got the keys! We have a house! It's been a long journey, and as I have said before, it's a little weird starting over, but the family consensus is that we are excited for our new home and we all feel like we will be happy here. Of course, there had to be some  drama, because otherwise, buying a house would've been dull, right? Basically, Storm Amy wreaked havoc on Helsingør. The awning was ripped off the puzzle store (Yeah. My new town has a freaking PUZZLE STORE!!), streets were flooded, boats were smashed in the harbor, the record store had to close, and, sadly, one of the rooms in our new house flooded. Lasse, the poor seller, called me on Saturday morning a week and a half ago saying that water had poured into one of the pass-through rooms between the old part of the house and the new part. The ceiling was ruined, the walls had begun to wrinkle, and the water had seeped into the laminate flooring. He immediately called Damage Control Services, who came out, dried up ...
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