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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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We Bought A House!

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We did it! We bought a house in Denmark. It's all ours! And, oh man, has this been a wild ride! There's a short version and a long version, so I'll write the super-abbreviated version first, and if you want to come along for that aforementioned wild ride, you can keep going beyond the summary! Summary: We found a house we loved dearly - a huge old Danish farmhouse built in 1777 (and updated a bit, of course) with a thatched roof, big exposed beams, surrounded by farm fields and wildflowers, and right across the road from the biggest lake in Denmark. We signed a contract for it, but the deal fell through . (We. Were. Devastated.) We looked at a bunch of other places and finally found a house that we liked quite a lot in Helsingør. We made an offer, they countered, and we accepted their counter offer. We're moving in on October 15th! << end of summary >> The long version: Chapter 1: The Farmhouse (or The One That Got Away) In October of 2024, Zac and I decided...
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Two Years in Denmark!

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Can you believe it?! We've been here two whole years. In some ways, it feels like just yesterday we were driving away from our house in Post Falls, and in other ways, it feels like we've been here forever. Our actual 2-year anniversary of living in Denmark was Monday, 04 August. Khloe and Harrison were at home, Zac and I were at work, and Kaden was in Germany at a baseball tournament, so there was no big celebration like last year. Honestly, last year felt like more of an achievement, anyway. * * * Since Harrison and Khloe were still in the country with us, we decided to celebrate a day early by checking another thing off of our Places to Go list: Stevns Klint! Stevns Klint is a UNESCO World Heritage Site about an hour south of where we live. Its main feature is a large cliff face that extends along the sea. The bottom of the cliff face is composed of chalk, and the upper layer of the cliff is limestone. Between the layers is a thin, dark gray layer called "the fish clay....
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