Journey Continues

It has been quite a journey!  We are finally back in our house and mostly settled.  I can't thank our contractor enough, he did an excellent job.  He had to deal with an idiot non responsive insurance adjustor, who took weeks to pay him and still got everything done in a reasonable amount of time. 
So here are the highlights: we lost our tenant- but found a new one; most of our stuff was saved but damaged by Service Master.  The company who packed out our house, Service Master, lost a lot of our stuff but recently "found" it.  They lost my husband's suits, our area rugs, damaged the furniture and walls moving things back in- really professional.  The company that took our electronics, Restronic, did an excellent job.  Our electronics have never been cleaner, but it did stink to have our new Mac in storage for 4 months.  We got our cats back at Thanksgiving, my parents had them for the past 4 months.
We have been very busy with the holidays coming up.  Last weekend was my sister's wedding, it was beautiful, but really cold in New England.  This coming weekend is my husband's company holiday party.  I missed mine because I caught strep on the flight to New England.  Then we are flying to visit my in-laws on the West Coast for Christmas and we'll check out my sister and her family's new place at New Years. 
My sister who took a new job on the West Coast; over here she lived in a 3 bedroom 2500 sq foot home, out there it'll just be a little 800 sq foot condo, so she had some extra furniture to help us replace what was lost.  Also, my friend who I traveled to Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece this summer is moving back home to Hawaii and it is simply too expensive to move her furniture there.  She looked it up and it would actually be cheaper to buy all her furniture brand new again than to ship it.  And she had some nice furniture- a Crate and Barrel sleeper sofa with ottoman and a dining set.
We haven't had to buy too much stuff, which is good because all the repairs and living away from home have really set us back.
I'll post some pictures of the renovations and *new* furniture.
I need to take some photos of the house now that we've unpacked and I got my new Cannon Rebel for early Christmas!

Downstairs

Dining Room

Sun room with *new* couch

Decorated for Christmas :-)