In Pennsylvania: If you Smell Smoke, Get Out

Part Last (well, for now)

MOVE #2 And, we're moving in about 3 weeks. Yes, the lesson here is NEVER, no matter what craziness happened with your move and how many people attest to the fact that where you're moving is nice, NEVER sign a lease before you've checked out the property. It's nice enough, but our particular town house was apparently the chain-smoker town house for years before us, and now that the smell from the recarpeting and repainting has dissipated, it stinks. Sadly, we get used to it until we're gone for a while (like to Gramma and Grandpa's overnight) and then it is terrible. We've been pretty frustrated about that, especially since in all our conversations with the property management company the only thing we cared about and asked about all the time was whether it had been smoked in. I think it is safe to say that the kids have picked up on that frustration a bit considering that Aspen asked me for a "freaking apple" tonight. Oops. So, we've moving directly across the street, to a non-smoky town house. Kind of a pain, but totally worth it. If all goes well, Aspen won't be saying "freaking" much longer. :)

ALL IN ALL We're glad we're here, we love being close to family, we miss the family we're less close to, we're hoping we can take some time for hiking sometime soon, and the leaves are already starting to change... *sigh*.