Hey Patty....how is the move going?

[TerriL]

I'm so excited to see pictures of your house all furnished!  :)  Bring them on! 

[Leslie]

really.  Can we come for Easter?  I'll make pieroghi and babka. Please , huh, can we? can we?

[PattyInAK]

Thanks for taking an interest.  I stayed home today to move some more stuff.  Got our upstairs at the old house about 95% empty.  Moved the boxes and stuff over to the new place and put it away in various closets and the pantry.  Its so nice that we are able to tuck it all away somewhere out of sight until I can get to the unpacking.  When I drove up to the house today, the siding was complete on that particular side.  It looks like a house!!!  Jeff and his son, my nephew, Derek were there.  Derek is such a great 14 year old kid, he directs me as I back up my Escape full of stuff, since I can't see, and then proceeds to unload everything onto the front porch and I put it into the house.  Poor Jeff, his help baled on him, they won't be available to help put the rest of the siding on the house, so he has to do it alone.  His right hand man, Todd, took a months vacation and went to Texas.  Actually, Todd should be back soon.
Dan and I want to find a nice little gift to give Jeff at our big open house on June 17th.  Since Jeff can afford anything he wants, I have to be creative.  I know that Jeff and my sister go to a lot of things where you have to dress up.  So I was thinking of trying to find him a tie tack -- like a little gold hammer with a tiny diamond in it.  Just a token gift, but a classy one.  What do you think?
I would love to have everyone come for Easter, especially if Leslie is volunteering to make pierogi.  What do you fill yours with?  We grew up on them and ours were filled with potatoes and cheese.  And what is Babka???
Will have more pictures soon, Terri.  Tomorrow we break in our new woodstove.  Dan has all the particulars, we have to build a small fire first, which he will do in the morning, then late afternoon we can have a medium fire.  Then tomorrow we can have one that really rips and roars.