ready for a break

What a weekend!
With the huge help of Chris's mom Kathy, also known as Nana, we got so much done around this house it is quite unbelievable. Kathy and I got started first thing Friday morning with the packing, cleaning and staging of three major rooms, the kitchen, dining room and living room. We de-personalized, de-cluttered, packed up, cleaned and staged. Oh yeah we also ate lunch, took care of Sam, played with Sam a bit and entertained two large dogs! When Chris got home we had just 20 minutes before the first real estate agent was coming.
The two meetings that we had on Friday night went well but Chris and I are still very confused on what to price the house and how all this is going to work. Hopefully by tomorrow we will have figured out the price, picked an agent and be ready to finish up the packing, staging and cleaning before we can list it. Still lots to do.
Anyway, Saturday we got up and got going again on packing, cleaning and staging more rooms. Our bedroom, closets and bathroom got done. Kathy cleaned, inside and out all the upstairs windows. We cleaned out the guest room closets a bit and Sam's closet. Chris took four large car loads of stuff over to a friend's house that has very generously loaned us space in her garage to store some of our stuff. Chris also replaced a storm door in the back of our house that was rotting and needed to be replaced. Kathy and I did some yard work and began working on the major project of our deck. We have decided that it needs some "sprucing up". So we started sanding it and getting it ready for a fresh coat of paint. It was an exhausting day.
This morning we knew Kathy needed to hit the road early so we started working even earlier and got the deck sanding finished, and power washed the deck. Chris replaced several pieces of siding that the previous owner had melted a bit with his grill, and we did some work straightening up the storage section in our basement. Kathy wasn't around for all of that but did help quite a bit with the sanding and watched Sam for us this morning so we could work.
We still have a ton of work to do around the house, the deck needs to be painted and then we have to clean and stage all the other rooms. Selling your house really is a massive endeaver. This all would not have been possible with Kathy, so THANK YOU SO MUCH!
The funny part of all of this is that we are now tackling projects that we have not thought we had the knowledge, skills or time to tackle in the five years that we have lived here. Or maybe we were just lazy, I don't know. But now we are doing things like replacing doors, caulking showers, fixing up decks and hanging siding! At least now we know we can handle more home repair projects than we thought and won't be scared of changing the things that we don't like with our next house.
I am so excited that in just a little while I don't have to think about the house or do any work for several hours....HARRY POTTER MOVIE HERE I COME! A good movie, great friends and then dinner out is just what I need after this long, busy weekend.
Hope you all are having a great Sunday.