We moved into our new apartment two Friday's ago, before the mad-Boston-rush of new tenants on Saturday September 1st. Adios Apartment 33, HELLO APARTMENT 4!!

Ladies and gentlemen, Apartment 4 is a whopping 900 square feet (more than double the size of our last two abodes) in a beautifully quiet area of Brighton near Boston College. Oh, we get the requisite number of passing students, outside the building, but I have yet to see *or hear* any inside the building. This is delightful. It's not that we don't like students, because we do. It's just that since Joshua and I are no longer students, we don't feel the need to live among them. No, we're young professionals living among young professionals.

Wood floors, lots of windows with fantastic views of famed New England foliage, a kitchen WITH a breakfast nook, a living room that's a totally different room from the bedroom... It's lovely. AND our furniture finally arrives from storage in Dallas tomorrow!! I have moved four times in the last three months and greatly look forward to feeling settled. No more living out of cardboard boxes. No, this place has closets. No more eating off of plastic plates with plastic utensils, because I'll have ALL of my dishes! This is the moment I've been waiting for since I was a little girl--the chance to decorate my own home. No moms or roommates chiming in their opinions. Although I will have my extremely-aesthetically-opinionated husband to deal with, but he's a piece of cake.

Pictures to follow.