But this is not what I had in mind. 

Our rent house became SUDDENLY vacant. So all of our home improvement plans for our current house are on hold while we quickly repaint, patch and clean the old house. 

I wonder how our family of five squeezed into it all those years ago. Truthfully I know the answer being the kids were half the size they are now. Hard to believe it was almost 7 years ago that we moved here to Conway. 

Seems forever ago and like it was yesterday all at once.