Where We’ve Been….

Way back in late Spring early Summer, Nick and I started talking about moving. We always knew we’d eventually move, but somehow talking about it moved the time table up significantly (funny how that happens). One thing led to another and before we knew it our house was “on the market.” In fact, we had a “Coming Soon” sign in our yard on the day of Lu’s birthday party. Surprise! We’re moving! Maybe not the best timing, but we were ready, we were excited, we just knew that the first person who came to see the house would fall in love with it and buy it on the spot!

We were idiots… It was a simpler time…

Fast forward 4 impossibly long months of constant cleaning and straightening, painting, even staging, packing up the kids and heading out of the house at a moment’s notice, and we got the call, the call we’d been waiting for.

Let’s discuss that day a bit. It was Z’s birthday. Nana and Tata were in town and staying with us. Z’s party was early in the morning, so we got ready loaded up and headed to the party, then my realtor called (she usually only calls when it’s something serious, the run of the mill showing, she runs by us via text). She told me there was a couple who saw our house online, love it, and wanted to see it, and that it was the only one they wanted to see. Whoa, sounds promising, but we have guests, a birthday party, and were really planning on taking this weekend “off” as showings go. She said they were fine to wait until the next day, but when I ran it by Nana (she was in the car with me), she said we could pull it off, so we said they could come that afternoon.

The house was in worse shape than it had been in a while, and we brought home about 25 presents to, leftover cake, and 2 hyper children to add to the mix. Putting it back together was no easy feat, but we all worked together and got it done then headed to the pumpkin patch.

Nick and I had just left dinner to go to a movie, and Nana and Tata had the kids with them, when we got the call that they had put together an offer. I thought we were going to have to pull over so we could jump up and down and scream, but we managed to hold it somewhat together.

We had a contract by the next night, and then the real fun began…

Our house went from being immaculate every day to being a total wreck in the span of a few days. We’ve done repairs, purged, donated, packed, had moving trucks come (twice), just to get to this point:

It has been a wild ride, we have loved every minute of being in this house, but we are ready to move on, even if it is just to my parent’s house (for now).

And yes, ALL of our stuff is in my parent’s house, mostly in their second garage.

Nick is trying to see how little we can live on, I am trying to find a way to have all my stuff in the room we’re staying in, and these two are just tickled that they get to live at Nunna and Jido’s house…