a Hail Mary pass...

Most of you probably already know by now but we finally moved!! < Insert round off back handsprings here > It was a very long, drawn out stressful process that I swear took a few years off of my life. Let me just say that a buyer's market in real estate sucks. And I was also a home buyer and I still think it sucks. Some people were down right crazy and we had two different couples ask if we would come down 40 and 60 thousand dollars from the asking price after we had just dropped the price drastically. Of course we can. Obviously Ed McMahon and Publisher's Clearing House just pulled up in my driveway with my winning check. Why don't I just give you the house? People are crazy. We had someone ask us to lease purchase the house. We finally got an offer from a pre-qualified buyer and signed the paperwork on Sunday night. On Monday evening, I got a call from another realtor asking to show the house. She showed it Tuesday morning, Tuesday afternoon we found the "pre-qualified" buyer wasn't so qualified and wasn't going to be able to re-run her loan paperwork until March. Jason was furious and I was literally sick to my stomach. We had been so close. On Wednesday morning my phone rang again and the couple wanted to come back through our house again! I started praying, pleading, begging that this couple would buy our house. That it would finally be our turn and this mess would be over. I was tired. The kids were tired. The last week the house was on the market, I showed it six times. I had to wake the kids up twice from their naps and set them on the floor asleep just so I could make the beds. Ugh. I'm so glad that it's over and that part of our life is behind us.
We had back to back closings last Friday and moved into the new house that afternoon. There are tons of little kids in the neighborhood and we love it so far. Amelia's friend is our backyard neighbor and they have already played together a couple of times. My parents came in to help us get settled and my Dad has been painting bedrooms. He and Jason are going to put up a new swing set this weekend. Thanks to everyone that fed us while we were transitioning and helped us move and settle into the new house!