House Update March 14, 2007

By the way, I’m aware that none of you care about this as much as I do. 
It makes me feel like I’m making progress on my massive to-do list…

Thanks for all your get-your-bootie-in-gear comments. We close on our condo on the 28th, and close on our new house in Mboro on the same day. We will move into the new house that weekend, so bring your strong backs. Poor college people at our church–we’re mercilessly taking advantage of them to help us, including using a truck/trailer/driver from the church to hold all our junk for a few days while we’re in limbo. I love it. This is one great advantage of a small-ish church. Also one advantage of having the in-laws pretty close, because we’re crashing at their house for a week instead of having to get an apartment or hotel. It should be quite interesting.

We are so excited, and (of course) this was the very last house we went to see–and it wasn’t even in our plan for the day. Whoever took the online pictures did a crappy job, because I wasn’t all that excited to see it. However, once we got there, we were pretty sure it was the one. It is 2 years old, right off 96 in Mboro (good to get to Franklin), and on a dead-end street. It is white on the outside and yellow on the inside, in case you want to know–the opposite of a marshmellow peep. However, it had only been on the market for 7 days, and we knew they had lots of showings scheduled the next day. Luckily, we were able to get on it right away (awesome realtor, yippee) and put down an offer. I know waaaay more than I ever wanted to know about real estate, home inspections, termite letters, etc. Did we just skip all this when we bought our first house? I don’t remember any of this, and it was just 3 years ago.

So, give me a few days, and then we can actually entertain. I’m so excited. Well, actually, we’ll have to get some more furniture first. I have no friends who are above sitting on the floor, right?

Packing Boxes, round 38 March 14, 2007

Me labeling a packed box: “Baby’s Room (Blankets, Hanging Clothes, Diaper Genie, Large Diapers)”

Andrew labeling a packed box: “Office/Bonus Room: Random Stuff”

Sigh.

Hey, YOU! Motivate me, please. March 7, 2007

So, apparently God knew that I would quickly spiral into crazy-wife mode and cause Andrew to seriously question his wife-choosing skills if I had to keep my house in “realtor-showing” condition for very long. Unfortunately (in some small ways), this means that our house sold after just 11 days on the market. We signed the official deal today and close on the 28th (eeek). Now, where will this new fabulous house be, you ask? I have no idea! We’re still looking. We were sure of one new place, but then started looking again because we’re dorks. While I’m very thankful that the current house seems to be selling without a hitch, this means we (let’s face it–I) have three weeks to finish packing us and  find the new house of our dreams (that part will be mostly Andrew — I’m just in charge of rejecting what I think is ugly . This job is self-appointed). Although we’re open to the idea of an interim apartment/etc., it sure would be nice to just move once and get it over with. Send me your best motivational slogans and reasons to pack now, now, now. No, really–do it.

In Baby Girl news:
–We are starting to wean her from the pacifier. Lesson learned: we are more attached to it than she is. That thing sure is handy for plugging the flood of drool.

 –She has learned to spit and finds it delightful. Good thing she’s cute. This is seriously socially inappropriate and could impact her ability to interact with others. I am searching out a social-skills-training group for her.

–I plan to destroy my kitchen tomorrow making my first batches of baby food. I will probably need a solution for cleaning sweet potatoes off the ceiling, so go ahead and send that, too.

Off to bed I go. I feel old.