November 2009 archive
Homeless
I signed away our ownership of our home today… Bryan wasn’t even here for it because we weren’t planning to close on the house this early. He is still stuck in Utah fretting over all of this.
This is the house we brought two of our babies home to. The house where we planted our first garden. The house that produced tons of fruit in the yard and made me learn how to can stuff. The house that we learned how to fix bit by bit for the last 6 1/2 years. The house we have painted from top to bottom, inside and outside. The house we taught preschool to our kids in. On the street where two of our boys have learned to ride bikes. In the neighborhood with some of our best friends. The house we have called our home. Yep, I am kind of sad about that. I hope Killian, the woman who is buying our house, has some good experiences here. It is a good place to be.
The movers come tomorrow. This is an ending with a beginning right around the corner.
Posted by Ily on November 24, 2009 | Filed under: Family News | 1 comment
Whoops
It seems a few miracles were coming our way this fall.
Miracle #1: Bryan was offered a new job in Utah in September, he accepted, and started commuting to Utah in October. He has been staying at his grandparents during the week, house hunting in the evenings, and flying home on the weekends. I planned to move out at Thanksgiving with the boys into grandma’s with him so we wouldn’t be apart for too long whether or not the house was sold. I didn’t know how all the details would work, but I thought originally that Thanksgiving would be our moving weekend. I didn’t like the unknowns about that idea, but I knew that is what would happen.
Miracle #2: His company paid for the first three weekends home and gave him Fridays off without taking it from his vacation days so he could have a longer time at home.
Miracle #3: Our house was under contract for sale within one month in a down real estate market. We received an offer on October 30th.
Miracle #4: We agreed upon some houses when I came out to house hunt for three days in November. We made some offers, we negotiated, and now we are under contract for one home. My favorite of the three we made offers on.
Miracle #5: It has been taking 45 days to close on a house here in the Great NW. The buyer really wanted the home and said she wanted to close on the house by November 27th. We agreed to it, thinking there was no way it would happen and that we would have the house until mid December anyhow. We thought they would have to file extensions because the whole real estate system has been slow moving from offer to closing. At this point we decided it would be best to just let the kids stay in school the final three weeks until Christmas break and then move to Utah. We could stay with friends those last few days after we were out of our house.
Amazingly, they did not have to file extensions. WE HAVE TO BE OUT THANKSGIVING DAY. Whoops, we didn’t expect that. So now we are are back to the original plan of leaving at Thanksgiving. We found this out on Thursday. Wow, that was a shocker. We didn’t have movers scheduled yet. We have to sign on this Monday (EEK!) and the buyer takes possession of the house on Thursday.
Miracle #6. The movers can come on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Miracle #7: Bryan’s parents came into town to go to Melinda’s baby shower this weekend (Hurray for twins!) and have been able to help with the last few things we needed to get done that the buyer requested that I am not so able to do alone. They have also helped with entertaining Reece so I could run errands related to moving out of state without him. Thank you Murdocks! And Melinda, I am so sorry to steal your spotlight this weekend. I really did not expect too! We will have a fun party for you and I will try not to even think about the move.
Miracle #8: I have not died of anxiety yet.
Posted by Ily on November 21, 2009 | Filed under: Family News | 1 comment
Barack Obama came for lunch today
Today we had black beans for lunch. Knowing that my boys would not eat them of their own free will, I bribed them with Cheetos… For each bite of beans, they got a Cheeto. Reece held up his first Cheeto and said proudly “ Barack Obama! I’m eating his head.” And then he gobbled up the Cheeto. He did this several months ago too… has it been that long since I served Cheetos? And wow, does he have a good memory or what to bring that up again? Anyhow, for some reason he thinks our president is a Cheeto. Poor guy, I would hate it if people thought I was crunchy and covered in orange cheese powder all the days of my life.
For the record, I promise we have not been calling our president names to be a bad example to our kids. In fact, we hardly talk about him. We talked a little bit of politics at the table during last year’s election, but there was nothing about the candidates looking like Cheetos. I swear!
Posted by Ily on November 2, 2009 | Filed under: Family News | 2 comments
