Well … we did it. We are now homeowners and living in our new house! It was a nail biter, down the last minute. Our closing was set for 3 p.m. on a Friday and we were told we were approved at 11 a.m. on Thursday. Something weird about Ohio … we had to give the previous owners 15 days to be out. And they didn’t “pay rent”. I didn’t like that. I wanted IN IN IN. Their Realtor was not a pleasant person to work with so we had no idea when they were going to move.

We got a phone call a week later, on a Saturday evening about 8 p.m. that they were out and they gave us the code to the garage door so we could get into the house. RJ still had not been inside the house so we rushed over and were overwhelmed with what they left for us: their front loader DUO washer and dryer, the fridge that fit into the too-small spot for our side-by-side, a couple of bar stools and a patio furniture set. We had already purchased one on clearance so now we have two … which is fine, we have a family of 6 so this will allow for a few visitors to not have to bring their own chairs.

Moving is coming along quite nicely. Mom is completely out of her place … that was accomplished last weekend. Alex has been working hard at our old place to get things ready for one more moving day. He had a momentary freak out today when he looked in the attic … and saw that it was packed. Luckily, it only had a few things at the front and he got it all out and downstairs for moving day #2.

It will take us a while to clear out the garage, I am afraid. I had hopes of having a garage sale this fall but I don’t see that happening. I might be able to pull together something for homeschoolers to come and buy some of our books within the next month but I don’t see a full out garage happening unless I work about 5 hours a night, every night on it. I don’t see THAT happening.

Last night … Maggie was complaining about the crickets driving her batty as she was trying to sleep … ahhh, the lovely sound of the suburbs. I LOVE it. 🙂