Moving...

We realized that we would have to move twice because our building contract was contingent upon the sale of our current house and they couldn't start building the new house until our house sold. Although they are building these houses pretty quickly, we knew there would be about a minimum of 2 months that we would have to live somewhere else until our new house was finished.

We had thought about staying in an apartment during that time, but Mamaw Linda and Papaw Ron offered to let us stay with them so that's what we decided to do. That way the girls would definitely be in the Monrovia school district before school started, and we could save some money in the process. So we were very busy packing up the stuff we had accumulated in the 12+ years we lived in our house and also trying to help Mamaw and Papaw empty and clean their spare bedroom and den so that we would have room to move our beds in. It seemed like the packing and cleaning would never end.

The closing of our house was tentatively scheduled for July 15th which gave us around 30 days from the time we accepted their offer until closing. The buyers agreed to give us 10 days after closing to be out of the house. So, we packed everything we didn't need on a daily basis and hoped that the deal didn't fall through. I kept waiting for "the shoe to drop" with the inspection... the appraisal... and luckily, it didn't. The inspection went well and there was NOTHING we had to fix. The house appraised for more than they bought the house for, and once the buyers mortgage stuff was all settled they called and asked if we were willing to close a few days early on July 12th. We agreed.

We moved pretty much everything except for our beds, clothes and other essentials into storage and on Saturday the 17th, we moved our beds into Mamaw and Papaw's house and spent our first night at their house. Over the next few days we finished up getting everything out of the house and cleaning it up. We officially turned over the house to the new owners on Tuesday, July 20th.

Our house was officially sold, we were moved in with Mamaw and Papaw and now maybe the chaos will slow down a bit and we can catch our breath from this whirlwind that started about 8 weeks ago.