SOLD!

On Saturday, we had a couple come look at our house, and our realtor called me either Monday or Tuesday to let me know that they wanted to come back for a second look on Thursday. The first words out of her mouth were, "Don't get excited...." which we really took to heart because this isn't the first time someone has come back for a second look. It's happened before, and nothing ever came of it. Well... this time was different!! The couple came back last night, and our realtor called first thing this morning. I knew that meant it was good news!! She said they were bringing over an offer to her office, and she would call me when she received it. Of course, they low-balled the offer, but Jayne told us to counteroffer. She said they were here at the house for a while last night, had brought other family members to see it, were really excited, and really wanted the house. That was definitely good to hear. So, we counteroffered, and then they counteroffered, and then we came back again pretty much accepting their offer but with a little change. SOOO.... assuming paperwork goes through and all of the other little details get worked out, our closing date will probably be June 27th!! Then I can really breathe a sigh of relief.

Overall, I think the house selling process has gone pretty well. Our house has been on the market for about 3 months which I think is a reasonable amount of time, and we weren't in a huge hurry. I didn't stay stressed out all the time like I thought I would (only on a few occasions when I knew someone was coming to look at the house and I didn't have much time to get it cleaned up!). I'd have to say that I'm not the best at cleaning, and having our house on the market has really forced me to keep up on the housework. I'm hoping I can continue that once we move into our new house. I'll try anyway! It's been nice having a clean house the majority of the time but a real pain knowing that the house HAD to be clean everytime we left because someone could call at any time and want to come look at it.

I must admit that I started getting sentimental again today thinking about leaving this house. I guess the plan for now is that we'll start looking for a house, and in the meantime, we will move in with my mom sometime before we have to close on this house. I know it's going to be so rough on my mom having to see us every day, especially Taylor! ;-) So, everyone be expecting us to call on you to help us move sometime within the next 3-5 weeks... haha!