A Busy Week

Here is a rundown of the last week, it has been crazy:

Last Friday - work and get house ready for Scott's mom (J for short) and Aunt Martha (M for short) to arrive. Vacuum dies while working in guest room. First present of my Valentines's/Birthday week from Scott arrives - fleece vest.

Saturday - Morning: Scott and I take Erynn to IHOP for breakfast and go to Lowe's to get new vacuum and some other items for the cleaning weekend. Afternoon: J and M arrive, we have lunch and get started on cleaning the kitchen. M works mostly in doing touch up paint throughout the house. J works on the cleaning and in directing Scott and I around the house. Erynn sleeps. Evening: Pizza for dinner, more cleaning and staging. Second present arrives at home - $100 gift certificate to Sky Mall.

Sunday - Breakfast on our own. Morning: finish up staging and cleaning in all areas except the study (where the cats are living) and the master bedroom. J and M work us hard and leave around lunch time. Scott and I take a nap and then finish up what we can in the other rooms.

Monday - Work (a welcome reprieve from the house but it sure looks good). Pick up food on the way home because we are sure not cooking in the very clean kitchen.

Tuesday - Work and maintaining the tidy house. Third present arrives at work - mutliple tins of popcorn (those who know me know that this is a perfect gift.)

Wednesday - Valentines's Day; Work, visit with insurance agent in the afternoon to pick coverages for new house and go over extension of life insurance policies. Scott is determined to make us insurance and retirement fund poor. Visit new house and we now have sod in the front yard. At least we are starting to move along. Realtor arrives to sign paperwork on selling our house. Sign officially goes in the yard around 7pm. Fourth present arrives at work - lovely arrangement of flowers.

Thursday - Birthday, Off from work - Morning: met with carpet person who measured the entire house and went off to figure amounts. Erynn in daycare until lunch so I can set up the water, trash, power and gas for the new house. Also, took about half of our garage to donations. Lunch with Scott and spent some time with Erynn visiting friends at work. Received call from another realtor asking if she could show our house between 5:30 and 6:30. In shock since the house has been on the market less than 6 hours. Scott and I go to Red Lobster with Erynn for dinner to celebrate birthday and to allow the possible buyers to check out the house. While eating our realtor calls asking if they can have more time because they want to write up an offer. Well, of course, let's have dessert. Discussions insue via email back and forth and by 10pm we had accepted an offer for the asking price of our house and throwing in the refrigerator. One heck of a day! I get a new refrigerator (stainless steel) in the new house and we got the price we wanted all in less than 24 hours. Not bad for my 37th birthday! Fifth present on its way but do not know what it is. Mom and Dad send me flowers to the house.

Friday - Signing paperwork today, calling to get things setup for termite bonds, warranties etc. Will get to go this afternoon and pick the lighting fixtures for the new house. We close on the new house on February 28 and move that weekend and we will close on the old house on March 20. So first payment on the new house will be in April and the last payment on the old house will be in March. No double payments - yeah!

Guess you saw the picture of Erynn above. These were taken by her Nana (J) while she visited during the weekend.