I was beginning to think that this would never happen- but our closing is scheduled for tomorrow.  Our mortgage broker has been one problem after another.  He has frustrated us to no end.  But that will all be in the past after tomorrow.  I keep waiting for someone to call and say, “Oh wait… we need one more thing.”  So, we’ll see if it really happens- but as it stands now we will finally be closing tomorrow afternoon!  My parents have been wonderful to let us stay with them for 2 months instead of a few weeks.  We want to do a few things to the house before we actually move it, so it will be probably be another week or so before we actually move.  But as of tomorrow we will finally have our new house!

In case you haven’t noticed I haven’t been doing  a lot of posting lately.  I don’t know why.  Most days I just don’t want to.  And I can’t think of anything to say.  I know I used to post every single day- what in the world did I talk about?  For some reason these days when I have few minutes free I want to get on Facebook rather than my blog.  But I thought it was time for an update.

A few weeks ago when we went to look at houses again we didn’t find anything we wanted.  So since it had been a few weeks since we put an offer on the first house we liked, and that house was still available, we decided to put in another offer.  We went a little higher than we did the first time- and the sellers came down a little from the price they were stuck at before and we found an amount we agreed on.

Since we are closing on our house that we currently own weeks before we’ll be able to move into the new house we are going to be staying with my parents for a couple of weeks and storing our stuff in their garage.  So, 2 weeks ago when we went back to have the inspection done we decided to rent a medium sized truck and move part of our stuff to get some of the move done ahead of time.

Hailey was thrilled to see “the big lellow truck” in the driveway.  And even more thrilled when she got to jump around in the back of the truck.

Here is Rich with his lovely big blue dog that he won several years ago at an amusement park.  I was really hoping the dog would not be making the move with us- so imagine my surprise when I saw where the dog was riding.

The inspection went well- the house is in good condition.  Now we are just waiting for everything else to go through smoothly.  This weekend we will be moving out of our house and staying with my parents while we wait for the closing on the new house.

So I am busy this week working on packing up the rest of our house.  And also busy worrying about the swine flu.  What have you been up to?

Today I am thinking of those who were effected on April 16th 2007.  I am thankful that my family was safe that day.  I pray for those families who lost a loved one and for those whose lives were forever changed.

…until we close on our house.  And we do not have a new house lined up to move into.

We have been staying at my parents house again, looking for a new house to buy.  We found one we liked and put an offer on it.  At the same time someone else was making an offer for the same house- and it was a better offer.  So, once again we lost out on a house we wanted.  We have looked and looked and I don’t think there are any other houses left for us to look at. 

Today we are heading back home.  We have some paperwork to take care of for the closing of our house and a few other things to take care of.  I am going to get lots of packing done.  Then we will be heading back to my parents house to do some more house hunting.

Apparently we sold our house in buyers market and we are trying to buy a house in a sellers market.  And it is soooo frustrating and discouraging.

Hailey turned 2 1/2 this week and I’ll be posting about that as soon as I have a few minutes to write that post.  Have a great weekend and a Happy Easter!