As you know our house went up for sale last week on Thursday.  Our real estate agent set up a couple of appointments for Saturday.  Then he held our open house on Sunday which had a good turn out.  One of the appointments from Saturday came back on Sunday for a second look around.  Then on Sunday evening they gave us an offer for our house.  It was a good offer, pretty close to what we were asking for, so we accepted it.

So now we have to have the house inspection done.  We don’t know yet when it will be (they buyers have to schedule it), but it will have to be done by Sunday.  Once the buyers sign off on the home inspection we will feel pretty comfortable that the sale will go through.  The buyers will still need to have their loan approved- but they were already pre-qualified so it shouldn’t be a problem.  Although with our crazy economy, you just never know.

Our real estate agent has said he will continue to show our house though, just in case any problems do come up with the buyers we can hopefully have a back up offer.  So, I am still trying to keep our house as clean as possible but I am not stressing over it at all.

Anyhoo, please pray that everything goes smoothly!  I’ll keep you updated with what is going on.

I realize that it’s been over a week since I’ve posted.  And that must be some sort of record for me.  It’s not that I don’t have anything to say- because I’ve actually written several posts in my head- it’s the lack of time.

Anyhoo- our house if officially for sale.  Our agent listed it today… apparently Thursday is a good day to list houses.  Our agent is scheduling appointments for Saturday and our open house will be on Sunday.  I know this is not the best time to be selling a house so we are hopeful that it won’t take too long to sell.

In case you forgot- last week I asked all of you for advice about a center piece for my kitchen table and you all gave me some really great ideas!  I loved the fruit bowl idea- which was what most of you suggested- but I didn’t want to have to keep making trips to the store to keep my center piece full.  When my parents came up to help us get a few projects done last weekend my mom brought me a beautiful floral center piece to use.  See how lovely it looks?

The sign people came and put up our for sale sign today.  It looks so funny to see it in front of our house.  And even though I really, really want to move I felt a little sad when I saw it go up.  If we could just buy some land in the town we want to be in and bring our house with us… and also some of our neighbors… it would be just perfect.

Anyhoo, the center piece is on the table and the for sale sign is in front of our house.  Now we just need a buyer.

Some of you might know that we met with our real estate agent this week about selling our house (probably just those of you who know me on Facebook).  Since some of you have been asking me how it went (and by some of you, I mean two people) I figured I’d post about it.

Unless you’re new here, you know that we have wanted to move back to our home town for the last year or so.  Since Rich is working at home now, there is no reason we need to stay where we are.  After a year of talking about moving we finally decided that we are really going to do it.

I talked to our real estate agent (he helped us find our house when we moved here a little over 5 years ago and he was awesome!) last week.  And then he came over on Thursday to look around and to tell us what we need to do and to get all of the fun paperwork done.  He thinks our house looks great and we only have to fix one thing… which we already knew we had to do.  The tile on the floor in entry way of our house has started to chip, so we need to replace it.  Other than that- we are good to go.  Of course we still have to do things like wash all of the walls and that fun kind of stuff to make our house look perfect.  But we don’t have a whole lot we need to do.  If all goes well our house will be for sale in the last week of this month.  I will be sure to keep you all posted about what’s going on.

So- onto my advice question!  The real estate agent will be coming back next week (after our floor is replaced) to take pictures.  One of the areas he wants a picture of is our kitchen and he suggested using a great center piece on our table.  Here’s the problem- usually at this time of year I still have my Christmas decorations out (because I love them, not because I’m lazy) but I put them all away figuring that most people wouldn’t understand.  So, normally when I put my Christmas center piece away I can put out my spring center piece.  But it’s not spring yet and we still have snow.  So, what should I put on our table?  Something springy?  I’ve never been good at decorating or any of that kind of stuff, so I would love some tips and advice for something pretty to have on our table.

And also- how in the world do I keep my house spotless with a 2 year old?

This past weekend Rich and I went on a weekend getaway.  This was the first time we had left Hailey for more than a few hours.  I was nervous about leaving her but I knew that it would be good for Rich and I to get away.  So, with my parents watching Hailey we headed off on our little trip.

The first night I worried about Hailey and I couldn’t sleep very well.  When I talked to Hailey on Saturday morning and found out she was fine and having a blast I was able to relax and enjoy the rest of our trip.

Me and Rich standing on the frozen lake.

I have never seen such a huge snowman so we had to stop and take a picture of him.

We had a fantastic trip and Hailey had a great time with Gramma and Pa.  I’ll be posting some of the pictures my dad took while Hailey was with them.

On Sunday when we got back we had a very nice dinner to go to for my Father-In-Law’s 70th birthday.  We don’t often see everyone on Rich’s side of the family and it was so nice that everyone was able to get together.

Monday night my parents watched Hailey again and Rich and I went out on a nice little date.  It was so wonderful to get to spend so much time with Rich! 

Now we’re home now and I’m sad to be back.