Moving Right Along

So it looks like we are finally set to move ahead. I can't believe the closing is a mere 12 days away. It was a bit touch and go there for awhile when my buyers and I both dug our heels in about the inspection issues. I won - mostly. I had to come up another $65 dollars but that's ok, it is still a victory for me. Now we are in the midst of furniture shopping and I am watching my savings dwindle to nothing. And we still have one completely empty room. I have absolutely no sense for colors and styles and such so you can only imagine what it will look like. I wanted to do one wall of the living room brick red. Just one wall. My designer and my husband pretty much vetoed that idea, and I handled it like any mature minded mother of two would handle this type of thing - I sulked in the corner and refused to give my opinion about anything else. I know my son would have liked it anyway.

I am getting so tired of living like a tornado has passed through my house. We can lose my youngest in the midst of the boxes! Luckily though, he has perfected his screech so there is no way to lose him for very long. He will not be underheard! And then the oldest likes to answer his screech as if they were birds talking to each other. Nothing like a little screeching to keep a party interesting. We are supposed to be having a garage sale on Saturday and that will hopefully help to get rid of some stuff. My mother is going to sell stuff then as well. With my luck, I won't sell anything and then not only will I have my stuff cluttering my house, but I will have HER stuff as well! It was supposed to be last Saturday but it was raining. We had several false starts - there are several families doing this garage sale thing at my urging and we collectively placed an ad. There were so many cars coming by, even in the rain, that at one point I found myself chasing cars down to see what they were looking for - Please! Take my crap! At one point though I had 5 perfect strangers standing in my garage and it just became too much for me. We decided to do it this weekend instead.

So the countdown has begun. All we can do now is keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best.