The Big Move!

Well, everything is as good as done for both selling our current house and buying a new one! After a blitz twenty hours of looking at houses (twelve of them!) last weekend, we put in an offer on our favorite, had a counter-offer back to us three hours later, and by 9:00 on Sunday night we had accepted and signed the offer. Everything has been happening so quickly that it almost seems surreal, and I have a feeling the next five weeks are going to fly by. Between packing and inspections and paperwork with our realtor and paperwork with the bank and paperwork with the utility companies--all on top of our "normal" stuff: work, meetings, doctor's appointments, birthday parties, bridal showers, eating, sleeping--things are just crazy around these parts. I've already had to reschedule a dentist appointment twice, and I'm not holding my breath that the new time I have scheduled is going to stick. But, in spite of all of the craziness, I couldn't be more happy and thankful. Never did we anticipate our house selling as quickly as it did (for as much as it did!), never did we anticipate getting as nice of a house as we did (and still within budget!), never did we imagine the process going so smoothly (if not a little rapidly). So I'll take a few weeks of craziness and some sleepless nights and the inevitable tension and stress for the luxury of being able to call this beautiful dwelling "home" in a mere five weeks!