Sold

We accepted an offer on the house and are quite happy to have the house officially sold. We still have to get to settlement, but it would seem that there isn't anything that will stop that from happening. Overall the house sold is just about 1 month, which is wonderful in this market. We feel quite blessed by that.

Now things step up a notch in the "moving along" arena. Tim is planning a trip to Ohio (most likely a week from today) and will buy a house and hopefully find a job too. We've been watching several homes since May on some realty sites and have seven good possibilities. Tim has talked to a few mortgage companies and we are in good shape in that regard, so it will be a matter of actually looking at the houses and putting together an offer. Tim is a bit anxious about buying a house without me there (understandably so) but it really does seem best all around to have just him go. I can tell much from the pictures online and after 18 years of marriage, I trust him to make a fine choice. Each possibility has good and bad, so it is really just narrowing things down.

It is nice to not have to stress over keeping the house spotless for awhile. We can soon begin packing more things. We'd already packed several boxes in preparation to sell, so we are already down to bare necessities, but it will all have to get done. We close on October 30th which is about six weeks from now.

I'm home this morning from church with Emma who isn't feeling well. I kept Quin home as well to give the nursery volunteers a break. Emma and Hannah both got haircuts yesterday... Hannah got layers (that look really nice) and Emma got all hers cut off. She's been begging for month to go really short. Last haircut she went with bangs again and a short bob, but still not above her ears. She now has a definate pixie cut. It looks really cute and she loves it. I'm glad she doesn't hate it, 'cause it would take awhile to grow back out. I'll need to take some pictures and post them.

Well, since I'm home this morning, I guess I should do some laundry :)