I am a neglect­ful blog­ger.  I admit it!  Every time I get started blog­ging again, some­thing else comes up, and I take another long hia­tus.  I am sorry to any­one who does still read this blog.  I am try­ing to do bet­ter. 

Those of you who know me in per­son have most likely heard me talk about want­ing to move back into town.  Three years ago, we bought the house we cur­rently live in, and it is about 10 miles out of town in a small bed­room com­mu­nity.  For var­i­ous rea­sons, we want to go back to town.  We decided some time over the win­ter that we were going to put our house on the mar­ket and see what would hap­pen with it.  Our orig­i­nal goal was to have it up by May 1, then May 15, and finally June 2 or 3.  Well, for the last month, Jason and I have been clean­ing, orga­niz­ing, and declut­ter­ing.  We missed our goal of hav­ing it up on the mar­ket by June 2 or 3, but we did list it on Fri­day.  By Fri­day at noon, we had appoint­ments for three show­ings (with a fourth added later that evening).

It was a crazy day.  I ended up tak­ing all of our extra stuff out of the house and tak­ing the boys to a friend’s house.  We were sup­posed to have had another friend and her fam­ily over for sup­per here, but because of the tim­ing of one show­ing, we decided I would make sup­per at her house.  I threw all the food for sup­per in the van, too.  I got the boys out of the house at about 1:00 for the 1:30 show­ing, and we were out for the rest of the after­noon and evening.

We found out that two of the par­ties who had seen our house made offers.  We accepted the sec­ond offer on Sat­ur­day, and our house is offi­cially pend­ing right now.  Isn’t that amaz­ing?  The buyer had ini­tially pro­posed a clos­ing date of July 8th, but because we haven’t looked at ANY houses yet, we are plan­ning to close some time on or before July 16th.  Any prayers for the sit­u­a­tion would be appre­ci­ated!    God has worked this all out so won­der­fully, I am not wor­ried, but I know that even with every­thing going as planned buy­ing and sell­ing houses can be very stressful.

We are plan­ning to look at houses this week with our real­tor.  We made a list of all the houses that fit our price range and cri­te­ria.  We looked through it, and we man­aged to elim­i­nate 2.  Now, we only have 11 more to look at!    Eleven seems like it might be a smidge too many, but I just couldn’t not see them!

This is why I am not blog­ging right now.  I am not read­ing.  I am not exer­cis­ing much.  I am not cook­ing as much as I want.  I was only clean­ing, orga­niz­ing, and think­ing about clean­ing and orga­niz­ing.    It seems unbliev­able that when I go to BlogHer in about 6 weeks, I will no longer be liv­ing in this house!