YEOW!

Holy cow!  I stepped on something on the stairs in the dark and now my foot is throbbing and bleeding :(  It looks like a piece to an Ace bandage but it's not.  Who knows how it got there but at least I "found" it and not Gabe or Mike. 

We have some halfway exciting weekend plans.   We have a bonfire at a friend's house tomorrow and my mom is keeping Gabe so we can go and have fun.  I think that's a pretty good Mother's Day gift!  We're also doing a lunch with my Aunt and Uncle tomorrow (yes we know Mother's day is Sunday).  

Sunday I have to organize and pack some stuff.  Yes really.  I'm not just talking about it.  I have to organize the garage so I can start stacking things out there.   I can't forget to leave a path for the garbage can to get out though (lol) that would be bad.  

I swear there was something else but I've obviously forgotten so you can see it must have been really important and funny right?  

Now what to do to nurse my foot?  I wonder if I can get a sympathy present out of this :P

And the house saga continues...

Today my mom calls and says that the house we put an offer in with the contingency has an offer with no contingency so we're losing the house :(   Well I'm a little bummed but really not as bad as I thought I would be. 

THEN my mom gets a call to find out she was approved for the amount we expected to be and she does NOT have to sell her condo and they are going to take what she paid for it for the equity so they aren't going to even bother sending an appraiser out.  So that's VERY good news.

Sooooo what house are we going to look at now?  Remember that huge 3000 sq foot house I first thought was OURS?  Yup it's still on the market and FORTY THOUSAND dollars cheaper than it was then.  It's down to $175,000.  It's a foreclosure so we're going to bid $140,000 and see where they come back at.   

I have had a few dreams about that house.  I feel like it has always been the one and yet I didn't want Mike to feel like he was giving into me (again) so I really would have been okay with the other house, but that's out of our hands now.   

So my mom is going to try and put an offer in today or tomorrow but it might not be til Monday.  NOW I'm really going to be nerve wracked (is that even a word?).    So pray really really really really hard that there isn't an offer on it yet that we haven't heard about or I WILL be crushed. 

Want to see pictures of the UGLY but beautiful house?  It has a swing set in the back already and a 6 foot high fence.  The level where the fireplace is has a bath with a shower only but we'll put a BIG tub in soon and a bedroom for Mike and I.  Gabe will be in one of the bedrooms upstairs closer to my mom.  

The counter in the kitchen needs to go.  You can't tell in the pictures but EVERY tile is on a different plane and not level at all.    So here's to hoping (crosses the crossables). 

Here it is!

Stressed out

UGH! I just want to scream!

I think we forgot to pay the electric bill last month and now we owe $350 bucks.  Crap where am I going to come up with that.  I'm hoping if we pay half they won't cut us off.   I THOUGHT we paid it.    

Ok I went away and did the check book.  Bad news :(  Crap.  I close to $100 short on the utility bill, and that's if I use all the gas money.  I have no idea where we went wrong either.  Nothing has changed.   Just when I think I have it figured out then something like this happens.  I was supposed to be putting away $50 off this check too, guess that's not happening.    

Add that stuff on top of trying to organize and pack and general work/life stress I'm not a happy camper today.  I just need a break once and awhile.  I wish I could just veg out for a bit but that never seems to happen.    I just feel a little overwhelmed right not and I can't quite put my finger on why.  I hate that.  

Maybe I need a drink and a bath if I had a good bathtub that might be a good solution (lol).  

Blarg

Ever have a house call to you? And then have a second one that's close to being perfect? That's where I am. I have a house that really calls to me, but Mike thinks it's too big. I really like the second option so it really would be fine but I think I might always wonder about that other one, the first one that I thought was ours when we first started looking. It's still there. Will it be there in 20 days when it matters? Will they go down enough for it to matter? I have no idea but I know what I want the answers to be.

I can see us in the kitchen having breakfast and playing in the yard on the swing set that's already there. I can see us having people over for Christmas and Thanksgiving and it being HOME.

Have I mentioned I need to pack? It's so hard to pack when you don't know where you're going. I need a good kick in the rear though. Today I HAVE to do some packing or at least laundry so that the winter stuff can be packed away. So when I get home from work I MUST do work. Someone kick me and remind me of that this afternoon when I'm tired from work or think something else would be fun.

More house hunting

Today we went and looked through two more open houses.  One was exactly the same footprint/layout as a previous house but $13,000 more so that doesn't make any sense to even consider. 

The second was in a GREAT location, just blocks from downtown Cedarburg.  It's a corner lot (we seem to look at a lot of those) with a smallish yard though.  We know we have to do renovations so having a yard to take from to use for more house would be ideal.  It was SUPER cute and had a big enough basement with a toilet already in it to convert to a bed/bath suite and still have real basement space left over though so there was potential.  It's only been on the market a week though and at the top of our price range so the likely hood that they would come down far enough for us to put the amount of money into it that we would need to make it what we want is doubtful but it went on the list.   

We have one more that we want to look at right in Cedarburg that's priced at $159,900 which is DIRT cheap here but for that price we could put in the amount of money we need.  

So another week goes by with no idea what we're doing but I'm packing anyhow.  I SUCK at packing and I'm not a good organizer either so it takes me FOREVER to pack.  I really need a weekend alone at home to do it but that's not going to happen.  

In other news it was gorgeous outside today and we had friends stop by so we played outside with Gabe which makes me want a real yard even more.  That kid is such a ham for people.  He was showing off spinning in circles and jumping and driving his car around.   Darn he's a cute kid. 

Gymnastics today

So today I got to do a rare thing, take Gabe to tumbling class.  Usually it's a daddy and Gabe thing but daddy wasn't feeling great.  So I went.  It made me a little late to work but was worth it. 

They had this roller coaster thing out today and Gabe LOVED it.  He must have gone down it 50 times in a half hour.  I had seen them online and thought they were kind of neat but I had no idea how much Gabe would really like it.   

I was surprised he was really good at sharing it too.  He even signed please and thank you to the other kids who wanted to ride.  I had one mom pretty impressed that he signed those and shared.  I told her since he doesn't talk that much the signing helps my sanity some.   

He did jump on the trampoline some with me, they are built right into the floor and we can both be on it.  I held his hands and I really got him bouncing pretty good even though my feet weren't leaving the trampoline.  As a kid we had a trampoline, one of those huge round ones you buy at Sam's and LOVED it.  So it's on my list of things we HAVE to have in our yard when we have one.  I guess that means that I have to have a fence too though (lol).  

All in all it was a fun morning.  Work was dead so I only worked 2 hours and I can't complain about going home early on a Friday.  

A new plan

We have a new plan now for the house situation.  We think that we'll be most likely to move near the end of June if all things go well. 

We tried to stay local for a loan but turns out the big guys (countrywide/bank of america) have much better deals and are going to allow us to do what we want with LESS money down.   So while we have a contract on a house it only runs til May 22 and in Wisconsin it takes 21 days to close on a house.  We have to wait til May 23rd before deciding if we are going to rebid on that house or choose another one (since a few have popped up) but technically after today there is no way we could buy that house with this particular contract.  

Now of course the question comes down to location, location, location, price and size.  We have a very specific target area and there are a couple houses suddenly on the market in our perfect target area but they are small and would need more work to make them into what we want.  One is only 3 blocks from my Aunt and Uncle though (sigh).  There is still that really huge house for sale who's price has dropped 40,000 bucks from it's original asking price which is REALLY tempting but it's in the 2nd target area.  

So all in all we have a lot of options I think which is a good thing and at the end of May I think we'll have officially found a house and know where we'll be moving.   

Anyone want to help pack or move? ;)