A Busy Time For Us ...

The last couple of weeks have been very exciting but also very hectic for us. We officially sold our house a few weeks ago and have been busy getting all of the paperwork, inspections and appraisal details handled in a timely manner. In the meantime, this meant that we also needed to start looking more seriously for a new home for us. We found one in Laingsburg that I fell in love with, but we were not able to buy that one because there was a previous offer in for that house already. We tried anyway, but to no avail.

Instead, we found another one in the same area that was a little cheaper (and yet a little bigger). We put an offer in on that one and we officially have a signed contract! We hope to be able to close on both our current home and our new home by the middle of May (with a little luck, we might be able to manage it perfectly so that we can move directly from our old house to our new house).

I am also wrapping up the Spring semester of teaching. I have two more weeks left and then I will have a full month off before I start back teaching for the Summer semester. That month off will be spent doing a lot of cleaning and moving, etc. I am grateful for the time off because frankly, it couldn't come at a more opportune time.

In the middle of all of this though, we still take time out to enjoy a nice snack of Cheerios:



The boxes are starting to get filled up in our house and we are moving as much stuff as we can out of the house and into the garage (for easier moving later). Last night, Steve and his friend brought down the incredibly heavy gun safe that was in the upstairs portion of our house. It is now residing in my dining room, but will be moved tomorrow. In the meantime, Sam (and Watson, our kitten) think that it makes for a nice place to play:

I will continue to post updates as we get closer and closer to our closing dates. We are very excited to move out of our small house and into a larger one. And we are even more excited about the beautiful neighborhood that we will be moving into. There will be some updates that will need to be done to our new home ... but none of them will need to be done prior to moving in. Rather, they will just be projects that we can focus on as we find time (and money) for them ...