The last 48 hours have been a little crazy! This weekend was our last big push to get all of our projects done around the house before the realtor came this morning to take pictures.
Most of our day on Saturday was spent at our small group's garage sale, so we decided to skip church (sorry, Dad!) and work like maniacs! Mel came over before lunch to join in the fun, and we got an unexpected offer from our friends, Matt and Caroline, to come and take the girls for the afternoon, so we were able to get a lot done with minimal distraction! It was such a HUGE help to have the girls out of the house for a few hours! We painted the ceilings in the living room and kitchen, sanded and painted the kitchen walls, staged the rooms in the house that still needed to be done, packed up closets that had been stuffed with random things as we were clearing space for paint and supplies, and planted some new (meaning "alive"!) greenery in our planters out front!
Steve was planning on leaving this morning with his exam team to head to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee for the next three weeks, so I was all geared up and ready for a long few weeks "alone". (When you have children, you're never really alone - even if you desperately want to be!) Due to ovulation schedules and all that jazz, we had the last-minute idea for the girls and I to join him for a few days this week in Tennessee. We were actually really excited about it, but it made the next 24-hours a little stressful!
We got to enjoy a wonderful wedding last night for our friends, Melissa and Marlon, and then rushed home to pack all of the things we would need for the girls and I for two days in a hotel, and also try and clean/stage the house for the photographer coming out in the morning. Our area is supposed to get snow again this week, so I packed extra supplies just in case we had to stay in Tennessee for an extra day while the ice melted, and also threw some blankets and extra food in the car in case of an emergency.
This morning, I got up with the girls, got us all dressed, packed the car with a crap-load of supplies, called the handyman to tell him I wouldn't be home while he was working, called his company to pay over the phone, called my realtor to ask her to turn off all of our lights after the photographer took his pictures, threw my crock-pot that was filled with dinner for a friend with a new baby in the front seat of the car, and headed to grab breakfast for the girls on my way to the church to do a few missions things before leaving town! Whew!
I was feeling pretty good as I headed to church; feeling like I had gotten all of my crazy, morning to-do's done with minimal stress! Halfway there, I got a text from Steve that said his management was getting nervous about the storms coming in and had cancelled all over the travel for this week. Cancelled. Which means the chaos of last night and this morning was essentially for nothing. It will be wonderful to have Steve home for this week, and it also gives us a few extra days to finish some of the minor things we wanted to do before the house went on the market, but it was so deflating! I was like, you have got to be kidding me! I may have told Steve that he and his bosses owed me huge. So all of the crazy and the anticipation and the planning is now unnecessary. Steve will probably end up working from home for the rest of the week, and I doubt very seriously that anyone's going to be looking at houses during the snow, so we potentially have a very calm week ahead of us!
Three weeks to go until we move to the new house! I'm looking forward to feeling like we're actually ahead of the curve this week instead of stressing about all of the things we had to do to get here!
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