garage sale

I have the following for sale if anyone is in need or desire:

Upright piano $? Make offer

1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee (silver) $2800 or best offer

1996 Ford Mustang (red) wrecked on side, has salvaged title but drives awesome! $900

2003 Ford F150 long bed, regular cab (white), ranchhand bumper, camper topper $8000



Anyone have boxes I could borrow or buy to pack up my house? I should be moving around Aug 18!!!!!

Mahna's first hair appt. is tomorrow. AWWWWWWW

My first DR appt is Weds. so I will find out my actual due date and maybe the baby's sex! I am guessing I am due about Jan 4th tho.

Thanks for the positive words for those who commented. HUGS

Sometimes I can't breathe.

Just when I thought we were getting things settled and closer to finalizing on the house, we get a lower estimate from a different mortgage company and now are 'fighting' with our current mortgage guy over a couple thousand dollars. Now on my mind is who should we trust...

Also on my mind is I need more cleaning jobs. Things are slow and I am feeling great these days (physically) and actually COULD be working a lot more often.

My own house doesn't seem clean or organized enough to start packing anything....... where do I start???????

I am so excited about the house I start crying out of thankfulness. Then I start having an anxiety attack with the reality that we are going to own a home and a large home payment...

Then there is the mom thing, there is so much I need to do to prepare her for life as it is but on top of that I must focus on my almost 8 yr old son who was adopted. I need to find ways to always let him know how much I love him even tho someday he may be very angry at me for getting married and having other children. I also have to be explaining to Mahna how special her brother is and why things turned out the way they did. And how not to set her path in life like I set mine back then...

Least importantly but still bothering me is how much weight i am gaining already and still have so long to go until the baby comes.

no news is bad news?.

Well I can't really update about the house right now because I don't know. We have been looking at OTHER houses, but that is still 'the one'. The woman wants us to raise our paying price 2000 dollars and then she will fix the foundation. I don't know what to think. Should I be scared to get into a house with foundation problems that have just been fixed? Should I just accept it and know that no matter where we are around here we will have that problem? UGH so much to think about. Well I have to go do some preliminary paperwork junk for the doctor in Carrollton.......... I really should get this done since I am almost 17 wks and haven't gone to the DR yet. I hate going to the DR! Especially a new one. toodles.

FRIDAY POSTING

I would have never guessed how much stress and waiting would go into this housebuying experience. And we always thought that once we got a house we wouldn't be "throwing away money on rent" anymore. But the more we learn the less your house is really an "investment". I mean if we decide to sell our house in 5 years, even if it went up in value $10,000 that money would all go to realtor fees and mortgage closing fees etc anyway. So I guess we just have to get that out of our minds and enoy that it will be 'ours' (if we ever get it) and we can change the wall color, plant flowers....... etc. That will be cool. I also kind of thought once our loan was approved and once our bid was accepted, it is pretty much OURS. Not true........ we had bad news at the inspection and then had to get someone to see how bad the foundation of the house is. Turns out it is pretty bad. So now we have to get the woman to agree to fix it or no house for us. Then we can kiss $360 goodbye ($260 inspection, $100 option fee) and start all over looking somewhere else. That is worst case scenario I guess. The woman who owns the house and her lawyer are sneaky and crooked acting so I figure they will get their "own" inspector out there tomorrow to say there is "nothing wrong with the foundation" or else she will just say she won't fix it and we will have to say adios to the casa. Either way. It will all happen as it should and in the way intended for all of us. It's all good.
Today I am enjoying an entire day with my babykins. It has been almost a week since we have had that. Even last weekend we had to send her off to gma's while we did realtor junk. We have had a fun day together and I am truly amazed (but then again not) at how much better behaved she is when she has lots of momma time. She even has moments when she goes off and plays by herself! That is unheard of when I have been gone from her all day.
Happy Friday to all!!!!!!!!!!!

day 2 of 10

BUYING A HOUSE SUCKS

realtors and mortgage guy seem so much less friendly now that we have signed a few papers. now it is rush rush and all up to us and such an annoyance to them to answer any questions. i truly don't trust anyone anymore, church related or not. i do appreciate all the advice i have been getting in my comments. i can't believe how much money everything is costing. it is truly maddening. i know i have gotten on a few of my clients nerves lately too because i am still cleaning and getting a million phone calls a day. of course yesterday when i didn't have to clean and i was just sitting there for 3 hours waiting for the inspection to be done the mortgage guy was nowhere to be found or heard from. now today when the woman i am cleaning for is right there with me paying me a buttload of money per hour, he needs to gripe at me for not making a decision on the loan we want yet........ HELLO I WANTED TO TALK TO U ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! ugh. someone please tell me that owning a home is worth it. i honestly want this to be the only home we ever purchase....
unless we win the lottery and can hire someone else to do our stressing for us.
and on another note, if anyone ever hears me pining for another baby after this please remind me that i despise being pregnant.
Thanks.

day 1 of 10

House was inspected today, the heat shield on the fireplace is cracked. Anyone know what that means? There are possible foundation problems so we have to get ANOTHER inspection. The one today took almost three hours! Plus I had to go to three banks today to get statements and transfer monies around. Mahna stayed w/ mom half the day and got to do lots of swimming. Tomorrow I have to work probably all day, so money is good but I hope I won't have to be on the phone too much while I work, since the woman I am cleaning for will be home. We signed preliminary papers at the real estate office today. Waiting on the seller's disclosure to find out age of roof so we can get solid insurance quote........ money is flying out of our hands! EEK

ok....

Scratch that other post. After going thru immense sadness and disappointment, the owners of our dream home call back and say "okay I guess we CAN go lower". PUNKS!!!!!!!!!!! So we have been going back and forth once again and as of today they accepted our offer! :) Yippee! SO now we just have to have the inspection done tomorrow and hope that it is not TOO bad. The great thing about this house is that it doesn't really need anything done right away (as far as we can tell) so we can just move in and be happy. LOL. Sounds like a fairytale! I guess I will know by tomorrow night if all is cool with it! HOly COW I CAN"T BELIEVE IT IS FINALLY HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was wrong.

It is my dream house. But it is not the house for us. One reason: Money. The woman who owns it just wants too much. I am beginning to wonder if we will ever find something in Lewisville/Flower Mound. I just like it here cuz I have lived here a long time and my family and Jarrod's family are here. Why does everyone think it is worth SO MUCH MONEY to live here? I don't get it.
So back to the search.... I hope I have cried myself out tonight so I do want to get out of bed tomorrow.

CASA!

We put in a bid tonight on a house in Lewisville. It is within walking distance of Parkway Elementary if you know where that is. Vally Pkwy and 3040. I am soooooooooooo excited. I really believe this is the house. I am probably letting myself get hopes up too much but I hear that you KNOW when you walk in and I think I KNEW.

colorado pics

update

HI! Just wanted to say howdy and tell u all we are having a grand time in Colorado. We are staying at the Purgatory ski resort and it is very pretty and peaceful. Mahna loves all the nature. She is taking Elliott on all the walks and he does very well staying with her on the leash. People are always stopping and saying something about how amazing it is that she can handle a dog at her size. Haha. I heard a song on one of Mahna's Disney videos:

"ain't nothin like the great outdoors to ease your soul, ain't nothin like the great outdoors to keep you from growin old......"

I am at an internet cafe right now but my time is about up and Mahna's patience should be almost over. Yesterday we saw Durango, today we saw Silverton and now are in Ouray. Purdy stuff. Easygoing mountain people.