Homeless

We have closed on our house, our 'old' house! We signed the papers yesterday. I had to sign even though I was not on the deed since I have lived there for 5 years, I was told it was common law.

Getting everything out of the house was a crazy adventure. We had two PODS in our driveway. We loaded one with all our boxes (my school stuff takes up about 35%) and a few other things like the grill. Our wonderful small group and Brandon's brother came over to help carry all the boxes! Thank you, Thank you! The other POD was for all our furniture, to be loaded by paided movers! When the movers arrived they walked through the house and let us know that all the furniture would not fit. I asked them to load all the heavy stuff so that I would be able to help Brandon move all the other furniture. They did a wonderful job packing as much as they could. Brandon and I ended up renting a UHaul Truck and moving the rest of the furniture to our friends Chris and Katie's house. Thank you for letting us invade your home!! We got everything out of the house by early afternoon!

As we walked through the house for the last time I teared up a little. It is hard to leave a house we love, that we started our marriage in, and brought our baby boy home to. I know that this is a good move and we will make wonderful memories in our new home, but it is still hard to think about a new home.

We are now homeless! We sign on Monday (May 24/Eli's 18 month birthday), the papers have to be overnighted to one of the sellers in NJ and then overnighted back, then the sell will be final on Thursday (May 27). We can't get into the house until Sunday (May 30) and then the painting starts on Monday (May 31)! We were told that it will take one to two weeks to paint, but they will do the bedrooms and main rooms first so we can get the carpets cleaned and move all our stuff in and start unpacking while the bathrooms and outside are painted. So hopefully we will be moved in by June 4th and stay the first night on June 6th. I have to unpack a little before we move completely in.

That leaves us homeless for about 3 weeks! We are very lucky to have a wonderful place to stay, at Brandon's brother and sister-in-laws home! They put up their daughters crib in a spare room for Eli so he has a "real" bed, cleaned out a closet and dresser for Brandon and I, and have let us take over house with toys and craziness! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stay tuned for pictures of the new house!