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We’re home. Finally. And our trip was really good. I have sooo much to do for the rest of this week. And today is the first day of school for Courtney. I’m beside myself. We’ll meet the teacher and I’ll be there for the morning. Next week is when I stop, drop and run. Either way, how’d we get to this point?
Courtney and I are heading home today, after 11 nights of travel. We’ve had a great time and our trip ended with some beautiful days but that’s a long time to sleep in strange beds and not have your own stuff. Not to mention I brought 4 days worth of clothes and I can’t wait to switch out the maternity crap I’ve been wearing for the maternity crap at home. And I know that Courtney is looking forward to sleeping in her own crib, even if she can’t verbalize that. Oh, and then there’s that whole I-can’t-wait-to-see-my-hubby and Courtney-misses-her-daddy stuff. Speaking of verbalize, Courtney’s vocabulary has gone through the roof over the last couple of weeks. She’s truly mastered the word “NO!” and “mommy” and sometimes in the same sentence… I’m not sure that I’m overly proud of this “milestone” and I definitely have some work to do with the “no” thing. She even says it with attitude…. Thanks to New England for the beautiful days, the cool nights and even the rain. We’ll miss you!
Thank you New Hampshire for the rain and the cool days and cooler nights, the fun in the lake, the sunset boat ride, a couple of sunny days, and finally a 7am wake-up for Courtney. Today we head to CT for the next several days to visit with more family and friends before heading home on Tuesday. It should take us about 3 hours to get to CT but I’m expecting it to take 4, you know, with all the pee breaks. For me.
 Have a good weekend. (Insert evil laugh here!!) It’s been a long week, on several levels. There’s been the not sleeping and the inches of rain while on vacation and the barking dogs at 5:15 in the morning and that whole “homelessness” bit. It’s been 9 or 10 days since we put the offer in on our potential next home with no word and then we found ourselves in a closed bid, bidding war which is hugely stressful. I’ve been researching short-term rental apartments and storage places and can you fit a pack and play in a refrigerator box down by the river. And then yesterday, finally, we got word on the house. We got it!! Not only did we get it but we got it with our initial bid, the one from last week. Not the one where we had to outbid ourselves and maybe some other potential buyers and we stressed and we hemmed and hawed and tried to figure out how much we were comfortable spending and then stressing some more. I got the call yesterday, the Realtor said we’d won the lottery. He wasn’t kidding. Because the house is a foreclosure and it’s owned my Freddie Mac, there are all kinds of incentives for the buyers. So the bank actually countered our offer with a better deal for us!! No wonder the banks are in such trouble… The deal isn’t done. We still need to do the inspection, hopefully tomorrow, and see what happens from that. We’re expecting there to be issues, the house has been vacant for a while and we don’t really know anything about who did what and when. But worse case scenario, we put in a new AC or hot water heater and we’ll be good to go. We hope. The timing is still terrible. We could close as late as 10/15, I’m due to have a baby on 10/18, and we have to be out of our current home by 10/7. Nothing like cutting it close. And then, there’s still a few weeks of work that would need to be done before we move in. So, we could find ourselves with nowhere to live for a few days. Or maybe with you? Or you? Or you over there? We’re more than half way into our week in New Hampshire and I’ve decided I’m completely incapable of picking a good week for vacation. Last year when we were here, it was 100 degrees every day, there’s no AC and we sat in our own sweat for 7 days. This year it’s in the low 70’s (which I’m loving), maybe even the upper 60’s, and it’s rained most of the week. And, of course, this is the most rain they’ve had here all summer. Go figure. Courtney still isn’t napping and after waking up yesterday morning at 5:30, I decided to move out of her room in hopes that she’d sleep better, at least in the morning. It didn’t really work for either of us for varying reasons. This morning she slept until all of 6, an improvement over yesterday but still less than ideal. As for me, I was up at 1:45 with the most intense heartburn. I’m assuming that’s what that was, I’ve never had it before, but a handful of tums and a couple of hours later, I was back to sleep. And, well, it would have been nice but the 6am wake up killed any chance of a good nights sleep. And of course, there were the sprinklers that were hitting the side of the building at some dumb time and then it was raining buckets and really, who needs sleep at 32 weeks pregnant. Despite the fact that it’s pouring, again, and we aren’t sleeping, still, and the dogs are peeing on the floor because they won’t go outside in the rain, and I now have this heartburn/reflux thing going on, we’re having a great time and wish you were here. Dancing in NH from Karen Chatters on Vimeo. |
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