Denied

The trip to this house has been over since Tuesday night. It is only now that I have been able to really talk about it without tearing up. I am ok now though. It was a learning experience, now knowing that not all people are negotiating types, and for that much, reasonable. But now we get to keep looking at houses and more and more will jump onto the market as it gets closer to Spring.

My co-workers all thought I was in a bad mood this week when really I was just sunk. This truly was a trip, but we will be better prepared for the next round. Take care!

Roller Coaster...of homes

Today has been a roller coaster of emotions. We put in the offer yesterday afternoon with a deadline by 5pm today. We heard back at 1:30 today and the counter offer was not good. So we have now countered their counter and we will see what happens. I want this to work out, but I am ready to walk away if I need to. I am already distancing myself emotionally from the house, just in case. So if it is meant to be, it will be.

We'll see

March 28th ?

The offer has been signed. We are now in the waiting stage of the offering. We met with our Realtor tonight to put together an offer. I feel it went pretty well. Hopefully we come in at a price that is good for everyone. I am very excited for tomorrow evening when we find out if it went through or not.

In other news... today was a Monday from down under. Not good. I was told to try to find humor in it all...yah...didn't happen. But I am much better now. Tyler just made killer burgers and all is well in the world.

I am trying to figure out how to keep from pacing back and forth waiting the next 24 hours out. I try not to think about it... but I want this house! Let me know if you have any ideas.

Take care!

A house hunting we will go...

Monday was our first official day of house hunting. We met up with our Realtor-man around 10am and headed out into the neighborhood. It was really nice having an agent who grew up and has lived all his life in the town we are buying into. We looked at 6 properties... and you cannot judge a house by its exterior or internet listing! :) My goodness, looks can be deceiving. But, in it all, we found a place we might just call our own.

Here it is. A tri-level with a huge backyard backing up to a wooded area and a pre-requisite cornfield. I am really liking this house. It has 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a living room, family room, dining room, laundry room, and a newly remodeled kitchen. I am way excited about the possibilities. We are going again on Friday to see it with family. I have lots of questions I need answered, but the possibility of an April closing is all good! Take care!

Wii Wii Wii... oh yah, and Happy 23rd Birthday, Josh!

It has been a long time since I have had the pleasure of blogging. It is 7:30am on the 23rd and I have been up for about half an hour. It is my Holiday Break and I can't even sleep in. Oh well!

Time has really flown by since my last post. There has been lots of shopping, baking and holiday fun. The day of my last post, Tyler came home with a Wii and that has been our lives since. That gaming system is as addicting as I could imagine. It is crazy, but so much fun. It has been great!

In early December, I had a chance to take a class from Ali Edwards over at the Scrapping Bee in Springfield, which just happened to be right after the huge ice storm they had. So that was an interesting trip. I will have to post a picture of the finished project when I get home.

We are at the in-laws for a few days gearing up to head down to TN the day after Christmas. I am excited but more nervous than usual. Too much family stuff has happened in the last visit to make this one.. I dunno, it's weird. I just want to belnd in to the background when I am down there and not be made such a big deal of.

After the holidays, we begin the journey to our new home. We have two houses we are interested in and can't wait to see the inside. I can't believe the day is here and we can look for a house.... our home!

Happy 1/4 Century Birthday to me!

Here I sit, newly aged to 25 years. My husband is getting a thorough workout on his new Nintendo Wii and I am enjoying a nice view of snow falling. From the time I can remember, I cannot think of it snowing on my Birthday once. I was so happy when I saw it start to fall. What a way to start the day!? My birthday has been rather nice this year.

The festivities all started on Thursday when Tyler had flowers waiting for me when I got home. With my big day so close to Thanksgiving, I never really get to spend much time with my flowers when we travel, so he got them for me early this year. They are beautiful Stargazer Lilies with pink daisies and roses. He even arranged them himself, bow and all :) They are beautiful and more and more are blooming each day. He also had my presents wrapped and ready to go, which I thought was cruel and unusual punishment to be able to see them, but not open them.

Friday kind of snuck up on me. I was ready for the week to be done. The kiddos are already in holiday mode, so it was all for the best that the week was coming to an end. The morning pretty much flew by. 5th Hour was coming to an end and when I dismissed the class, I had a visitor. It was one of my co-workers who "needed computer help". Supposedly, her screen had gone blank when she was entering grades and she didn't know what to do. Now this is a woman who I know can handle computer problems, but this was a major one. So I went down to her room and opened the door and there were my co-workers from my grade who were giving me a Surprise Birthday Lunch. It was so nice. They brought in fruit, chips and salsa, Italian Beef, Brownies and my Quarter Century Cake complete with candles. It was such an unexpected surprise. I have never really had that before for a birthday. And then the kids got wind that it was my birthday and they were singing fools for the rest of the day.

Friday night came and we went to see Stranger than Fiction with Will Farrell. My goodness, that movie was funny, but sad as well. It was a nice change of pace for Mr. Elf.

Saturday, I slept in only to have Tyler tell me that I needed to start the day :) So we got ready and went to Olive Garden for soup, salad and breadsticks. The wait was that of a Christmas weekend, but we snagged a table in the little bistro area and had a nice Lunch. Then we went out and got some wine and appetizers for later. The shrimp we bought were huge and ridiculously priced, but so worth it.

Josh and Audra came over and the boys watched the Ohio State/Michigan game while we went out shopping for a bit. I found a couple pairs of pants that I wanted and then we came back to get ready for dinner. We had 8:00 dinner reservations at SilverCreek. SilverCreek is a beautiful restaurant and the food was great! After we changed into some comfortable clothes, we headed out to Legends Bar and Grill on campus. We knew it wouldn't be too busy and it wasn't. The drinks were good, so all was ok :)

So I feel like I have written a novel already.... more to come later :)

The Crazy Lady

How fitting this picture is... it even looks like me in ways. What can I say? I am the Crazy Lady. Truly. Crazy. I may look ordinary on the outside, but my angry wrinkle says otherwise.

My kids can sense it. They know the crazy lady look. They know when they have gone too far.... they know me all too well. I get a look in my eye and I tend to stare down each little darling one by one. And then slowly, the crazy lady regains some sanity in the room. It happens each year; some years earlier or later than others. This year it is early. Chocolate and Mountain Dew are the remedies of choice. And counseling is looking nice. But what can they do with a truly crazy lady? Once you go crazy, there is no going back. Good luck kiddies :)

But seriously, today was nuts. A true Monday for sure. We had a super relaxing weekend of not doing much of anything. I made lava cake for desert. Tyler made homemade bread. It was nice. We have a half day Wednesday, so I am looking forward to that. Hopefully this week will go by nicely and then I celebrate this weekend and then next week is the Ultimate Food Week :) Yummy!