Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Finally a good title-We're having a girl!

So I'm sitting at the salon getting my hair did and the adoption agency called! We're having a girl!  Baby mama had an ultrasound yesterday and its a girl! we'll actually get the sonogram next week (if all goes well).  Funny...the agency rep that called said that baby mama was a free spirit, hippie chick that was a member of Rainbow Coalition.  I instantly Googled it.  I got militant black folks following Jesse Jackson....Almost as quickly I got another email saying it was the Rainbow Family of Living Light.  Google that.  See what you get.  I believe LOOSELY many of their beliefs.  Love, peace, respect for the earth...Bet my baby mama has dreads!

So, we move in 2 weeks and 2 days.  Here's the saga, hopefully condensed.  We looked at the Cardinal house several weeks ago.  0.8 miles from Julie's house.  It was not as cool, not a big, not in the best location, but almost 20,000 cheaper.  We thought more and more about that and we made an offer and it was accepted readily.  So we do a home inspection (which I have to call a home study since adoptions) and there is a circuit breaker that is a potential fire hazard and an old, leaky, rusty water heater.  And other stuff, but we only requested the FIRE HAZARD and the almost dead water heater be replaced.  Meanwhile we find out the the true owner of the house was the older gentleman and his jerk-off plastic surgeon son.  So jerk man says, "We've already given you a lot.  The house is as is."  No he didn't! He did.  So, since Mike and I had already begun feeling a little weird about the house, we ran back to look at the house 2 doors down from Julie.  Instant rekindling of affection.  Perfect.  And the interest rates are so low, that the extra 20,000 is not much of a difference.  So, the jerk son in California first offered us a price reduction and a water heater.  We said no.  Then he added all the furniture we wanted and a painted by his mother.  We said no, again.  Then he threatens to sue us! So Friday afternoon we happily trot over to Vern's office with a contract.  We BARELY got it.  He was showing the house to another couple who put a backup offer on OUR house! But we got the house.  Moving in 2 weeks, 2 days.  Stress.  Yes.  Over the weekend, Mr. jerk son must have eaten some baked crow because he called back on Monday (oh, forgot to mention that he was so awful that the real estate agent QUIT be his rep!) ever so sweet and said he'd give us ANYTHING to get us in the house. Too bad.  So now we are moving money around, paying for the adoption early, and figuring, figuring, figuring.  Every night I go to bed dreaming of decoration and paint color!  Yippee!

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

We sold the house!

So finally after much agony, we have accepted a contract on our house! The agony was the 7 month wait, not this contract. Was kinda funny since we were in Henderson when this all went down and the kids were napping and I didn't have my usual resources available and I was doing egg hunts while negotiating a contract. But everything went smooth and we are closing May 8. So we immeadiately went house hunting and gave the ugly house a second glance and decided to buy it. The ugly (because of the yellow shutters and door) is only cosmetically ugly. Its a brick ranch house with gorgeous hardwood floors. And lots less work to make it liveable. It is an old house so there are some things that need to be done, but I'm ready for extreme makeover home edition-at least until the baby comes! That means I have June to do my magic. We will close May 8 as well. So now trying to coordinate move out-move in on the same day.

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Really running out of titles

So, what hasn't happened since the last posting?  My dear neighbor found her itty bitty bit of breast cancer had returned and was in many more places.  As I grieve for the loss of her remission, I also can't help but think about my own remission.  I was experiencing a little female excitement for several weeks so I finally called my doctor.  She promptly scheduled me for a diagnostic d and c and an ultrasound because we found a new mass under my arm.  So, 9 days later and everything is negative!  No precancerous cells in the d and c stuff and the underarm mass is fatty tissue. Yippee! After today's doctor's appointment, our agent called and said we might have an offer IF we would say what we might do if we had an offer...Apparently a young couple likes our house and another one (much farther away) but ours is 5,000.00 more expensive. So, tomorrow we either plug along or we have an offer.  I'm happy I'm healthy and alive.    Then Ally and I went to the Education Rally. We met other teachers at the State Dept of Ed and marched to the Capital building where we proceeded to rally our tails off for the next hour and a half.  So inspiring.  Never have SC teachers come together to protest anything.  (Our idiot governor is refusing the Federal stimulus money.)  I normally wouldn't have a lot of gusto to participate in something like this but dangit, I need to start doing something about what I believe in. 

Other news, our baby mama is now due July 13.  Yes.  July freaking 13.  At least that is the latest estimate.  So, time to move and get set up, take some classes, etc.  Yippee!

Off to bed!