What a whirlwind of a few months

Well a bit of things have happened since my last post. We did in fact sell the house, move in with my parents, and buy a house.

Now that we are all moved in, the kids have bus service to school (so flippin nice),and we are enjoying a yard. Since we moved in early September we got a good amount of spending time on the deck and relaxing. Now the kids are enjoying the snowy yard while I stay warm in the house. :o) Recently we (the kids) were invited to the neighbors house to sled from their backyard into the retention pond (not filled with water). They build a ramp and go thru the fence door and away they go. Pretty sweet deal and I wonder if we are high enough to do something like that as well. Our yard is on the side of the retention pond. Either way if the kids want to sled they can and we don't have to travel very far to use the bathroom. lol

I am finding the only annoying thing about living here is how fast people go down the street. It's 25mph and I am pretty sure people are going almost 40mph. Our mailbox is on the street so I am always a bit freaked when they drive so close and fast by you. Good thing we have sidewalks to ride our bikes on. Hoping to make a call soon to the police dept and make a complaint. Something has to give since our street is the only street to get in and out of the neighborhood.

So far I enjoy living here and sometimes I feel like I am in a dream and I will wake up and still be in the old house.

Selling a House

House selling is the most stressful thing that you can do. It's right up there with planning a wedding.

After you finally accept an offer you have an inspection that the buyer does. Mind you that is nerve racking enough because you hope and pray that they do not find anything that will be a huge money fix. So inspection day comes along (five days after we signed a contract). My husband is cleaning and knocks out power to a few outlets. Yep it really happened. Thankfully we know an electrician and he was able to come over and fix it. Whew crisis averted! 

Friday comes and we have yet another crisis. Yep anything that can happen can and will. That should of been our sign as to how the day was going to go. We finally get a call from out attorney and he tells me that he know of two things that are wrong but doesn't know how bad or what the details are. Great! So I compose myself and call the realtor. She only knows pretty much what the attorney is saying because everyone is being pretty tight lipped on the other end. Plus we have to wait till after 4:30pm on a Friday. Something I don't get because I saw the other party leave my house by 6pm. Why nothing was finished and ready for a Friday morning/early afternoon is beyond me. Anyways we have to wait. Our little crisis is finally dealt with. We head out to dinner to try and take our minds off of everything that has happened in the past 24 hrs. About a little before 10pm we finally get the report. I open it and my mouth drops. Yeah really hoping that he threw a bunch of stuff out there hoping that an item or two would be taken care of. The stuff that he is asking for is beyond crazy and money consuming. We are talking almost 10,000! Who does that? Why would we replace something that is not broken and still works? So after calming down a lot we are picking from the expensive list and countering them. Unfortunately because this was given to us on a Friday night we have to wait till Monday to speak to our attorney. Ugh!

It is now Saturday and while we joked a little about the situation I still am not feeling confident on this deal. I am already freaking that when we do counter we won't hear anything till like two days later. we are under the gun of the buyers deadline not our own. So happy that they changed the closing date to a week later. Not feeling it and I really could use a sign that everything will be ok and will work out.

So stressful. *sigh*

Life

Sometimes I wish that life was different. Sometimes while on facebook I see into peoples lives and I want what they have. A husband that is home at night and weekends, friends, a nice house, money, couple friends to go out with. Sometimes I feel like I am drowning in my own world. I just keep waiting for my time to shine and I feel like it may never come.

Everyday I am reminded that my house is not for sale, I can't do moms night out, I can't go out on a date with my husband and I am stuck with my kids everyday. No escape and I feel trapped.

Have I mentioned that in a year I have gained 20lbs. UGH! Seriously I can't catch a break and no amount of not eating or even dieting is helping. At this point I just want to starve myself and see if that even helps. I'm sure it wouldn't because lets face it nothing ever goes my way anymore.

I sometimes wish that I had a ton of nieces and nephews to spoil and no kids.  But at this point I don't see any spoiling happening ever. My kids are brats almost all the time and I just want to smack some sort of sense in them. Sigh  If I could I would call Supernanny on their asses. Or worse case boarding school.

I am at the verge of just hating everyone and wishing for a fast forward button.

Birthday Eve

Birthday Eve has come and while the hubby is in full count down mode (might be because he is off for a few days though lol) I am not. The kids have been fighting and annoying each other more than normal. I have a mini migraine and now only one pill left and no refills. Seriously thinking of calling on a Dr. friend to call me in a prescription but I really don't want to cross that line.

Oh yes a wonderful start to the year. Must take a long shower after dinner and try and snap out of this funk. Maybe I will escape into my book after my shower. It's a long book (495 pages) and I just set my goal to read 25 books in 2013. I know I will make that goal and just maybe even go past the goal by a book or two.

Off to cook the two children some dinner and hopefully not put them on the curb with a "Free to a good home sign" tonight.