This week has been a little insane. Brad left early Wednesday morning to start this new chapter of his career. His title has already been changed a few times...but essentially he is the Chief of Tanker Readiness at the Pentagon. I think that means he has a nice title and sits in a cubicle with outdated office furniture and makes rubberband balls. Well, maybe a little more then that, eventually.
He'll come home on the weekends but in the meantime we're getting used to his absence which has been harder then normal considering he has been around the past two weeks 24/7 and we've all become accustom to having him here. I was really missing him yesterday as I cut and edged our 1.5 acres with our small push mower. This isn't a fast process anyway but takes 3x as long when having to stop to help fasten a bike helmet, get a bandaid, take a potty break, open bubbles, find the sidewalk chalk, etc while trying to keep visual on 3 children, two dogs and all the neighborhood kids.
The house drama continues...one step forward, two steps back. If I blogged about the details it would be pages...let's just say that yesterday there were over 30 emails between me, our realtor, the sellers agent and the lender. Of course everything went crazy on Brad's first day out our touch and I felt like I was standing in front of a firehouse trying to answer questions and make decisions. Hopefully we'll close on August 8th...just as everything was coming together we realized that the process had taken so long (since Memorial Day!) that we had to change the dates on the contract had expired. That means another addendum and more signatures from all parties involved which isn't fast with two banks involved, two realtors, buyers, and divorcing sellers living in different locations.
We're closing much later then we had anticipated but thankful we can continue to rent this house until we're ready. Since we made our offer the homeowners have moved out and the house is now vacant. Hopefully in another week we're going to start renting the house from the owners until we close. This will give Brad somewhere to stay other then a hotel and allow us to start painting, cleaning, getting cable and phone hooked up, etc. before we actually become the owners.
On the one hand it feels like a quiet summer as we occupy our time with VBS and swim lessons, yet knowing what next month holds and all the things I should probably be doing around the house to get organized makes it feel like living in the middle of a tornado!
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Sounds like a lot to take in. New schedules can be so difficult, that is for sure. Hopefully it will all smooth out sooner rather than later for you guys. Our new schedule is approaching and I'd be telling a lie if I said I wasn't a bit intimidated by the whole thing. Seeing you handle 3 children, 2 dogs, a house and being in the process of purchasing another home all while Brad is away has definitely offered me some encouragement. Thank you for sharing your experiences! :o)It's gonna be a really long year over here...wish us luck? hehe.
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