Closing Day

Well, today we closed on our house. Yippetty Yay Hooray!!!! We should get the keys on Tuesday and then we'll be able to start working on the house (starting with a bug bomb - the house has been vacant since January). It's still so hard to believe that this is actually happening.

Alright, let's get updatey. Yesterday was our anniversary. After putting the kids to bed, we celebrated with an absolutely fantastic meal, then watched the original Pink Panther movie, checked out from the library. We're nothing if not cheap, lol.

Earlier yesterday we stopped by Lowe's just for fun, and ended up buying a nice hefty moving dolly. That should be super helpful with our upcoming move, especially with the long hallway and all the stairs we'll be dealing with, both here at the apartment and at the new house. Jeff even rolled me around the store aisle for a few feet on the dolly, to prove how sturdy it was, before I made him put me down - it was fun but kinda scary! When we moved from Idaho, Zaylee loved to be rolled around on our rented dolly, but she tends to be a bit more adventurous than I am.

This morning, we planned on leaving at nine to take the kids to Joy and Jim's house (Jeff's sister and her husband) and then go to the title company to sign all the closing documents. Of course, we happened to sleep in! Zaylee woke me up at 8:40 when she came out of her room to go to the bathroom. We were in a mad rush for the next half hour, getting everyone dressed and fed and ready to go. But the kids were dropped off and we made it to the title company only a few minutes late.

Then we spent the next hour or so signing paper after paper - seriously, the stack of papers you have to sign to buy a house is at least an inch and a half thick! That's a lot of papers to sign! Anyway, after all that signing and everything, we headed back to Joy and Jim's. Since it was nearly lunch time, we decided to celebrate closing and pay them back for watching the kids by taking everyone to a Chinese buffet. Special bonus - since it was lunch time, and Joy had a reward card for that particular restaurant, we were able to feed four adults and three kids for only $28. And it was so delicious - I love Chinese buffet! Of course, I totally ate too much, but it was all so good, and after all, it was a special occasion. :-)

The rest of the day has been spent lazing around digesting. Tomorrow I'm going to get to work sorting through the boxes under Zaylee's bed, deciding what to keep and what needs to go to D.I. I also still need to go through the kids' clothes, pack away the stuff that's too small, and get out anything that they might have grown into. Sigh. Organizational tasks aren't my favorite things to do, but it'll be good to have them done.