Yep, we're still alive and kicking! It has been entirely too long since I've updated this thing, but this is the first time I feel like I have been able to come up for air. And that's sad, really, since now is the time that I should be in full-fledged panic mode. Dylan started his job in Lynchburg on May 5th and has been coming home for 3-day weekends since then. It's been rough! The boys have been real troopers, but I know they have really been missing their Daddy. At the beginning, it wasn't bad. I actually didn't really mind it that much, but I think that was mostly because it was something new in our routine instead of the same-old, same-old. Four or five weeks into it was a different story. I was totally over it and ready to get all of us back under the same roof 7 days a week.
Our house went on the market June 2nd and we got a contract offer on June 16th. Everything has been in warp speed since then. We were leaving to go on vacation on the 21st and the buyer's realtor was getting married that same day and leaving to go on his honeymoon. So, in a matter of 5 days, we accepted the offer, they did the inspection and gave us the addendum (which we have since signed off on.) Also, in that same week, we were able to secure an 'as close to perfect as we could hope for' townhouse. It's actually a pretty awesome townhouse. The finished square footage is about 20 sq. ft. more than our house. Plus, it has an unfinished walk-out basement for us to use for storage. Oh, and it's brand new!!!
So, we are closing on July 16th and we are moving the weekend of July 12th/13th. I cannot believe it is really happening. I am relieved that our house sold and that we are finally making the move, but I just know it is going to be a huge adjustment for me. I am sure there are going to be plenty of tears as I am packing over the next 12 days. Every time I am out and about, I look around and think how I am no longer going to live here. I have lived in the Richmond area since I was 4-1/2 and have lived right here in Midlothian since I was 7. I know we will have a great life wherever we are, as long as we are together. But, it isn't going to make this any easier. God Bless my husband for putting up with the emotional train wreck I am about to become! :)
I know it will have been three months by the time we close on the house that we have known we were going to be moving, but I still feel unprepared. I feel like there are so many friends that I have to say good-bye to and not enough time. I am going to have to get with my girls and schedule a farewell dinner. I am not ready to say good-bye and I know I will see all of them down the road, but it's going to be strange not being right down the street or around the corner from them. Heck, we're not even going to be in the same area code anymore!
Well, it's off to bed for me. Lots of packing to do and I will need all the energy I can muster up to get it all done.
