We're moving!

Finally, we are making some progress on the house front! Every time we've thought things were progressing another road block popped up. We were supposed to be ready to closing the week of Sept 15th. However, our attorney discovered that the sellers of the house we purchased filed for Bankruptcy in 2005 and their attorney did not file the necessary release form with the Bankruptcy court. So we've been on hold for the last few weeks, as we've waited for the Bankruptcy Trustee and Judge to sign off on the release of the house. Yesterday - we received the fabulous news that we are scheduled to close on Tuesday afternoon!! Though it will be absolutely nutty - I feel like we are finally making progress and a huge weight has lifted. Particularly, since we are supposed to close on our current home on October 17th and this upcoming weekend would be the last "weekend" that we could move. Our friends are helping out and if we had been forced to move during the week it would have been difficult with everyone at work. It will be nutty, but manageable. We can't move on Saturday because my husband coaches HS Varsity Volleyball and has a tournament all day and I am 4 hours away in Northern NY for my 1st baby shower in my hometown. Nothing like trying to cram it all in. So - Sunday it is! Thank goodness it's a Buffalo Bills By-Week.

I'll try to post some pics after the big move. I have been doing a bit of knitting. I have another sweater done, a Clapotis (that I don't think I took a pic of before sending it to the giftee- oops), a sock and the mate partway along and a BSJ baby sweater in the works. I can't wait to get my storage pods delivered and set-up my new sewing room. It's all mine, mine, heeeehheee.

See you again in the new house. If you're local - please come and visit!

Update

I've been a bad blogger lately. Between the baby zapping all my energy and the endless house stuff - it has been nutty. The good news is though that I'm starting to feel a bit less tired. I actually knitted a few rows yesterday for the first time in months!! I had started a Baby Kimono from Mason Dixon Knitting awhile ago. It makes me feel so much more human. Though I want a different project - I was doing it in cotton and after not knitting for a while it hurts my wrists. All of my yarn and books are trapped in storage in a different town as we are in the process of selling our house. It sucks @!$* I feel lost without my fabric and yarn. I was going to go to the yarn shop today and remembered that it's Sunday - so nothing is open. I may have to resort to desperate measures.

I leave Tuesday afternoon for the Vermont Quilt Festival with my Mom. I can't wait. I'm ready to start sewing again and want to start a quilt for the baby when I return. We are signed up for some great classes. I'll share some pictures and stories when I return next week.

I'm so glad to be going away. I can't wait to leave the craziness of showing our house for sale and looking for a new home for just a few days. I do feel a little bad that I'm leaving my husband to handle it by himself - but he'll survive. He actually likes the fact that our house is practically empty - I feel like I'm in a stranger's house and shouldn't touch anything. It's such a roller coaster ride. We had a really good open house yesterday - approximately 20 groups went through and we're hopeful that it might result in a decent offer. On the other side - we found a house we both really liked yesterday - a bit high in the price range, but it was just the right size and had most of the features we are looking for. Plus, it is the size and type that we could live in it longer than we originally planned when we first started looking. But (you knew there had to be a caveat) - someone has already put in an offer and we have no interest in getting in a bidding war no matter how great the house. We will hear late tonight or tomorrow how the offer process is going. Apparently the buyer submitted what the seller's agent termed as a really low offer and the owners weren't happy and had aggressively countered. Whatever that all means in the end. For now - it means we keep looking. At first I though it would be fun, now I just want to get it over with. I want to move, put my stuff away and start enjoying planning for our upcoming arrival. I want to buy baby stuff darn it - which you can't do until you know how big the room will be.

I hope everyone else is having a nice relaxing summer. Here's hoping ours slows down soon.