Teaholic not quite anonymous

So, it's been quite a whirlwind here. After we got notification that our house would have a bid on it on Friday, Matt and the realtor went looking at houses on Saturday. They didn't find anything that was amazing. On Saturday night/Sunday morning I found a house that I really wanted to look at and kind of had a 'hunch' about. Matt loved it online as well. It was a lot of house for the money (the yard definitely isn't anything to write home about). So when we saw it on Sunday we LOVED it. We saw a couple other ones as well, but none of them compared--especially for the price tag. Just for an example--a friend of Matt's live's around the corner (quite literally) and he paid 120 more for his house than we bid for this one. Now, his house has more yard, better flooring...etc. but still, ours is a steal.

So we put a bid on it once our contract for our house was ratified and then we waited the rest of Sunday and until 5:30 on Monday to hear back. Honestly, I am NOT cut out for this waiting game!!! We did get our counter offer today and it was for a decent price so we accepted it. We go in tomorrow AM just to put our initials on a couple of pages.

Man, I really don't know what I'm going to do with that much space!!! :)

Maddy and I had a really nice time today. We went to Burke Lake Park and road the train and carousel. She especially loved the train! She loved the train so much she insisted we wait in line for tickets. All her little friends were playing on the carousel but that didn't matter to her, she wanted to wait for those tickets! The picture above is Maddy and I on the train. Doesn't she look happy? We even stopped to have ice cream. She had such a blast! She was so excited to see her friends again, too. She loves Annabelle, Hailey and Nate.

Speaking of friends, we had our first real babysitter tonight! My friend Christine came to sit for Maddy so I could go to Matt's colo move celebration dinner. I wanted to go (since it's on the company's bill anyway) but also to support Matt in all the hard work he's done. I forewarned Maddy about the babysitter and how Christine is a lot of fun. Well, when Christine got here Maddy was really excited to see her. She wanted to start playing with her right away. She did cry when I left but only a little bit. I guess they had a really good time and Christine said she was really sweet and playing with Maddy was nothing like playing with her two boys.

I had a couple martinis tonight along with dinner and I made Matt drive me home afterward. (Also why I have insomnia right now after our storm woke me up.) We did get back late, which I wasn't happy with since it was my first babysitter and we were arriving almost 30 minutes late! But Christine didn't seem to mind.

Remind me that I need to remind Matt to get that dinner tonight reimbursed! Morton's steak house definitely isn't inexpensive and add in appetizers, dinner, drinks and dessert for 12 people and also then gift certificates for those who couldn't be there and.... well, yeah, let's just make sure he gets that reimbursed tomorrow! :)

Ok, I'm back off to bed. Have a good one, everyone! I still can't believe everything fell together as well as it did with the houses. Let's just hope the next month up until closing is uneventful for both places and goes smoothly. We sure have been blessed!

Tea of the day: Earl Grey