On many fronts!
First, last Saturday dad received my father's day card in the mail. But just mine! He didn't receive the grandpa card or the gift certificate I bought for him over the phone to a local restaurant around him. WHAT?? I knew the restaurant was going to mail it since the charge hit our credit card but where was it! And Maddy's card, too! I mailed it the same day as mine. Well, yesterday he received the gift certificate so that was good and today he received Maddy's card. Don't ask me why it took extra days since I mailed them together from the same mailbox.
Also, the gas is finally turned on at the new house! YIPPIE! About fricken time! I don't think I mentioned that we had to put off the home inspection again (from Tuesday AM to Friday AM) because the gas wasn't going to be on overnight. So then we had to put it off again from last Friday to this Wednesday since they weren't sure they'd have the gas on by Friday either since they were going to turn it on 'sometime' on Friday. Matt goes by on Saturday with Maddy to the park and just to take a walk and sees a 'sorry we missed you' sign on the front door! Sure enough! The gas isn't on and the gas company left that sign. Well, needless to say, I'm irritated. Matt calls the realtor and he calls the owners realtor and lays into her about this. It's been a week and we've lost 1/3 of our time until closing in one week with NOTHING being accomplish. He tells her we're going to start looking into backup houses soon... anyway, that lights a fire under her rear and we're finally making headway!
So tomorrow AM Matt meets the home inspection guy there, the termite guy and also four painters for estimates. I will be home with Maddy while the electrician fixes the two things that came back on our home inspection. Then I'll probably drive out to the house to meet him there.
Also, we had our offer accepted for the piano in the rec room of the house. It needs a good tuning, but it's in great shape. Maddy will be thrilled.
On top of all that, I've started packing. Today I packed away most of the knick knacks into baby blankets (who needs bubble wrap?). So I now have six boxes packed of the most tedious stuff. I still have our whole china cabinet which I swear will take a day and a half. *Sigh* I'm thrilled that with as clutter free as we are because of selling most of the stuff is already packed in boxes in storage or neatly packed here. There's really not THAT much stuff to pack!
I also found out that our Home Owners Associations docs came back clean for the new house too. Now they need to work on having our radon issue fixed (it's quite common over there) and have a fan put in.
I've figured out what I want to put into all the main floor of our new houses windows. White wooden 2 inch slate blinds-not mini ones, but the regular ones. I will most likely do the same ones all the way around the house. Now I need to start getting estimates on that.
While we're on the subject of estimates, we're getting estimates for our moving company. We've picked a date and now we just need to find a company. We should get moving on carpeting, too.
My mom is coming down the in July to help with the unpacking! I think she's really excited to see the new place and I know I'm really excited to have a helping hand, even if just with Maddy so I can unpack.
Today was pretty uneventful over all. Just packing, some organizing, cut Maddy's bangs, blah, blah...normal daily stuff. It was nice to kind of have a down day and I think Maddy liked it too.
Ok, off to wait for Matt who worked late tonight fixing a network problem, but it's done! He'll be home all day tomorrow for the house stuff.
Tea of the day: Orange Sun tea and also Cinnamon spice tea