July 2, 2008

I’m So Excited!

It’s starting to hit me that this moving thing is really happening. It could be because of today’s events.

I spent the day packing about 20 boxes of things that we won’t be using, loading them into the van and taking them to one of our new storage units, aka my parent’s house. We also wrote out the biggest check we’ve ever written (10% of our new home’s price), which means we’re eating only things in the pantry closet for the rest of this month. Along with the check, we signed the official paper removing the contingency and giving our builder the green light to get building.

Our realtor is also making our appointment to select all of our exterior house colors, interior colors, flooring, cabinets, hardware, lighting fixtures, etc. for next week. NEXT WEEK! They should be breaking ground within the next two weeks once they have the permits and we’ve signed off on the final plans. They have committed to a settlement date on or before October 20th, which is much better than I thought it was going to be (Our 10-year wedding anniversary is October 17th so that is pretty cool).

I also started putting things on Freecycle to get rid of things we don’t want to take to the new house and hopefully get some moving boxes for free within the next week or two. It’s working fabulously so far. One woman’s trash is definitely another person’s treasure.

In addition to all of these other signs that are pointing to this really happening, I have also started to break out (as in teenager face all over again). Who says that the stress is gone once your house is under contract?

When Halloween rolls around, I’m going to be one happy girl.