Hello everybody!
Look! I’m actually alive! 🙂
I’m sorry I vanished from the face of the planet (or at least via my website or answering or returning any phone calls!) for the past month. I THOUGHT things would settle down after my crazy contest weekend, but, alas, I was wrong. SO. VERY. WRONG.
We’ve been working our tails off getting the house fixed up to list. It was my Spring Break week last week, but I had to teach on Monday still to make up for the previous Monday that I had to take off because of grading for contest… then Tuesday through today still we’ve been working from dawn to dusk on projects. Dad was here on Saturday to help with the carpet and stairs (which, of course, turned into a much larger project than we had anticipated) but now it looks awesome! Patsy and Jen also came on Saturday to help paint and pull staples from the flooring and steps as well as countless other random projects. Then Bakers and Jen and Patsy were all back again on Sunday to help with more endless projects… (THANKS AGAIN EVERYONE!!!! ;))
I will say, however, that by the time Sunday (Easter) rolled around I was so emotionally and physically spent that I started crying 3 times during worship team rehearsal before church. I was so tired and sore and stressed about the house being a mess and all the projects we had left to do–it wasn’t a pretty sight. Luckily I was able to keep myself in check each time and wasn’t a blubbering fool on stage!
Anyway, you get the idea. We’ve done a lot of projects. And we’re tired. 🙂 I’ll stop being dramatic about it all.
I’m hoping to have some pictures to actually start showing you. We have just a small handful of random odds and ends to finish up. We were hoping to have those completed by today, but the bathroom upstairs has proven to be a MASSIVE headache of unexpected problems. But, no worries, since Tim finally got that all straightened out tonight. But it did end up taking us an entire day and a half longer than we had expected… so we’ll get back to the random odds and ends tomorrow.
And with all that said, we’re hoping to list next weekish. We’re just waiting for the stucco guy to come and repair the outside and he can’t do that until it warms up to above freezing overnight on a regular basis, which it isn’t yet (whine, whine). But soon! Soon!
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I remember how exhausting it was when we were getting ready to move and doing all sorts of house projects. You’re going to be so relieved when it’s all done!
I can’t wait to see the pictures!!
I’m looking forward to pictures, too. It sounds like you are right on pace for listing it by mid-April.
Wow! That all sounds tremendously exhausting and like quite the laundry list of things to do to get a house ready for sale. All I can say is you are doing things for the next owners that were not done for you and you are superstars! When we bought our house there was a huge stain (about 1 foot by 2 feet) on the downstairs carpet and we asked the previous owner just to clean it and she was aghast at our audacity to ask for that. I guess the market really is a buyers market if sellers have to go through all of this! :o)