The last few weeks have been difficult for me, and I've gone through a lot of emotions. I knew that moving was going to be hard, and honestly I don't know exactly what I was expecting, but I just didn't think it would be like this. I knew it would be an adjustment for the kids. Leaving their friends, making new friends, starting everything over, but I forgot about everything we would need to do here before all that can happen.
Charlie is gone Monday through Thursday and doesn't take Andy to school anymore. Now the girls can't sleep in and have to wake up early to come with me to take Andy to school. They are getting better about it, but's it's been a huge adjustment. Not only that, but Andy was fortunate to be one of two students in his class to be nominated for safety patrol. He is over the moon about it, but has to be at school by 7:15. Every single day. That's 30 less minutes of sleep the girls are getting on top of the hour I already cut out. I'm trying to get them to bed early at night - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Because of the lack of sleep, and I'm sure other things, Sarah is not only not nice, she's downright mean. She yells at me a lot and blames me for anything that goes wrong and cries and whines about everything and isn't fun to be around at all. That isn't getting better. Amanda isn't much better. Friday Charlie went with me to take the girls to school. Amanda threw a fit when I picked her up without Charlie. The entire way home she said "I wanted Daddy to pick me up from school." Daddy was technically home, but he was working. It didn't matter, she didn't like it.
We had a good amount of showings the first week the house was on the market, one or two a day, but the last week has been dismal, nonexistent. So now we're using the time to take the few comments we've received and fix up the house even more. Yesterday I went to Target four different times (three different Targets) to try to get enough knobs and drawer pulls to put on our kitchen cabinetry. I went the first time by myself, the second time with the girls and the third and fourth time with all three kids. They weren't bad, but they weren't good either.
Today I ordered 38 door handles so we can replace them throughout the house. Ours are gold and gold is way out. Apparently people can't just buy the house and order their own door handles, I have to buy them because they can't visualize what new door handles will look like. Either that or they don't think they should have to buy the door handles. Either way, we've had lots of comments about the gold and no offers on the house. I went through and counted them all and just looked at my sheet and realized I ordered two too many. I can't count. Hopefully I can send them back. My parents are coming to visit next week, guess what you're going to be doing Dad!
I'm not a very fun person to be around. I'm worried about the kids, we haven't sold the house, we don't have any place to live in Denver, we have no idea what school we want the kids to go to, we still haven't narrowed down what neighborhood we'd like to live it or if we want to buy or rent and my husband is gone four days a week. Every time I run into someone I know they ask how things are going with the house. They aren't going. We are in a holding pattern. Nothing is happening. The house is immaculate and ready to be seen, but nobody is coming to see it. I'm frustrated, tired and mad that we haven't made the best remodeling decisions (you know, all the changes we've wanted to make over that last six years that we are finally making for the next people that are going to live in the house). That's how I'm doing.
BUT...that's how I feel today. Tomorrow is another day, and that one will suck too, but in three days or four, or maybe a week or two, we'll get an offer on the house and have more answers and the process will start moving again. We'll make more decisions and have a better idea what our next steps will be. So if you see me don't be afraid to ask me how things are going, just be ready for a long answer.
First material that we are going to discuss is granite. This is actually a really durable material that looks like new even right after years of service in your kitchen countertops. It really is not porous and doesn't get affected by stains along with other stuff.
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