Yesterday was a really bad day…..
On Friday afternoon we smelled an electric burning smell in the kitchen but didn’t see smoke or find anything wrong. None of the cords on the appliances were hot and everything seemed to still be working. Yesterday (Sat. morning) I woke up to water all over the kitchen floor and everything defrosted in my freezer. Then I realized that the fridge wasn’t cooling. We had discovered the burning smell, something went out on our 3 year old fridge! (Of course please envision this in the middle of painting the living room.)
I got as much as I could save into the big freezer and started calling the realtor and then the home warranty people. They said we had no warranty on record! So I called the realtor again.
In the middle of this, all of the sudden my washer starts making this horrible squeaking noise, plus I was trying to do orders and then my printer started acting up! By this point I was starting to have major anxiety problems. With the kids all running around, 3 appliances down (remember the dryer broke a few days ago) and trying to paint I was getting overloaded.
On the next call to the realtor she tells me “now don’t panic” (yeah right) “but I just got a call and you have a showing at noon. ” I just knew that was going to happen. She said not to worry about it that she told them the fridge had died and were were painting so the house was a mess but they were really interested in our house and had sold theirs so they wanted to look at it.
I was starting to have a major meltdown. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me because 2 hours earlier I just told Mike how I hadn’t felt that good in a while. I started a new supplement and I think it was kicking in and making me feel better. Well Mike gave me some herbal anxiety pills he used to use to help calm him down from his old job and would you believe I started choking on it! We (mom, Mike and I) just all burst out laughing! We could just see it, “Woman dies choking on anti-anxiety pills!”
So we got over that, mom hung the clothes on the line, Mike started calling the repair people and I was still trying to get orders done. Well, no one works on appliances on the weekends around here and guess what, it’s a holiday on Monday so they don’t do it then either.
We gave up on the fridge and painting and Mike took the kids and Mom and I got the house cleaned up to show. While we were doing that I realized I couldn’t stop shaking. I finally figured out that I think I was having a reaction to some other new supplements that I started too. Thankfully we figured that out so I knew that I wasn’t going crazy.
As we were cleaning the house it started to downpour. I mean a HUGE downpour….with my 2 loads of laundry on the line! I just couldn’t believe it. We just had to leave the laundry. As a matter of fact it’s still on the line because it was too wet to bring in and do anything with.
Mom and I got the house all cleaned up and we left to get a bite to eat while they were showing the house. We came back because they said they would only be about 10 minutes and they were still here so we sat in the car down the street and waited…..for an hour!
They finally left and mom and I went to go inside (i had to go to the restroom really bad) and we were locked out of the house! I had forgotten and Mike had the keys on my keychain which he used to take the kids. Fortunately the neighbors let me use their bathroom and then Mike came home.
Then yesterday was a really good day…..
The realtor called and said they were meeting at 3p.m. and going to make an offer. Mom and I finished painting the wall in the living room while Mike went to my brother’s to borrow his tiny fridge so we could have some milk and eggs.
The wall turned out wonderful! It was worth the work! We waited around but I was in a huge amount of pain and was really sick from painting. I finally I got in the tub and then put on my pj’s at 5:00. By this point I was so sick and tired I could hardly stand up. Well, at 5:15 the realtor called and said she had the offer and would be over.
We ate dinner which was take out that Mike went and picked up and I laid on the couch until she came around 6:45. We got David in bed and listened to the offer.
It was $1,000 below our asking price, $118,000 and we had to close on June 22. We were going to accept it but the only thing was they wanted us out on closing. That would mean we would have to be all packed up before the papers were signed on June 22. Usually we ask for 3 days after closing to get packed up because if something happens and it doesn’t close all your stuff is in a moving van.
We spent an hour debating about what to do. That would mean that we have to find a house to buy in 10 days to close by June 22. So far we haven’t even come close to finding anything we like for a new house. We just didn’t know what to do. Do we sell it and be out from under this one even if we don’t have a new house yet? That would mean a few weeks or months in a motel. (We couldn’t stay with mom because her plumbing couldn’t handle 5 more people.) Plus we run our business from home, where would we set that up at?
After an hour of going back and forth and me getting so sick from my adrenaline rushing that I felt I like was going to fall off the chair we decided to have faith and we signed it. We had been praying for a quick sale and God sold it in 11 days so we figured He must have something out there for us.
So…. our house is SOLD and we have 10 days to find a new one. Wow, this day was like a big roller coaster! I went to bed 3 hours ago and still can’t sleep. Please pray that we can find a new house. I really don’t want to be living in a motel with our stuff in storage but I don’t want to panic and give in and just “make do” with another house like we did with this one.
It will be interesting to see what happens!
Tawra
