It Took A Year, But...

It's been a crazy week since accepting the offer on the condo. Countless papers to sign, hoops to jump through, and decisions to make but the end is in sight! The inspection was on Wednesday and Appraiser came through Thursday so for (hopefully) the last time EVER we went through the oh so familiar routine of loading up all of the baby gear and hauling it to storage and cleaning the condo till it sparkled on Monday and Tuesday. We took a raincheck on Valentine's Day and instead grabbed Taco Bell inbetween running errands and cleaning - romantic right? The flu struck on Tuesday and then Wednesday got a little frantic when the inspector found a natural gas leak behind our dryer which could have been there for years without us knowing it. The rest of the inspection went fine and Brian found a guy to come out and fix the leak so should be in the clear on that end. The buyer is relocating so he also decided to buy our bedroom furniture (minus the bed) and a few decorative items in addition to swiping our Crate & Barrel dinning room set and grill last week. Fine by us - more cash on hand and less to move and the bedroom stuff is cheapo IKEA and Target pieces that we picked up right after college. So for our next place we will only have a sofa, bed, coffee table, and bar to furnish the place. Excited to decorate with a clean slate but it will have to be a slow, room by room process.

While it seems silly, putting up these two pictures on Thursday was a huge deal for me. It's been over a year since we have been able to truly live in our own home. To get the condo market ready we took down all our personal pictures and belongings. Over 50 times and often on a moments notice we would whip the place into showing shape and get kicked out while people came through which is like living in a museum...with a baby! So once we cleared the inspection I figured it was finally time to frame a couple Ethan pictures and get them up! Am also hoping they worked some sympathy magic on the appraiser as this is the final hurdle to clear. If the results come back favorable we're good to go for a March 25th closing!