Settling in for the long haul

Well the for sale signs are officially up in our yard as of today. Hopefully we'll start to see some looky loos in the next few days. Our real estate agent wants to do an open house next weekend depending on weather - don't want to do it if we are due really cold temps or a foot of snow. This weekend will be spend tidying up some more. We've gotten a large amount of neating done ( with the exception of the basement) but we want to clean carpet in the stairs, and in the sun room and of course get that basement where it's somewhat walkable.

I've been cleaning almost non-stop the last couple of days. I've told the agent my plan is to keep the house clean enough that with a couple of hours notice I can have it show ready. If that actually works or not I don't know. Officially we are to have 24 hours notice though. I just want to make sure anybody who wants to tour through can get in asap before they change their minds.

Today Sonny Boy's friend from school came over for a playdate. It's his first official playdate at home. He's gone to the friends house before but they've never played here. Thankfully the weather was wonderful and they could burn off lots of steam in the yard and I walked them down the street to the playground too. I discovered Sonny Boy is quite bossy and has quite a lot to learn about being a gracious host. We'll have to work on that, we haven't had too much practice with that. All in all it went well and I think both boys had a good time. Strange coincidence is that the boy's father is an Armenian immigrant which may come in handy if I need some correspondence to Ukraine as he speaks Russian. In fact they are the most multi-lingual household I've ever met as the mom is Spanish speaking, the father speaks Russian and Georgian and they are both fluent English speakers as well, though sometime the mom looses me if she starts speaking quickly but that might simply be because we are usually talking over kids etc. Sonny Boy's friend is fluent is Spanish and English, but I don't think Russian is spoken too much but the child does know a little.

I realized that I never gave results on the genetic testing that was run on Igor while at the feeding team visit. Thankfully all was negative so that was good news. Looking up the syndrome was a mistake and had a huge range of issues that it could include from very minor to very major so it was something better left till the bloodwork came back. Like I said DON'T GOOGLE THAT MEDICAL JARGON!"

Hubby had his big work meeting which calmed a few fears but opened up more. For now we are still sitting in limbo as to what will actually happen. The good new is that if there are layoffs in his department they will most likely be temporary - but how temporary is the problem - 6 months would be ok, we'd squeek by, longer who knows? And how long do you consider it no longer temporary but permanent? So for now we are just hoping work stays the same, we sell the house and live somewhere cheaper to stash away some money for a few months and when things settle out more we'll be in a position to buy something that is closer to meeting our needs. Don't get me wrong, our house is certainly adequate, we'd just like a garage, a kitchen with a better layout, another bathroom, and a larger living room. We can do with out things we have like a sun room, a fourth bedroom (though that's nice for company) and a formal dining room.

In the meantime wish me luck and sanity to keep the house clean and a flush buyer who falls in love at first sight and gives us 10K over asking! ha ha