Life has been busy. We leave for vacation tomorrow to Orlando and I’ve been busy all month (yes, it’s only 8 days) packing. Not only for our trip to ICRS (and a family vacation) but we started packing up our home.

After thinking, wanting, begging my husband to move, he (all or a sudden) found this house, a HUGE fixer upper. We put in a bid and started panicking about selling our cluttered home. So we’ve been packing books and stuff, and my hubby plans on having college students come to our home and pack it up while we’re gone. Well, at least pack up enough so they can put down carpet. My mom will be here the whole time, but come on girls, can you relate to my apprehension. Hubby assures me everything will properly labeled. I just hope my furniture remains in tact.

It’s taken us a years to get to the point to actually planning a move. We LOVE our 86 year old neighbors and stayed here mostly because of them. But when this house opportunity presented itself, we saw a great way to make some money on a home. We planned on fixing it up, living in it in a couple of years and selling it. But we first prayed that if anything was beyond fixable, if there was anything we couldn’t foresee then we wouldn’t get the house. Well, we heard… we didn’t get the house. I have mixed feelings. The winners could still decline after inspection. The previous winners did because the house has a septic system (Yeah, grosses me out just thinking about it) but hubby assured me he called people and did all the research and it shouldn’t be an issue for us. It was an issue for the first winners (not sure what you call someone who bids on a home?) because they wanted to build this big fancy patio and the septic tank wouldn’t allow them to.

So we could still get the house. In the mean time we’re packing up this one! Not fun, but necessary and hopefully in the process I’ll get to clean out a lot more junk…

I’m not sure what my internet access will be when I’m gone, but I’ve got posts scheduled, so this site will be active. I just won’t be able to interact with my faithful readers as much as I’d like. But I will be getting to meet a fellow interrupted writer in person and I’m excited about that. So if you’re going to ICRS, let me know and maybe we can meet!

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