After two (almost three) long months of planning and packing, the time has arrived! We are moving! For the past month we have been working on packing up all of our belongings. It's so weird, because when we moved into our house we had empty rooms. Now, our house is completely full.
Steve and I both laughed (after we were done packing) that it took a lot longer to box everything up than we ever could have imagined!
The movers came Thursday morning, and Wednesday night we were still scrambling to finish up. Thankfully, my parents came in on Wednesday and helped us out. I don't know what we would have done without them.
The movers arrived around 10:00am and stayed until 7:00pm. Two trucks were filled to the max and it took a crew of about 5 men to do it all. It was a LONG day to say the least. My parents took Hudson and our dog back to there house around noon so they wouldn't be around when all of our stuff was being moved.
After everyone had left, Steve and I looked around at our empty and very dirty house.... It was so weird to see our home, the place where so many memories were made, reduced to a shell. We didn't dwell on it long though, because we had a lot of cleaning to do. Steve and I went ahead and vacuumed the whole house and cleaned the bathrooms. We finally left a little after eight.
Walking out of the house for the last time and pulling out of the driveway was bittersweet. It's really hard to put into words all the emotions we were feeling and thoughts we had. Leaving meant saying goodbye to the past. It was the period at the end of a sentence on the last page of a wonderful book. I don't know if that makes sense at all, but it's the best I can do right now.
Steve and I had dinner and drinks at Josie's near our "old" house. After dinner we stayed the night at a hotel. I'm so glad Steve didn't insist we stay at the house and sleep on the floor. I need to sleep in a big soft bed. I was so tired! Steve was too. We ended up sleeping in until 9:30am!!! Living on the edge people! haha
Friday we were supposed to close on both properties. Our closing on our old house was SUPPOSED to be at 9:00am and the closing on our new house was SUPPOSED to be at 11:00am. Well, two days earlier everything started unraveling. We found out that loans hadn't been submitted to underwriting in time for many parties and closings were up in the air. WE WERE LESS THAN PLEASED. We ended up closing on our old house around 2:30pm. The new owner and her children were/are so nice. We talked as if we were longtime friends. After that closing we headed over to the closing on our new house. We were told strings had been pulled and we would be able to do a dry closing. Well, we got there and the attorney didn't have the paperwork and we were told we couldn't close until monday!!!!
Steve and I lost it! Everything fell apart even though we did everything we were told to do ON TIME. PEOPLE WE WERE WORKING WITH DROPPED THE BALL. The closing date had been set for over two months and they still didn't get it done.... AHHHHHHHH We had already switched over utilities and had the movers were coming on Sunday! Everything was such a mess.
I'm still mad that everything went wrong, but our realtor was able to work it out so that we could keep our move in date (sunday) . I am very thankful for this. We will move in then close on the house the next day (monday) AND because of the colossal screwup, we no longer have to drive back to lexington on monday to close. Everyone from the bank, realtors, and attorneys will be driving to our new home to close there. We are very happy about this. Never in a million years did we think this was going to happen, but it did, and thankfully it looks like everything will work out.
So, that brings us to today. It's Saturday night. We are watching the Pacers game and getting ready to move in to our new home TOMORROW!!!! We are so excited. Hopefully I'll be able to sleep tonight and be ready for another long day. :) We really hope there are no more "surprises" and everything goes smoothly.
To Be Continued....
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