Good Things Happen

You know how I posted about the potential of owning two houses seeing as how we bought one before ours was even listed? Looks like we won't have to worry about that anymore.

Why? Let me show you with a timeline.

Thursday Evening

House goes on the market

Friday

One showing in the evening

Saturday

Nothing. Boo. 

Sunday

SIX showings (see below for details)

Monday Morning

TWO OFFERS!!!!!

That's right! Our realtor called this morning and we had two offers, both very aggressive as they knew another offer was coming in. We are beyond excited for two main reasons: A) we won't have to carry two mortgages and B) we are getting what we wanted, but more than we realistically thought we could in this market! On top of that, we had our home inspection with the new house this morning and it all checked out ok minus a few minor things that come with buying a 4-year old home. Crazy to think that just 3 weeks ago we decided to move to the burbs and here we are with our house sold and another already bought.

But just for shits and giggles, I'd like to re-live my day with you yesterday. It was probably one of the most stressful days in my entire life. I knew showing a house with a toddler and two dogs would be tough, but yesterday felt like it was 48 hours long. Literally.

Here's how it went.

8:30a - Dunkin for a healthy breakfast

9a - Groceries

10a - Clean for the first showing

10:20a - Take the girls on a jog during the showing

11:30a - Shower up for the day

12:15p - Clean again for more showings

12:20p - Lunch on the Panera patio with the dogs

1p - Run 2 quick errands

1:20p - Head to a friends house to hang out for a while

3p - Head home to drop off the dogs

3:15p - Aquarium with Drew

5p - Pick up dogs

5:05p - Pick up a healthy dinner pizza

5:10p - Head back to our friends house

7:10p - Head home

7:40p - The showing who was supposed to end by 7:30 is still in the house and we've now been sitting like creepers down the street for 20 min.

7:45p - Pull into the driveway only for the realtor to come out and say they are interested and waiting on their parents to come look at the house.

7:50p - Head back to the park

8:15p - Running on empty, way past Drew's bedtime, but watching the beautiful sunset at the park.

8:40p - Finally get the green light to head home.

8:50p - Got Drew in bed.

8:55p - Got myself in bed. Zzzzzz

I mean really? 6 showings in one day? Dealing with two dogs and a toddler away from the house all day is just exhausting. Not to mention Drew only got a 30 min nap in the car, and how trying he became around the 5pm hour. BUT, in the end it was well worth it.

And without further ado, here's the front of the new house.

I'm also including Drew's awesome outfit today to kick off Hawaiian week at school. 

It actually was purchased in Hawaii from Derek's parents roughly 30 years ago as his souvenir.

Aloha!