Celebrating

Yesterday was the official closing on our new home.  It has been a VERY long year for our family.  It was filled with headaches and hurdles just with building this house, but that journey has come to an end.  There are a few things that our builder needs to come back to "fix" and complete, but he's got 2 months to get the punch list we create finished.  3 of our 4 master bathroom sink light fixtures don't work so that's a BIG issue for us.  The painting was finished yesterday and the dishwasher was fixed as well.  The pool guy and the landscaper are both coming back this weekend to finish up some things.

Closing was a headache which shouldn't surprise us with the track record we've had with this house.  Our HUD statement changed FOUR times yesterday morning!  It was the bank's fault but at least it's complete and over with now.  After the 3 hrs it took to sign the papers, get the correct HUD, go to the bank to get a check in the correct amount, we decided we needed to celebrate with some Bloody Mary's.  It was nice to sit down and enjoy the moment.

After we finished our drinks, we headed back to our apt, we packed up some of our stuff - dry food, clothes, Andy's Saranac beer, etc to take over to the house.  They are coming today to pack up our apt.  It's currently 8:45 and they are supposed to arrive between 8-10 am.  I can't get use to "Southern time."  I'm so used to getting things started early and finish early.  At least we have what we need at the house to keep us functioning this week.

Pray all goes well with our move this week.  It's going to be chaotic and overwhelming for sure.