After A Very Long Night

After my post yesterday when we had already made our initial offer on the new house, we had a total of six volleys back and forth with offers and counter offers for the new house. The last exchange of the evening yesterday was us giving a counter offer and requesting a 10 a.m. response.

It was a very, very long night wondering if the seller would stay firm or if he would continue to negotiate. It was all we could think about! "What would he do next...what would we do next?" we wondered. To "relax" and get our minds off of the intense house negotiations, Karl picked a movie to watch. It was a major suspense movie and the two of us had racing hearts and were the exact opposite of relaxed but at least it got our minds off of the house.

I woke up this morning to a ringing phone and the news that the seller did indeed counter offer and came down to meet us half way in our remaining $5,000 gulf. So, Karl and I have signed paperwork and all that is left is seller signatures and our deal is done!

I am thrilled, thankful, glad, happy, relieved, exhilarated, ecstatic, overjoyed, pumped, giddy!

Tonight I am going out on my first Mami's night out in what feels like a million years and I am really looking forward to it. I need the break really bad. I am totally overstimulated and tired. I love and adore my kids so much and need some time away from them so that I can appreciate them more. I need to refresh really bad. Anyway, I am going to go out for a quiet dinner alone and start a new book that a sweet friend gave to me called After The Boxes Are Unpacked: Moving On After Moving In. It looks like a really great book - what a sweet gift!

Praise the Lord for His provision of a home for us - here is what it looks like - it is kind of a light beige/yellow and grey. If you have an idea for a name for our new casa, please pass it on!