For Sale

Yep, we've done it. We have put our house up for sale on the hopes that we will get the house that we found last week. We found a house down the road in Pickerington that is in one of the nicest and best school systems in Ohio. Even though Preston wont be in school for another 2-3 years its hard to pass this opportunity up. The house sits in a cul de sac, across from a pond with ducks, walking path and a playground.

We have cleaned the house from top to bottom, we have decluttered so much that Preston is going through toy withdrawl from taking 75% of his toys out of the living room and storing them in the basement. Trinitys room has been cleaned and all of the McDonalds, Wendys and Burger King cheap toys are now gone, who knew we ate out that much. I have scrubbed, cleaned, dusted, and shampooed the carpets. They say you are supposed to continue cleaning the carpets till the return water comes back somewhat clean....ha, that will never happen and I would like to know if anyone has actually seen that with their own eyes. My water never comes back somewhat clean in fact Im starting to think that my carpets are somehow connected to a black hole somewhere and Im sucking all of its nasty stuff through my carpets.

We informed our loving and wonderful neighbors of our plans prior to the sign going up in the yard. It was not easy and very upsetting. Good neighbors are hard to come by. Our neighbors come by to talk, bring cookies or cake over, we each borrow tools or other items from one another and have attended parties in the back yards of each others homes. It will be hard to leave such great neighbors.

I can surely bet that the next few weeks and months will be very trying for all of us. Im sure that getting a call 30 minutes prior to a showing and having to rush to clean up the kids rooms, put away toys, empty the dirty dishes from sink and get everyone out the door will be the true test.

Wish us luck!!!