On the Go

I was having a rough day last week and texted Kyle saying how sick I was of the kids because they undo everything I try to do! It's frustrating. I was trying to clean up and they were getting into everything and messing it all up. I felt like I was wasting my time and I have been more stressed lately and that never helps. Chelsea goes from scooting chairs around so she can reach the gum to dumping toys out of baskets so she can turn the baskets upside down and stand on them to reach other things to playing with the phone/iPad to climbing on the table to playing with the computer to getting into the dishwasher to bugging someone else. It's crazy. She hardly sits and plays with toys. She is on the go. Well, this same day Preston and Lindsey were upstairs and supposed to be having quiet time but instead starting slamming doors. I was irritated because Chelsea was sleeping up there so I quickly made them stop. I wasn't happy. A couple hours later I got a text from a neighbor saying that Kate's school is on lockdown and there are Sherriff's everywhere, but no one knows anything. Yikes! I started to get nervous and thought I had cursed myself for saying I was sick of my kids and now something really bad might have happened. You know how it goes when your mind wanders. Well, come to find out they did the lockdown because there was a home burglary in the area and they kept the school on lockdown until the police caught the suspect which they did. So it turned out to be fine, but it was a quick reality check! I need to take deep breaths and remember my kids will only be little for a little time instead of thinking this is never going to end. This 18mo-2 yr stage is hard though b/c they are so busy. I remember with Lindsey thinking she was crazy and into everything. Remember fingernail polish painted and spilled everywhere?! Yeah, not good. {Sigh}

House update: we had the buyers back out 3 weeks into the ordeal. They had financial reasons. The buyer's mom was in the hospital with no insurance and they needed to cover the costs. They wanted to roll in the closing costs to the purchase price but was concerned about the appraisal coming in high enough. We offered to pay for the appraisal if it didn't come in high enough, but they still turned us down. They were uncomfortable with the payments too. So whatever. It was discouraging, but at that point we still hadn't really seen any homes we liked to make an offer on. Well two days later we get another offer from a couple that previously had looked at it at the open house. We were going to do another open house a couple Saturdays ago, but ended up cancelling it at 11am (open house was going to be from 12-3 so it was last minute cancellation) when the buyers accepted our counter offer on Saturday morning. So now we are back under contract with new buyers and closing April 4th. We've looked at a few houses, but none that we love. Recently, we looked at one that I liked more than Kyle did. The yard was small so that's a bummer and there were a couple other things we didn't like. Kyle thinks something better will come on the market. I sure hope so because the time is ticking away slowly but surely! We might be homeless..ahhh!