Another week??

How is it that I have not blogged since last Thursday? Don't you hate when bloggers don't update more often? I do. I check blogs often. Sometimes TOO often. Hoping for some news. A funny story. A giveaway. Fabric images. Photos of quilts. Tutorials. I like to read how busy everyone is creating. I like to see pictures.

Well I have been busy. A little creating, a little shopping,a little buying, a little house hunting, a little organizing. NO PICTURES! Can you believe that? I know. I'm bad. I'm sorry. I will take care of that. Soon.

We found a house that we all really liked. We made an offer. The seller started to make a counter offer (which we expected) and was called away by another realtor telling him that another offer was on the way. He never finished the counter offer but our realtor saw what it was. Finally the time came for our offer to be accepted or countered or rejected. It was rejected. The listing price was changed. 30k HIGHER! Hubby asked to speak to the guy face to face. Hubby hates the back and forth. He hates the waiting and the game playing. The seller agreed to meet with hubby and our realtor. He had a counter offer ready. Yeah, I know. I am confused too. His counter (of sorts) was lower than his original asking price and well within what we were prepared to pay. Hubby was with him for NINE minutes before he called me to say "We got it!". All very confusing and stressful. We are so glad that is over. Now to get all the ducks in a row - appraisals and lending and inspections and packing. UGH. To move about 7 miles. We are not going to list this property until we are moved out. I like that part.

The part I don't like - we are downsizing. We have LOTS of 'stuff'. Too much stuff. Do we have a garage sale? Give it away? Donate it? Toss it? Pack it and move it? WHERE am I going to put everything? The kitchen is much smaller. Let's just say this guy was not thinking when he built the kitchen. He was single then. Yeah, 'nuf said. Right now I have sooooo much cupboard space and pantry space. I said it would be fine. I said I would make do with a smaller kitchen because of all the places we looked at - this is the only one that we all liked. A lot. Even if I get rid of lots of the 'fluff' I still won't have room for all of the essentials.

A little story. We moved into this house in 2000. I hated the stove/oven. HATED IT! I complained about it all the time. It was a big commercial gas monstrosity. I had never cooked on gas. I liked my prior smooth top electric. Hubby loved the monstrosity because it had a griddle. That is the only part that he used. When I would turn on a burner it would go WOOOOSH and the flames would come way up. Hubby insisted that didn't happen to anyone but me. Yeah, whatever. Finally, in 2007, hubby bought me a new stove. He was willing to tear apart the basement walls and bring in electric but to his shock I said no. I would go with a gas stove. A new, easy to clean, electric ignition, convection oven, warming drawer, gas stove. I love it. LOVE IT! Now I am moving. Guess what the new house has. Go ahead, guess. It has an electric Jenn Air TWO burner and grill stove top, electric oven. NO drawer for storage OR warming. But TWO burners AND I don't grill outside, why for crying out sideways would I want a grill INdoors??? I looked at hubby and pouted. He said we could easily bring in gas (propane) and I could get a stove just like the one I have now. :D Poor guy.

Crafty news - I made an apron last night! A young man we know is getting married soon and I am so sad that we can't attend the wedding. His fiance' is having a bridal shower this weekend so I made a half apron and sent it off this morning so it would be there for her shower. Hubby did take a picture of it this morning before I packaged it up. I just need him to take it off of the camera and put it on the computer. You just wait. One of these days the post is going to be PICTURE HEAVY!! Really!

Praise - WE GOT THE HOUSE!!! :D Prayers - We need to move into it. Prayers for our attitudes during all that lies ahead in this transistion. Prayers for all of those in the path of Ike.