update

Just a quick update/excuse why I haven't blogged much lately. Well, for starters I'm 7 months pregnant, tired, still occasionally throwing up (twice this week) and often without a husband! Second, I've been packing because we are moving in less than three weeks! It finally hit me, so I started this getting to work this weekend. Third, when I am online, I have been looking at other things and not feeling creative enough to make a post. Lastly, the "How to Prepare for Nursing" clip was so great I felt it could stand on it's own for a while.

Here's a quick update on our move. We have a contract on a townhome and we close in two weeks! It's kind of neat how it all turned out. First we made an offer on a townhome, and came within $1000 of an agreement, but it was honestly just too much for us, so we backed out. In the meantime we came across a great deal on a short sale, but that entailed the risk of waiting nearly two months to have a yes or no answer. The first town home we made an offer on was our back up. However, while waiting for our short sale it went under contract with someone else! Our second back up also went under contract. The short sale wasn't looking very promising (their realtor never even bothered to return our realtor's call--not once), so we were feeling discouraged. Then we saw the first townhome back on the market again, for 10,000 less. We were nervous it would go quickly as well, so we ended up cancelling out short sale contract and giving the first townhome our original offer--which they countered only slightly higher, and several thousands less we were at before. So it seems to have worked out in the end. I am pretty sad to leave this nice house we're renting, but we knew this day would come. It is exciting (and scary) to take this next step of buying a townhome.

Now the tricky part will be getting everything done in time!