old house/new house

Before we knew it, preschool was out, our other playdate buddies had moved and we were looking at our last month in Alabama. June was a little bit of a blur. I was still living by myself (as I had been since March) We did have summer preschool on MWF and went to the pool almost every T/Th. Let me tell you, dragging THREE little kiddos to the pool everyday between nap schedules in not an easy feat, but it was worth it. They LOVED it and it got them out of the house(and helped me keep it clean!)

We tried to play with some buddies from school and just soak in life while we could before all the transitions happened. The last 2 weeks were full. The 3rd week in June, on a Thursday, (1 week before our closing) we found out that our buyers lost their financing. We were devestated. If this didn't work out, we were back to drawing board and had missed 2 months of prime summer selling time. Mike was in South Carolina in Charleston doing a meeting when the call came through...he jumped in his car and was in Bham by that evening. We just knew that we needed to be together during this crisis. Well, our AMAZING realtors, Sherri & Deana, went way overtime for us!!! They pulled out all the stops and found a local bank who not only took the loan, but took it and still got us to our closing on June 29th as scheduled!!! UNREAL!!! We owe them so much for being the BEST realtors ever!!

So, Mike was home with us from that Thursday until the following Friday for closing. We visited with our good friends: Matt, Lisa, and Julia twice, had a going away party the Saturday before and again the night before we moved, we spent time just hanging with neighbors, and went to a little night swimming as we had no furniture. 

The movers came on Tuesday to start packing us and packed through Wednesday afternoon. On Thursday they loaded the truck and were supposed to only be there until noon on Friday to pack beds and bedding...of course, as we would find out about this move...nothing seemed to go as planned or on schedule.