Images of Motherhood
4 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mommy can do anything!
8 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot!
12 YEARS OF AGE ~ My Mother doesn’t really know quite everything.
14 YEARS OF AGE ~ Naturally, Mother doesn’t know that, either.
16 YEARS OF AGE ~ Mother? She’s hopelessly old-fashioned.
18 YEARS OF AGE ~ That old woman? She’s way out of date!
25 YEARS OF AGE ~ Well, she might know a little bit about it.
35 YEARS OF AGE ~ Before we decide, let’s get Mom’s opinion.
45 YEARS OF AGE ~ Wonder what Mom would have thought about it?
65 YEARS OF AGE ~ Wish I could talk it over with Mom…
Author Unknown
Happy Earth Day!
Put on your Earth Shoes, plant a tree and recycle something!
How Earth concious are you?
I try to be more and more. I do drive a huge SUV. I hate that it’s a gas hog, but I can’t fit all of us into the smaller cars and the newer eco-friendly SUV are $60-$65K!! I mean really??!!??
To balance that out, I recycle everything. My recycling bin runneth over. I usually have 2 bags of actual trash for the week. After we move I’m planning on composting a lot of that.
I take my own bags to the store. I have collected about 11 of them now. My favorites are my Cart Helper bags http://www.reusablebags.com/store/packntote-grocery-cart-helper-bags-p-982.html
These bags rock! I also have a various store bags from Harris Teeter to Trader Joes. My family has started buying them for me. The bonus is, I get 10 cents off my groceries per bag.
Everyday I’m learning and trying to do more. I think those Hippies were on to something.
Repeat after me “Sell, Sell, Sell, Sell”
I got a call from my Ga Realtor today. I let it go to voicemail cause I don’t really like her all that much. I SHOULD get a new Realtor but at this point I just want the whole fucking process to be over and changing Realtors AGAIN would just delay that.
So anyway, voicemail.
She asked me to call her back as soon as I could. As soon as I could was about 4 hours later, but anyway….
At noon I got a call from the showing service asking if my house could be shown today between 1:30 – 3:30. yep, I got 1.5 hours notice. This past Sunday was my birthday and I celebrated from Friday through today. My husband was home all weekend and didn’t leave until Midnight last night. My house. Was. TRASHED!
I busted my ass, literally running through the house throwing things here and there. At one point I ran through the house pushing the vacuum in one hand and spraying a bottle of Febreeze in the other. The house was clean (enough) and I packed up the dog and took off.
After picking up the kids, I sat in the car and called Ga Realtor back. She said that the Realtor for the house we really wanted and put the offer in on called her today to ask if we were still interested. Seems the offer they accepted, the financing is shaky and the owner is getting nervous. They wanted to know if we wanted to submit a “back up offer”.
So, where we are now is, we are submitting another offer, still contingent on us selling this house first. We want to extend the contingency date. Originally it had us closing on May 21st and that’s just not possible unless we got an offer in the next week. I also want to talk about lowering our offer price since we were offering full price to begin with and they turned us down.
Regardless, we can’t do anything with any house until this one sells. Lets all chant to the internet gods that the people who looked at the house today love it and want to buy it.
Tell me I’m gonna get through this
I’m like a rubber band that keeps getting pulled at both ends. I don’t know how much farther I can stretch without breaking.
I had a showing scheduled for today from 4-6pm. Today was also Double Header Soccer day which meant games at 9am, 11:15am, 1:30pm, and 2:15pm. It rained all night so soccer was canceled. I was woken up by the phone this morning, someone wanting to look at the house in 30 mins. There was no way I could get me and 3 kids up, dressed, the house tidied and us out the door (with the dog) in 30 mins. I told them that wouldn’t work, but I had a showing scheduled for 4 – 6 so if they wanted to try to reschedule around that time it would be more convenient. They said they would call back. They never did.
When I told my husband about this he asked “Do you want people to be nice or do you want to sell the fucking house”, I hadn’t realized that wanting more than 30 mins notice to show was the same as not wanting to sell the house. If HE was home he would have told them to come on over. I was just being “difficult”.
The 4 – 6 people didn’t know up. I was out the door with 3 kids and a dog driving around for 2 hours (in the rain) and they didn’t show up. But I’m supposed to jump anytime someone wants to look at the house whether it’s convenient for me or not.
The other thing….My husband is scheduled to work in Atlanta next week. I asked if he would look at a few houses while he was there and he acted put out. “I have to work all day. It would be after 6pm before I could look at anything. Do you think the Realtor wants to be out all night looking at houses with me?” Well, for starters…IT”S HER JOB. If she doesn’t, you find someone who will. She’s been a Realtor for over 20 years, I think she knows how this works. I’m sure she’s shown houses to working people before.
The truth is, he doesn’t want to be involved in any of the “messiness”. He wants to just show up at closing and sign the papers. Keeping the house clean, arranging showings, looking through the web site to find houses to look at, going to the houses. All of that is supposed to call on MY shoulders. When I’m supposed to tour these houses, I don’t know…I’m over 400 miles away.
And that’s been our relationship for the past 7 yrs. He checks out, and I handle everything. He thinks his presence fixes everything, but it doesn’t. I’ve already laid the groundwork. He just walks in and gets the credit.
I don’t know if I’m going to make it through this move.
