Breathe in... breathe out

For posterities sake, and for anyone who actually reads this blog curiosity's sake... we're selling our house.  I've mentioned it here before.  We've had it on the market 113 days to be exact.  About 3 weeks into that, we accepted an offer, contingent on the sale of the buyers house.  Five or six weeks into that, they pulled their offer and took their house off the market (health problems), so we were back to square one.  Before that, we had put offers on two other homes and would have put an offer on a third, but hesitated, and it was off the market.  We haven't been out looking since we were no longer under contract.  I still look online.  Sometimes every day, sometimes once a week.  It was beginning to feel like we were never going to sell, and started talking about what we were going to do in the next 6 months about having the house on the market.

Then, we had a week where we had a ton of showings.  More than we had had since we first put it on the market.  We were out of the house... a lot.  One of those showings turned into an offer.  A non-contingent, I'd-like-to-close-by-the-end-of-the-month offer.  After a couple of back and forths, we are under contract, with a likely closing date of July 31st.

So... we have 26 days.  And we're on vacation for 10 of those.  In between those dates, we need to pack the house.  Find a house.  Possibly close on a house?  Most likely figure out where to house our homeless family for a week or two (best case scenario) in between houses.  8 mornings of swim lessons.  2 afternoons of work for me.  A dentist appointment.  Packing and planning for an 8 hour road trip to Denver, two different stop over there, then a 8 hour road trip to Alpine, WY to spend 5 days at the Goughs new cabin.  A work trip or two for Justin.  If I'm really lucky, a morning of getting my hair cut and colored (yeah right).  At least two days worth of Uhauls.  Possibly find a storage shed, maybe an extended-stay place.  Oh, and the day before we turn over keys? Justin is on his way to Tanzania for a week.

So, like I said... breathe in, breathe out.