Friday: The big Father’s Day Morton’s dinner was AMAZING! We got all dressed up and headed downtown to enjoy our complimentary dinner for the contest I won. The server was excellent but Mom and I felt bad when they presented our entrée options and the lobster they showed was still alive, trying to crawl of the plate onto Dad’s lap! He was too cute to eat! We had shrimp and bacon-wrapped scallops for an appetizer, salads, filet mignon, sautéed mushrooms, grilled asparagus, the fluffiest mashed potatoes I've ever had, cheesecake and lavacake for dessert. It was fabulous!!
Saturday: Last week we distributed a flyer about our house to start to get some traction on it for selling. In just about an hour we had a bite and someone who wanted to come see it ASAP. Yeeeeaaaahhhh… wasn’t counting on that and so we worked our tails off organizing the basement, packing up stuff, cleaning out closets, etc. It’s not even near done (we crossed off only 5 of 24 to-do items) but now that they’re officially coming to tour on Wednesday of this week we’ll be full-out running to get stuff done. It's all little cosmetic stuff (ie laying new mulch) but there's enough of it to do that it's a bit overwhelming. Nicole officially can now NOT come until Thursday.
We also got to spend some time with Greg and Lindsay at their graduation party that night. Good times, good occasion! Congrats to both again!
Sunday: I packed up a lot of Nicole’s stuff while Jim went to visit God for us at church. As soon as he got home we headed up to see the Erdahl’s PHAT new house in Troy. It’s gorgeous! We were mostly there to celebrate Dr. K’s graduation from medical school (HOORAY!) and hang out with their friends and family. Fantastic food, beautiful house, hot couple.
I'm going to try to talk my boss into letting me take a half day tomorrow and Wednesday to prepare for our tour. So much to do and no time to do it in with work in the way and all! :)
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Darling, if you have the baby before tomorrow, you don't have to worry about asking for the time off. :) AND, Jim can postpone the house showing by explaining his wife went into labor early. :)
Is Nicole going to be baptized?
yes, she'll be baptized methodist... sometime... (??)
Martha makes a great point!
That's so great that you already have interest in your house. When will the house you are building be ready?
The dinner sounded delicious! You need to write an essay about me and get us a free dinner too! :)
I'm being nosey (I know, I know. shouldn't discuss politics, religion, or love or whatever the banned topics are). Are you Catholic, methodist, other, or non practicing? Or is Nicole following daddy? I'm just curious about raising children where one parents goes to service, but others don't (my sister and her kids go, her husband does not. But the oldest should just be getting to the age to question that, I'm not sure it's something that has come up yet).
so how does this move thing work? Are you hoping to move simulataneously, or would you throw everything into storage temporarily (I'm assuming you're not planning on having both mortgages at once).
I think everyone needs to write about their dinners. mmmm. food.
official stance: i was raised catholic but don't prefer that religion. Jim's a practicing Methodist and sometimes i practice with him so that's the direction Nicole will head. Ironically i think jim could care less if she was baptised at all...
Regarding the move, if this couple bites on our house than we'll push the move date for them out as far as possible and see how much we can move the finish date on our new house up (it's currently scheudled for the 15th). If we have a lag time between the two we'll either try to rent a apartment on a monthly basis, hit up dear old mom and dad, or find some hotel arrangement for a few weeks (booo to this option). Hopefully everything will work out and we can move out and immediatley in in September!
honey, if need be, leverage the grandchild with the parents as much as possible if needed (do they want their sweet granddaughter staying "indefinitely" in a dirty hotel where they can't spend great quality time with her?)
:)
Wow! You've got A LOT ahead of you. In Austria pregnant women are officially and by law not allowed to work for the two months before the scheduled birth date. Weird, but I like helping people move and do "cosmetics" on the house. So I'd come and help...! ;)
Congrats on the bite! Can't wait to hear the details and if they bit bigger (offer).
Damn... we are totally living in the wrong country. I want to live in Austrailia!
Don't be stressing or doing too much... :-)
I want a steak...
How's your builder? Builders around here are notoriously late in getting houses complete - we were supposed to move in to ours mid-September, but it ended up being December 20, and my mom still advocates that that's only because she was at the site every day... Sorry that's not helping, I'm sure...
Glad you are getting Nicole baptized, though. Regardless of what she ends up believing when she's reached adulthood, it's important that she be exposed to something - I'll never understand these people who never take their kids to church, synagogue, whatever, and then expect that the kids will actually be able to choose...
I agree with Viki there... atleast she'll be exposed to something. Have something as a backbone.
Congrats on the bite too!! That's exciting but as I can physically see here... I know you're slammed! Good luck! And seriously let me know if you need any help!
You can come live with us. MAkes for a long commute for Jim....but you and I could hang out every day! WHOO HOO!!!
And we have plenty of room as I'm sure you noted as you walked around......
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