We're Moving...Maybe...

So I know we have been pretty hush, hush about our pending move but that is mostly because we still are not 100% sure that we are moving (and we are afraid to jinx ourselves).  That's right...we are officially 4 days from "moving day" and we are still waiting to hear from our realtor as to whether or not we can sign a lease.  Being the planner that I am, this is all a little more stress than I can handle.  We have made it through the home inspection, the buyers are conditionally approved for the loan...and therein lies the hold up.  They were "conditionally approved" pending the outcome of the appraisal.  For some reason the appraisal was not scheduled until last week and we are now just waiting on the lender to get back to us.  Apparently the lender and the realtors do not feel the same sense of urgency that we do (Seriously people?!  We don't know where our kids will be sleeping in 4 days!!!!)  We have been told that the lender believes that all is well but we have not seen anything in writing.  

So where does that leave us you may ask?  It leaves us in this all consuming sense of wait.  At this point our house is mostly packed.  This may seem pre-emptive but who can pack up their entire house in 3 days?  Not us!  So we had no choice but to take a leap of faith (or a gamble? You decided.) and just start packing. We have told the children that we are moving (my children need time to get used to big changes).  We took another huge gamble but putting a deposit on a rental house.  The non-refundable deposit took the house off the market for a couple of weeks so that we have time to discover whether or not we can actually sign the lease.  The bright side of that is that if the sale does go through we will have a place to live in 4 days.

So in 4 days we will either be moving into our rental home or we will be at our current house with everything packed in boxes, two children who are expecting to move, and we will have lost our deposit!  Sigh...at least we didn't pack the wine yet!

Please keep us in your prayers!