The sordid details…<\/h2>\n
A couple of weeks ago, a few days before I was supposed to close on the sale of my house, we started packing our moving truck. By the day before closing, everything we owned was packed into it like a puzzle, and I was busy sparkling and shining the house for its new owners-to-be.<\/p>\n
And, that<\/em> afternoon, our buyers asked for an extension. (If only they'd said something just a few days sooner!) Of course we agreed, because really, what else could we do? We know things happen. We were assured that this was only a minor hiccup with their loan process, and not to worry….everything would definitely be ready for a new closing date of 1 week later.<\/p>\n Since I had already withdrawn my kids from school, and since spending a week sleeping on the floor didn't seem that enticing, we decided to go ahead and drive over to the town we are moving to and live in a vacation rental for the 10 days that we had before closing on our new house. That way, we could at least get the kids started in their new schools.<\/p>\n So with 2 kids, 2 cats, a dog, and everything we owned in a 28 foot U-haul, we lived in a vacation rental for the next week. And that's when things got really<\/em> ugly.<\/p>\n The day before the new closing, we were told the buyer's loan had fallen through. The day before closing.<\/em> Again!<\/p>\n So, we had to drive back, put everything back<\/em> into our house, and get my kids back into their old schools.<\/strong><\/p>\n First, I immediately put my house back up for sale, and within 2 days, I had 3 offers. I accepted the best (and quickest-to-close) one, and we now have a new closing date for about 3 and a half weeks from now.<\/p>\n And second, the sellers of the house we are buying have been supremely<\/em> gracious to us throughout all of this, even though they have been just as inconvenienced as we have, and should probably just plain hate us a lot right now. Instead, they've agreed to wait this extra month for me to close with my new buyer.<\/p>\n And, the rental house we stayed in really DID give us a little vacation that we hadn't planned on. Although we were feeling completely stressed out the entire time about everything, it's really hard not to relax at least a little<\/em> when you're right next to water, and I sat out on the dock pretty much every day. I even made lots of ornaments. As my good friend Shannan just told me recently about making them, “It really is therapeutic!” :)<\/p>\n The timing for our new move will be pretty horrible. From now until Christmas, things here at The Ornament Girl HQ get busy, busy, busy,<\/em> and now we'll be throwing a move right smack into the middle of it (November 17th). But, I've started working on new ornaments and kits anyway, because I am planning a big sale on December 1st. (Make sure you're on my email list<\/a> so you get the details, and the discount.)<\/p>\n At least, I'm doing my best, since my workspace looks like this (haha):<\/p>\n By the way, if you have a moving nightmare story, please be sure to share and help me feel a little better about mine. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I say nightmare because guess where I am? NOT on the Gulf Coast! I am still in my house. Actually, a better way to word that is that I am BACK in my house, after moving out, and then having to move back into it, 10 days later. Sigh. (<— that’s a sigh of exhaustion,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}But, even after all of that, we did get really<\/em> lucky on a couple of fronts.<\/h2>\n
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