We are On!

The market that is. We listed with Joe Mullins Friday and love this pressure being taken off my shoulders. He is doing an open house for us this weekend and I think it is at the perfect time, right after the neighborhood yard sale. Hundreds of people will be gracing our neighborhood with their presence to peruse others peoples stuff. What better time to check out a flyer from my house and fall in love? Our mls is #175330 if you want to see the fabulous job he did with our listing.

In other news, are anyone elses kids crazy? Mine are constantly competing, constantly. This morning it was over a princess bowl and spoon for cereal. It then moved to the # of strawberries they could each have. On, and on, and on, and on! Wowza. I am exhausted and it is 8:56am. Craziness! They have been fighting like there is no tomorrow.

Luau. My brother graduates from college on Friday night and then has a luau Saturday afternoon. My parents have gone the whole nine yards with this party. Kahlua pig, turkeys, fried rice, ect. We shall be fat and happy this weekend. Very proud of him and he told me that a former NFL football player will be giving the commencement speech, Drew Bledsoe?. Anywho, not sure if we will go to the commencement. Three kids sitting for hours might not be the smartest. I also challenged my brother to go naked under his gown. I think he is seriously considering it. WHAHAHAHAHAH! Hilarious! Pullin' a Patch Adams at graduation, classic.

C and I have been disappointed with cable TV. Nothing seems to be on in the evening. We will probably cancel when we move. Seriously dont watch the thing, and anything we do like we can catch on hulu. While we were flipping through the other night we did catch a bit of the amazing race and they were waxing the contestants. Oh my! There was this one set of guys that was crazy hairy. When the ladies pulled the wax off it was soooooooo funny. It looked like they were ripping up carpet with the color of the wax and the amount of hair stuck to said wax. That is totally what C would be like. Have you seen the man, he is straight out of the 70's! I tried to pull up a clip from the show to put on here but came across a variety of inappropriate images so I guess you will just have to picture the rug of hair and immense pain.

I concede

We tried selling the home on our own for two months. At the end of that time period we contacted our realtor Joe Mullins to tell him our intentions of listing. He is amazing. If you are every looking for a realtor, he is the one to go with. He made contracts for our kids to sign in helping to keep the house in order. They will be responsible for their rooms, checking the number of flyers and helping any other way that mom and dad want them to. Love! When our house goes under contract he will pay them each $25. Above and beyond in my mind. I never would have thought of having them do that or asked for Joe to do something special like that but he did.

Within the first three hours he had 36 agents view it and it was forwarded to 20 clients. EEEEEEE! So exciting. We had one showing 5 hours after listing and having another scheduled at the 24 hour mark. Fun fun fun. Prayers would be appreciated as we continue in this journey. Here's to moving (literally) to bigger and better!

Tootsies!

At this point in the pregnancy (I think I am 28 weeks, gasp) reaching the toes is quite a feat. Last night I strained to reach my toe nails to clip them and then handed the hubby some polish remover and new polish and asked him to make me pretty. What a good husband! He painted my tootsies. Was gonna post a pic but after taking the pic I realized my feet werent the most beautiful. So maybe later after they are sufficiently lotioned.

On a seperate note, we are conceding to trying to sell the home on our own. I am meeting with our realtor today to see what we need to do to get it on the market and how much that is going to cost. I will admit, I have no shame and am going to ask for a discount. Is that reasonable? Dave Ramsey would say it is. Anywho, it never hurts to ask, right? Nothing more to share for now. I will let you know how the meeting with the realtor goes tomorrow.

Feel the Love

Sometimes when I cook I pour extra love into the dish I am making. I truly feel myself loving my family through the meal I know they are about to enjoy. I might make something that I know is one of their favorites or sautee up some mushrooms for my husband. It is a special treat when one of them says that they could " taste the love" in that dish. Having recently watched Kung Foo Panda, it makes me think of the secret ingredient in the noodle soup.

So, one of my quirks is that I cannot deal with my feet feeling dirty. This usually comes into play right before bed, but sometimes throughout the day, I need clean feet. Also, I dont like my legs to touch, but that is a different issue. Anywho, yesterday C was taking a moment to wash his feet and asked if I would like mine washed. I do have fabulous feet to I obliged him. As I sat there and marveled at this wonderful husband I have I felt extremely blessed. I dont know that he had washed my feet before. He carefully took time to rub my toes as he went and then dried them off so I could put slippers on. Totally felt the love in this simple act. My husband is a mustache rockstar just so everyone knows.

Something fun that we did yesterday was that we went to the park with a blanket and basked in the sun. How often do you do that? We NEVER do it. One of the great things about getting out of the house is that you cannot do work in the house if you are not home. It forced us to relax. We do not do that enough. God has been showing us lately different ways to relax, enjoy him, and to pour into our family. LOVE! When we got home I said, "Where can we go now?" LOL, I am hilarious. But seriously I did not want to be home with the chores that awaited.

Open House Today 1-3

So we have not tried a Saturday open house, thought we would give it a shot. Havent blogged in a while. Do you know how much work it is to keep a house in "show worthy" condition with 3 1/2 kids? Egads!!! I ran around like a mad woman this week with appointments, birthday preparations and just general shopping. Grocery shopping is one of my absolute fav's because it is a justified time of money spending, love!

I am getting big like a house, stink. I had hoped that since I was in such great shape before getting pregnant that my body would cut me some slack this time.....not the way it is happening. Oh well. It is as though my body is in revolt and insists on putting everything back on in a short time frame and then adding more baby weight. Ugh! Oh well, I lose pretty well after baby so I will hope in that. Last time being pregnant so I am gonna go BIG......literally.

TV. Love the show The Voice. C and I have pulled it up on hulu all week and enjoyed watching it again and again. Such talent based soley on the voice, love. C keeps spending money on artists he is coming across and liking. Bless that man, he spends money two and three times before he realizes I am trying to keep us in a budget. Oh well, as my friend says, C'est la vie. Good thing I love him so!

Ok, gonna go get the house ready for the potential buyers! Pray please for our home to sell.

Nuttin' Honey

I dont feel like there has been anything blog worthy to type about lately. We are still trying to sell our home. I am still pregnant. Girls are still in school. Here are some of the things I have been doing: Not going to the club Gearing up for homeschooling next year Keeping my house at an immaculate level of cleanliness (super easy with kiddos! NOT) Staying on top of the laundry Having open houses every 2-3 weeks Spending quality time with the fam in the evening Walking to the mail box alone in the evening with C Letting the girls clean up the kitchen after dinner, LOVE Eating......lots of things, from black licorice to eggo waffles Sleeping a lot Loving that my second trimester hair is being cooperative Operating a cash budget, LOVE Couponing Loving that C is growing a stash, totally hot! Running kids here, there and everywhere Saw my Dani friends new house Visited the state capital with the fam. Got out just in time before someone tried to storm the governors office, eek! Cooking dinners that my family loves! That about sums it up for now. Will write more when I have something witty to say~J~

Waiting

On so many things. Waiting on a buyer, waiting on a move, on a baby. Exciting times really. God is showing me patience, **grumble**. As you may know I usually pray for others to change rather than me to be patient . I have moments where I get anxious and need to do something, but God has brought me back several times to a place of contentment. By no means am I suggesting that I do nothing in the mean time of this "wait", but I have to "prepare the fields for blessing." So that is what I am doing. Just being ready with my house, being a good steward with my resources, and taking lots of time with my family while we wait. Please pray for God to bring our buyer! C and I have been blessed with lots of family time lately. Even when he is working a bunch, we have had our evenings together. The Parkers bought us a wii back in January and wowza, that is where our time has been spent. We recently discovered Mario Kart and have not been watching tv. I like a good criminal show every now and then, but mostly our time has been on the wii I am not gonna lie. C and I are a bit competitive. Rant***winco is full of criminals. Good grief. I like their bulk food bins, but for the love people. Parent Your Children! These are not free sample bins. Get your kids greasy hands out of there. I will not be eating out of there, less black licorice, for some time. Sick! Bad parenting, or not parenting really pushes me over the edge. C had to pull me out of the section as I was patroling the kids coming thru and grazing. Really preterbs me! Then we go to our car and there is a shady guy combing the parking lot. Really? Criminals! C called it in and wouldnt you know, the guys disappeared as soon as the 50 got there. Ugh! Not going to winco.