Never mind!

Well, the seller backed down, LOL. Yesterday morning, our agent called us to tell us that the seller re-thought her dumb decision and that we are back on towards buying the house!! We had the inspection Thursday afternoon... which went pretty good. The inspector had two concerns... 1. roof looked like it had hail damage and 2. the hot water coming out of the tap smelling like sulfur/rotten eggs. We had a roofer come to the house yesterday, and he determined that yes it was hail damage and estimated $7,200 to replace the entire roof. The water thing is likely just replacing the anode rod (whatever that is, LOL) which is max of about $50. We have $500 listed on the offer for repairs, so obviously this goes a bit over that! Likely though, this might have already been claimed on her home owners. At any rate, we are hoping this isn't something that makes this women back out again!!! I look at it like... no matter what she does, sell the house to us or someone else who might pay more money, anybody with sense would demand a home inspection and the roof would come up!! The roofer said that he has gone to a lot of houses for the second time with new home owners and given the same hail damage estimate from a few years ago. I know that it would be nice to have the money from the insurance company and not spend it on the roof... but this is a situation where we would have a hard time getting our insurance company to cover the cost since it is documented on the inspection report before we purchased the home. Note to self... if we plan to not own this house for too long (which we are on a 5-10 year plan), we probably should get any type of damage like this fixed when we have the insurance money, LOL. Good thought for future!

Anyway, we are moving forward to the October 19th closing date. Mark is going to get home from Reno on the 18th, so he is here in time for closing. I have a buys afternoon planned that day between my OB appt and Kaya's 2 yr appt, but my mom will be here too to help with all of that. We have not done any packing yet, LOL. That is today... pack Mark and Kaya for them to leave for CA tomorrow morning, clean the house some b/c it is a complete mess (baby shower at your house on Tuesday night Meredith.. don't forget, LOL) and start packing the spare room/den. I want to get almost all of that room packed and then get it ready for my mom to sleep on the bed that is buried at the current time. Then my mom is flying back with Kaya and myself on Oct. 15th. My mom is the BEST person to have around when you are moving!!! She doesn't mess around at all!!! She already said that most of the week after next, she will take Kaya to school and then pack during the day. How easy do I have it? LOL Seriously, I am SOOOOOO grateful that she will be here (oh, this was planned for her to come that week anyway to help out some while Mark was gone, but now she is going to stay another week too!!). I will obviously help when I get home from work. Of course that week is a wild one too. Kaya's 2 year pictures on Wed the 17th and then the Light the Night walk on the 18th. Phew.... I am tired just thinking about all that needs to happen before Halloween!! Oh yeah, I decided to make Kaya's costume too, LMAO! I just couldn't find one that I really liked to buy for the money, and I found the cutest thing in Parents magazine. There is no sewing involved and it looks super easy... of course, you know how that always goes!

Well, time to get to packing, cleaning, and doing the mounds of laundry! I hope everyone has a WONDERFUL weekend!! The weather is just BEAUTIFUL!!!! Enjoy it!!