Dreams Do Come True

It seems like an appropriate title for what I hope to be a series of blogs about our lives while building our dream home. I'd love to make a Blurb book about our journey so we can look back on it in 15 years and laugh at how ridiculous I was. 

Well...hopefully while we build our dream home.

I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. (That's a saying right?)

I keep waiting for the phone call saying..."yaaa....the sale fell through. They aren't buying your home anymore. Delete you Pinterest board and enjoy picking up the pieces of those shattered dreams."

We close in 19 days. I hope to hell that doesn't actually happen. 

I have put off packing because I don't want to get it all packed and then not move. I didn't want to jinx it. 

Well there is that and the fact that I can't get much packed during the day and by time bedtime stories are over I'm ready for bed. Parker now has his own room in the basement thanks to his brother being too big of  a distraction at night so I'm not able to work down there when the kids go down. (good excuse right? Don't mention to me that I have a whole second level to get packed.) 

So what is the status of our life right now? 

Crazy town. 

I am currently driving Parker to a bus stop 17 minutes away and picking him up from said bus stop. We had been debating on where he was going to start the year for what seems like forever. Our home inspection results didn't come back until a few days after Barneveld registration so being the pessimist that I am...I enrolled him there.  You may be wondering why that has anything to do with registration. We have had *awful* luck with home inspections. Ok..just when we were trying to buy a house. But still. Scared. 

I was still trying to figure out how I could open enroll him to River Valley for 3 weeks and not totally over extend myself in the process of getting him to school. There was an option of driving him to Spring Green to get on the shuttle bus up the the Early Learning Center...which was doable since I'm at home but that is a 25 minute drive...at least. Which in the morning that is hard enough..but cutting into nap time at the end of the day would totally suck. (Didn't know at that point that we would have to cut Jensen's naps out the day school started. Ya...that has been fun.) 

My old friend Erin suggested that I look into a bus stop in Arena...and low and behold there is a stop 17 minutes from our house! She literally solved this problem and made all the anxiety about his school melt away. Well that is not true...my anxiety about his school trip could be its own blog post. #eyeroll

I find myself just standing in the kitchen staring at everything. There is so much to do and I'm such a procrastinator. 

I'm not ready to take the pictures off our walls yet. I mean..now that I just realized we only have 19 more days I am kind of itching to get out of bed and start throwing things in boxes. But the thought of taking down all the pictures I love looking at every day..and then not seeing them for a year makes me want to cry. 

Yes. Im a dramatic hoarder. 

I'm aware. 

Marriage status: Still going strong. I'd give us a solid 8.9 right now. Not a 10 because I'm annoyed that he'd rather watch the Brewers than lay on the couch and watch Justified with me. Give my about 15 more days and I'm sure we will be a solid 6.2. I'll probably be yelling  a lot and throwing bubble wrap around like confetti. He will be calmly telling me to calm down because we still have 4 more days to pack. I'll yell at him for being so calm. He will roll his eyes and give me a cape and tell me that I'm super mad now. Totally joking but have you guys seen that floating around Facebook? I laugh every time I see it. 

Anyways...stay tuned for more. There is a lot to come. Wish us luck.