Perks

Yep, it's official! Our house is on the market! We have packed stuff, moved stuff out, thrown lots away, recycled and freecycled plenty, and cleaned the place from top to bottom over the past ten days and now we are awaiting the future owners of our house to walk in and make us an offer.  This new arrangement means that we are at the mercy of the Coldwell Banker scheduling program person who sets up all the appointments when agents want to come by with their buyers.  We made some preferences known about the earliest and latest appointment times that would work for us as well as trying to avoid showings during Finley's nap, but the truth is that we are eager to sell the place and will do whatever we can to accommodate any and all showing requests.  Gulp.  Little did I know that this would start immediately after going online last night...there was a broker open house from 10:45 to 11:15 this morning, followed by a showing at 12:30 and I just got a call for another today at 4:30.  Not to mention our two open houses this weekend and another showing at 4:30 tomorrow.  Phew.  

Finley and I kept ourselves busy this morning with a trip to the post office and a visit to where he will start camp on Monday, followed by a trip to Stride Rite to return some sandals he did not need for camp after all.  It was the first of many schlepping excursions we will be taking in the days ahead...but there should be some perks to all of this craziness, right?

Right! We had lunch at Friendly's and after Finley struggled his way through some fries and chicken fingers (he was too busy dancing around singing "I've Been Working on the Railroad"), our kind waitress took his ice cream order: Vanilla with some M&M's on top :)

 He managed to pick and scoop out all the M&Ms first and then had about three bites of ice cream. Which was just fine with me since we did have to rush home for a nap before the 4:30 showing would have us back out in the world.

So, here I sit blogging while Finley snoozes and if he's not up by 4:10, I will have to wake him up and we will head over to Henry and Simon's house for some kiddy pool fun in the sun.  I suspect we will be cashing in lots of favors with friends in the coming days when we need a place to escape to, thank you Mary for being willing to host us first!