FINALLY

Soooo we moved into our farmhouse on Monday!  A day that honestly I never thought would actually get here.  It's been a crazy whirlwind and we have mostly loved it...here's the lowdown:

We packed up our truck on Saturday and had everything packed.  Sunday we spent cleaning our house for the new owners.  I scrubbed and cleaned and worked my booty off all the while taking care of a sick kiddo running a fever and being very naughty and clingy.  Monday rolled around and we loaded the rest of our personal toiletries mopped the floors one last time and said goodbye to our Bloomington house.  Now...it should have all been cake from there on out right??? 

Nope.  The buyers had their final walk through at 8:am and the closing was at 9:am.  We were on time for our closing and waited and waited.  The buyers were about 15 minutes late.  They finally came and sat down and the man was very short and rude with us but the woman was friendly and chatty.  Their realtor never came in the room and then started pulling our lawyer and realtor out to chat privately.  We knew something was up at that point.   Our realtor pulled us into another conference room and told us that the buyers were being very unreasonable and said the house was dirty and had taken video of all that was wrong with it and that they also didn't believe the work on the deck was done because it snowed the day before covering what we had repaired.  The "dirty" part of the house was specifically the oven (I had ran the self clean mode and forgot to sweep out the ashes), and the fridge which I had scoured but got a phone call (from our realtor telling me that the buyers were asking for something else unreasonable and I needed to accomplish it before closing) and got distracted and forgot to clean out a relish jar ring from one of the door shelves...Seriously that was their biggest complaint.  They wanted $250 for Molly Maids to come and clean the house for them.  We told them no...they told us that it was a deal breaker and they would stop signing if we did not give them at least $200.  I was bawling at this poing Chris was livid and our lawyer was hugging me and really completely shocked this was happening.  I told them to take the $200 and we would not sign an agreement that we would repair the deck if it did not hold up to their standards.  Then they tried to tell us that because the MLS said that we had "garage door opener(s)) that we needed to give them both openers.  We only have ever had one for this house so we had left it on the kitchen counter.  They did not believe that with a 2 car garage we only had one and said we were lying, and also didn't understand that the MLS is NOT a contract!  More bawling and stress and all of the sudden they signed and ran out of the building before having to confront us, but not before Chris was handing the keys to our realtor and explaining which one worked which lock and I said "Let them figure out the Damn keys themselves", our door was open and they heard because I got a nasty look from their realtor!  Good...jokes on them when the snow melted we left them huge doggie gifts all over the dog run!

I was so completely emotionally drained from that hour and 45 minutes the rest of the day was a blurr of signing papers, walk throughs, and McDonalds double chocolate muffins.  All is done now!  YAY!

Our well guy started digging the minute we got keys and found no water!  So they have to dig again in another spot and hopefully we will have water by the middle of next week.  In the mean time we are drinking bottled water, washing in boiled water, and eating out.  

The kids love our new space, and so does the dog!  

I am missing my biggest kid who is staying with friends while she finishes up her last two weeks of school.  

More tomorrow as I am exhausted!

The Farmer's Wife