It's Official......We're for Sale

Our current house is "on the market".

We have been so busy cleaning it up over the past week. We found a really cheap painter who changed our plum master bedroom to a more neutral beige color, we got new carpet (which sounds so easy until you prepare for new carpet to go in), I personally borrowed a co-worker's floor buffer and cleaned the grout in my kitchen. The difference is unbelievable. It looks like a new floor.

Now we wait...the market has definitely slowed in our area, so the realtor wanted to hurry up and list it in order to get some exposure. So, all of us get to practice cleaning up after ourselves. It's actually been kind of refreshing to see the house so clean and clutter-free. If we happen to NOT sell it (which we hope will not happen of course), we'd be fine staying here and learning to live in the close quarters. But we are optimistic and we have a little bit of time yet!

On our new house, it's definitely coming along. We have our "pre-sheetrock" meeting next week. After that happens, all the exciting stuff starts to fall into place. We get to see all the neat stuff we picked out at the design studio a couple of months ago.

Other items on the homefront include:

• Brittney's first day of school is tomorrow....that would be FOURTH grade. Oh my goodness. We had meet the teacher on Friday and she has a 2nd year teacher. She is young and full of energy. She seems energetic and ready to go. Brittney remembers her from last year and wanted to be in her class.
• Tonight we are going to the WIGGLES LIVE. I managed to get the boys down for a nap just now, so hopefully they will rest up for the big show! We've been telling them all week that we're going, but it won't sink in until we actually get there.
• Jace and Cade are going to a new mother's day out school starting September 5th. We have their meet the teacher on September 4th. It will be an adjustment for them, but I think it will be much better for them. So, we'll see. But this week is open and nana has them all week without any school or Brittney. She will be ready for them to go back to school on the 5th.
• Steve is back to work as a teacher tomorrow also. He went on several interviews for assistant principal positions to no avail. It seems that these school districts just post the jobs as a formality and already have someone in mind for it. PLUS you have to know someone to get your foot in the door. So, he's going to teach again and have some extra conference time for administrative training. He's fine with that.

All of the kids are keeping us hopping. The boys are either fighting like cats and dogs or loving all over each other while giggling nonstop. It's a toss-up. Brittney has been very bored this past month. The summer was extended this year and she really felt it. She's very ready to go back to school.

Here's Cade helping Jace put his "fi-flops" on. It's funny how Cade can do this independently but Jace can't.


Here they are practicing for their future band...


AND they are SUCH helpers in the morning for daddy. They're going to miss Daddy now that he's going back to work. They're going to also miss Sissy. She is just SO good with them.


Here's Brittney's pick for the first day of school outfit. It's a HUGE decision to make...I mean after all we are KEARLEYs for goodness sake, we MUST be stylish. (I hope the skirt pulls down more). She can already wear a woman's size 5 1/2 shoe! I am just in disbelief.


Wish us luck in keeping this casa CLEAN. It's going to take a miracle!