Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 11:39 a.m.
So, things seem to be falling into place, miraculously. We'll see if it stays that way, or if they all work out the way it seems they might.
A month or two ago, our babysitter Lisa told me that her husbands job is being relocated back to their hometown, and they are going to be moving back to Minneapolis. I could tell she felt bad giving me the news, because the whole reason we came to her was because our first babysitter also moved away. At the time we were so upset and so bitter about our original sitter moving, and we told Lisa how we felt about it in not very nice terms. So I knew Lisa couldn't have been looking forward to give us the same news. I was upset naturally, but handled it pretty well in front of her. I was a wreck when I left though, thinking about how we'd have to go through the whole process again...interviewing more wierd people, deciding which one was the least wierd enough to leave our child with. Anyone who's been through it knows what a gut-wrenching ordeal it is.
However, in the time between then and now, I've basically been pretending it's not really going to happen. (hello Denial, my old friend!) Lisa and her husband Aaron have to sell their home they are living in and based on what their realtor told them for that area, the average is 90 days on the market before anything moves. So I knew we wouldn't have to be in much of a hurry anyways. So with everything else going on with selling our house, our new house under construction, and all the illnesses we've been having...I pushed that to the back of my mind and haven't hardly given it a second thought.
The other day, Lisa told me that a neighbor of hers is going to be starting a daycare in her home at the end of the summer. She is pregnant now and due in June, and wants to be able to stay home with her new baby and her four year old daughter. Lisa said she really likes her and she's a wonderful lady with a very nice home. She won't be taking kids in until August sometime, so that could make things a little tricky for us until then, but I think we could swing it. I still don't know much about her, re: how much she will charge, how many kids she wants to take, etc.... but I'm excited at the prospect of this working out.
As far as our deal with the houses...we got an offer in a couple weeks ago, and things have been rolling with that. It was a very hard decision, knowing if we were doing the right thing accepting what their offer was...but I think it was the right one. They are going to let us rent back to them for two months, so that was a big plus for us. They want to move in the last weekend of April and so we were planning on moving out the weekend before that. Because it's hard to tell exactly when our new house will be done, we were unsure of whether or not we'd be moving into the new house, or somewhere temporary for a week or so. Wellll...we just got a call for our pre-drywall meeting, and that is going to be next week. The time frame for the house being done is seven weeks after your pre-drywall meeting...and that puts us right towards the end of April!! SO, that looks like it just might work out as well!!
Hopefully I'm not jinxing all this by writing about it. Yes, I am superstitious. Cross your fingers for us!!
