SOLD! And other updates

As you can probably tell by the name of this post we got our house sold ALREADY! Guess we won't have to worry about the open house now thank goodness. It was so unexpected and everything has been a whirlwind since my last post. As I said before our house went on the market last Thursday. We didn't have any calls Thursday or Friday. That kind of worried me but we also were prepared to have it for sale for a while. Then Saturday evening we all went for a walk and when we were walking back up to the house a lady and her mom were pulling in the drive way. Well they had been trying all day to get a hold of their realtor so they could look at our house with no success. Then they decided to just drive by the house and pulled in the drive way. I stopped and talked to them and they asked me some questions about the house. They they asked if they could come in and look and of course we said yes. Both the girl and her mom loved it and said they would come back with the realtor and the girls husband and that is just what they did Sunday evening. While they were looking at the house and we were out and about our realtor called and had someone else who wanted to see it. We were glad for that because we had it all cleaned up and ready to show already. After the first couple got done they told our realtor they would be putting in an offer that night. She called us around 10pm with their offer. We actually were kind of leaning toward not selling it Monday morning because we had found NOTHING that we liked at all and really hated to sell ours that we really do like just to settle for something OK. But when the buyers came back and decided they would pay full asking price we couldn't turn it down. Monday evening we met with our realtor at 3 properties we had been wanting to look at. We really liked the second one and was by far the best thing we had seen for the money. So as of right now we are suppose to close on everything the 27th of August but we hope to move that date up if things go well. Our new house is a new construction and is all ready to move into. The yard did need sodded, fenced and underground sprinklers installed but that is in the process of getting done right now. We are very excited and totally didn't expect our house to sell in less than a week. Now I have just been busy trying to get all the paper work to the appropriate people to get things finalized. We also found out yesterday that TJ is going to be living with us permanently. He is officially our foster son and we couldn't be happier. When the agency called to see if we wanted him I said of course and didn't even have to ask Scott. When I told Scott later he was really happy too. TJ doesn't know yet but will find out tonight at a meeting and it has been hard to not talk about it. We have almost slipped a couple times. Over the next couple weeks we won't have him much because he is going to be going and visiting some family in western Nebraska then at the end of next week he is going with his mom to stay with some other family somewhere else here in Nebraska. His school won't be far from where our new house is so that will be nice. Its very hard to not get attached to the kids that come in our home but we always have to try and remind ourselves that they will most likely go back to live with their family. We will enjoy the time we have with them and hope we have some positive influence in their lives. The girls are really warming up to TJ and now Tate demands that TJ gets her in her car seat and out when going somewhere. Today when Keely got up from her nap we all went in to get her up and she wanted TJ to get her out. Its hard to explain to the girls all the different kids coming and going in our house but someday they will understand. Tate did finally get over her pain crisis for the most part. We never did have to go to the hospital for fluids or IV pain meds. It seems about every other day she is waking up in the mornings and her hands are hurting but one dose of ibuprofen takes care of it. She still has the bad cough and if that doesn't clear up soon I may have to take her in. Hope everyone is enjoying their summer even though most people I have talked to are ready for school to start again.