How has it been a week already?! However, I am happy to report that in a week’s time, there is already a night and day difference around here. I’m going to just break it down chronologically. 😉
Monday:
Giddy excitement as we head out to meet our realtor at the house to get our keys at around 9am. Immediately learn the AC was busted. Like fan on outside unit busted clean off. 😑 Fast forward through a full out temper tantrum and quite a few cuss words, our realtor gets me in touch with a HVAC company that comes out that same day and gets it running again but also informs me that the FIVE YEAR OLD UNIT is on its last leg. We’ve owned 20 yr old units that have limped along better than this hunk of junk. Our realtor got to work on finding out what rights we had in a situation like this while I left the house that day saying I never wanted to come back.
Lessons for Monday: 1.)ALWAYS get the HVAC units inspected during option period. This was the first time we hadn’t done that because we were confident in the age of the unit. 2.)ALWAYS do a final walk through before closing. Regardless of how rushed the stupid title company wants to make it. In our in our case, they gave us an hour’s notice. We should have told them wait.

Tuesday:
I woke up willing to go back to the house however reluctantly. Ashlyn had dance class this evening and I was looking forward to the ease of a 15 min commute to and from so I decided we would spend the night too. Mom followed us and we brought a big load of boxes over from the storage unit. AC had held out over night, so we got some floors mopped, baseboards wiped and boxes piled in. Mom headed home and I took Ashlyn to dance class. That evening the kids and I ended up having dinner at our newly acquainted neighbors house as a result of her walking by and inviting us! 😆 We’ve gotten to know the family (kids aged 17, 8, and 5) some more this past week and can’t believe that before we even spent one night here, we have already made friends! That helped my outlook on the place ALOT more.
Lesson for Tuesday: Being spontaneous and trusting can pay off!
Wednesday:
We slept so good! Even all piled in one room! It’s quite a comfy feeling house! We enjoyed a lazy start to the morning and I got more mopping done in the final room downstairs. Then I got an amazing phone call from our realtor. She had emailed our situation with the AC to the seller’s agent and had gotten a reply that the seller was willing to split the cost of getting a whole new unit installed. WOW! Not only was the seller not contractually obligated to help at all, she was going beyond just repair reimbursement to thousands of dollars contribution! Can’t find a person like that in Houston! We ended the day with a trip to Walmart for rugs and shelf liner and some playtime with our new friends.
Lessons for Wednesday: 1.) Dirt will always find a way into your house in the country without some well placed rugs. 2.)There’s still good folks in this world.
Thursday:
Mom returned ready to help tackle the pantry that I had chalked up to a lost cause while I cleaned out kitchen cabinets. Today was by far the grossest of all. The pantry had mouse traps in it and holes that led to God knows where. After I removed all mouse traps and left behind canned goods, Mom went in armed with a face mask, rubber gloves and bleach cleaner. She got it wiped out top to bottom and I attacked the holes with pest control great foam and it’s ready for paint. I’m glad I didn’t just barricade the door and waste all that storage. (Thanks mom!) 😉 The kitchen cabinets actually didn’t go as smoothly. There was mouse poop on top of shelf liner on top of mouse poop. 😵 So gross. I have yet to find any dead or alive mice, so my best guess is all this crap is from a previous infestation that never got properly cleaned. Y’all keep y’all’s fingers crossed for me this is the case. We eventually got it done. Ashlyn even helped peel shelf liner!
Lesson for Thursday: Great Foam is some good shit!

Friday:
Weston turned 5 today! And Nathan came into town to see his house for only the 2nd time! While he got things lined out with his new job in Tyler, the kids and I ran a load from the storage unit. We came back home to a set up TV! Hallelujah! It was a rough 4 days without the electronic babysitter! 😆 Weston said it was for his birthday, haha! That evening we took the kids to the East Texas State Fair in honor of Bubby’s birthday. That was a fantastic experience.

Saturday and Sunday:
We made 2 loads from storage with a truck, trailer and my car and we got it all in one weekend! Woot! I was able to move the kids into their own room while we get the upstairs ready and it turned out so well!

I really don’t see us having a problem doing this for a month or so. Our refrigerator got delivered as well! It was quite entertaining! After removing the back door entirely and popping some trim off from the doorway leading into the kitchen, the delivery guys were able to literally shove it in. And I just love it! It’s so funny getting excited over appliances, but I see this item as the first piece of my dream kitchen I have conjured up in my head.

Lessons for the weekend: 1.) moving will always suck and I REALLY don’t want to do it ever again. 2.) 100 yr old houses have smaller door ways because people were apparently smaller in general back then. 3.) Sacrifice certain ascetics in the name of ascetics.
Andddd that brings us to the present! Today I got the hallway cleared by reassigning boxes to their designated rooms upstairs. I don’t want to think about the number of times I’ve gone up and down stairs today. Wish I had been wearing my fitbit this week! Tomorrow is showing the house to our first out of town guests, Kelli and Rebecca(!), and painting the pantry. 👍🏻

-Lindsay