It happened! Right at 8 weeks, we got an offer. Hooray!
Fun story... I got a call at 5pm from the showing scheduling service on a Monday evening. We were just finishing eating dinner early because everyone had swim lessons, and Collin had taekwondo, and we had to leave by 5:20pm. The operator informed me that a realtor had just placed a request for a 5:30 showing.
I said, "Do you mean in 30 minutes?!"
He said, "Yes, but you can decline it."
I replied, "Not if I want my house to sell!"
I quickly got off the phone, and as the kids finished eating, I told them through my panic-induced shortness of breath, "We have a showing, and we have to have the house ready in 20 minutes!" It was 5:02pm.
And you know what those amazing little monkeys did? They cleared their places, loaded their dishes, and got into their swimsuits/gi. Before I knew it, Collin was wiping bathroom counters and folding nap-time blankets, Brennan was wiping the kitchen table and counters, Ethan was loading the dishwasher, and Kate was putting my shower bottles under the counter in the bathroom. I honestly didn't even tell them what to do.
I've never seen anything like it! I didn't even think they KNEW what to do! But after two months on the market, they just knew what had to happen, and they did it without a single tear, complaint or yell from Mom.
I sent them to the car and did the final vacuum and mopping and then joined them. I got in the driver's seat and backed out of the garage, and... it was 5:17pm. I pulled over on our street - to put on my shoes! - and gave the most sincere, appreciative compliments to my little team. We had come together and got it done. I was - and still am! - so proud of them.
The next day we learned that the family who had come that night - the wife is the realtor's daughter - was putting together an offer to buy our house. And we had done it together! It was such a tender mercy that the showing that became "the one" was the showing where we had to work as a team and do the impossible.
My little guys can move mountains!
Anyway, a few days later we made an offer on a home in Boerne, TX. It is a bedroom-community on the NW corner of San Ant. The schools are great, and Ryan's commute should be only 30-45 minutes, (rather than one hour drive of most high-rated schools) depending on traffic. We have successfully gotten through the inspections on both ends, so that's a relief. Now we just have to submit documents and sign, sign, sign.
We will close here on May 24th, take a final farewell tour of southern Colorado, and then drive to Texas. We'll have about a week in a hotel or VRBO there, and then we close on the new house on June 5th. It immediately needs new carpet - before the truck arrives, hopefully - so we'll still have a few more days of unsettledness. It'll be crazy and exhausting, but then it'll be all over. I'm so grateful to see light at the end of the tunnel!
