Everything's a Little Bit Crazy...

Not only do I have Easter to post, but also Lexi and Lilly's birthday party, but it seems life has thrown us for some loops this month...

We've been prepping the house for an open house. Most of our work has been brightening up our dungeon basement that leaks when it rains. It'll never be waterproof, but any water resistance we can give it will certainly help. We've also had multiple showings the past two weeks, so we are in a perpetual state of cleaning around here.

In bigger news, I quit my job! It was super part-time, didn't contribute much but stress, and education for the girls comes first, so I'm now a complete stay at home mom again!

Preparing to move and get another home loan is the top thing on our minds, so building up savings, reducing debt, and budgeting have been circulating around here too. Now that I don't have to worry about if or when I work, I want to focus on our food budget. We eat out far too much, and I don't cook a lot of variety.

As for savings and debt, taxes have come around. Not knowing when the house will sell, it eats me up to see money in savings that could payoff a debt that gains interest, so yesterday we paid off a credit card!!! It saves us $160 a month, and we hope to snowball at least $90 of it to our next debt in line while saving some, and redistributing the rest.

House Showings

Selling a house is insane! I don't know how real estate agents sleep dealing with clients all day! We've lived in our house for 10 years, and we've gone from renting the upstairs to friends, to turning the house into a single family home and bringing our 4 daughters here to grow up. Now it's time for change. We don't want to raise our girls in the city, so the house is for sale!

We've been on the market since October, and we had a buyer in December which kept our house off the market until mid February, when he got word he may get deployed, and didn't want to deal with having a new house and being overseas for a year.

Now we are back on the active market, and even though more than half of our stuff is in storage, it's still just as stressful keeping this place clean. Dishes, papers, candy wrappers, toys, laundry... I cannot wait until we finally sell!

This week we are focusing on getting ready for an open house (plus Lexi and Lilly's party). It's supposed to rain most of the week, so we are cleaning out the basement. We hope to put up some waterproof basement paint to help with the leaky spots (it's gonna leak, it's old, like 1869 old!)

On a better note, the weather is supposed to be in the 60's! Spring is finally starting to arrive in Ohio!!