No other choice

Due to the recent lack of blogging by those of you who's blogs I am a frequent visitor of, alas you leave me no other choice but to update my own blog, which is not nearly as fun or as interesting to me as reading others. So here's what going on in our lives this week... or as I so affectionately refer to it as "The Mad Dash."

Friday 8/1 our lender called us and informed us that we would be closing on our loan on the 15th of this month. Five min. after that the contractor called and said that the framers would be there on the 20th of this month. We were ecstatic with this news of coarse for approximately five min. and the reality set in and we realized that this gave us exactly two weeks to do the following
#1. (and probably the most important) Find and alternative place to live while our house is torn apart for the next 3-5 months.
#2. Find a storage shed for all of our stuff
#3. Pack up all of our stuff and sort out what bare essentials we can take, and what needs to go into storage
#4. Move all of our stuff to two different locations!
#5. Demo ALL of the interior walls, and everything in the bathroom and kitchen, and rip out all of the flooring

All the while trying to close on a loan, keep tabs on your contractor (who sadly is now in possession on the #1 speed dial spot on my phone), and trying to decide all of the almost mind numbing details that going to building a house.

However I must give a huge THANK YOU to my Mom and Dad for helping us out with problem #1 and saving us from having to pitch a tent in our own backyard. So thank you, thank you, thank you for taking us in!!!