House business

Jesus God, have I been busy! This house-selling business requires an ass-load of hard work, even though I consider our house to be cute and in damn good shape. I'm glad I'm not a slob or more of a slovenly housekeeper than I already am.

The good news is that we talked to a realtor whose opinion we trust, and when we told her our idea of a fair asking price for our current house she assured us that we were way UNDERpricing it. Given our beautiful gardens, new fence, and general cuteness and good condition she thought we could get almost $15K more for it. We haven't signed a contract with her because Husband wants very much to sell the house on his own with the help of one of those cheap-o companies that you pay a small fee to for an MLS listing. But she gave us advice anyway, even without us promising her a commission. Thanks for the recommendation, Mommygoth! If we end up not selling it on our own in the next 2 weeks we'll use her, but I hope we won't have to wait that long for a contract. We do already have some prospective buyers in Boston, an academic couple with a 2-year old who love the house pictures and have good friends living just around the corner...

So I'm eating, breathing, and sleeping house-selling these days. And this on top of Sister's 2nd-grade class party yesterday, Bean continuing with her molar-growing woes, and weaning that sweet baby on top of it all. She was down to just one evening feeding as part of her bedtime routine, and even then wasn't really nursing much because she's so riled up just before bed. I was going to a PTA meeting slash wine-soaked patting-ourselves-on-the-back fest last night and thought, well, I might as well just let it go now. So I did. And I was kinda sad. But truthfully, there's so much going on right now that I don't have time to mope about it. Tonight I'll just turn that nursing time into cuddle with mama and a book time, and I'll bet we'll both be o.k.