A little bit about myself as it will put things into perspective.... I consider myself pretty laid back, sometimes to the point I'm laying down. It takes a lot to wind me up (unless your unfortunate and get the odd day of the month) and stress me out. Sometimes I see how stressed my partner gets when something went wrong with the house and a plumber / electrician needed to be called or something needed fixed and I think to myself 'o well, we can't do anything about it, lets just get it fixed.' and think to myself why does it have to make someone so stressed? I'm not saying I don't get stressed... well actually I have never felt the way I have done in the last week and a half and I hope never to feel it again.
As I've mentioned in previous posts we were selling / had sold our house and moving to a new one. Even with such a big stressful event, I was feeling pretty calm. I am also overly organised and have been known as the 'list queen' by many, I think this is why I didn't stress, I plan everything and take the time to see how we can make things work and do things without having to leave it until the last minute and prepare beforehand. We had also been prepping the little Buddha for the move - he knew exactly what was going on... maybe better than I'd have hoped. We had been prepping him since moving into the house, he had always wanted a doggy but the old house wasn't suitable. We said that when we move into the new house we could get one. When we finally sold the house we told him and he said 'does that mean we can have a doggy like dottie now'. We explained the process and he knew what he was doing, he was happy. He was looking forward to putting his stuff into his new bedroom that he wanted decorated in Batman stuff. He was so good especially for only being 4 years old.
We had been told we should complete on the 4th April and that we were aiming for this date although our purchase, the ones that initiated this date, weren't being fast enough to meet this target. We received a phone call Friday evening at 5pm from the estate agent explaining that we had to complete by the next Friday or the buyers of our house were no longer going to buy... this was earlier to the previous date and did I mention only giving us 5 working days notice to sort things. They weren't bluffing either... so we were left with a 4 bedroom house, two full time jobs and a 4 year old and now only 6 days to pack up our lives and get out.... and no new house to move in to.
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| This wasn't even the end... |
As you can imagine it was a very stressful 6 days and I don't even want to think about how Alex (the little buddha) felt. He was so panicked and upset... he couldn't understand what was happening and thought his mummies were leaving him. One of the days he came home and threw everything of his he could find into a box shouting he was coming too. Heartbreaking!! He wouldn't sleep anywhere bar our bed and it became even more difficult with how clingy (understandably) he was. 6 very stressful days later, a removal van and lots of packing meant that everything went into storage and my little family standing at my parents door.
I am very grateful to my parents for giving us a roof... not so much to the mortgage company and other people that are holding up the purchase of our new home and putting us in this situation. At least we can all relax and my little buddha is feeling safe again. O and did I mention... THIS MEANS WE GOT RID OF THE OLD HOUSE!!
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| Yay!!! No longer on market after completing |
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