Moving So Far...

The packers came the 19th and 20th of June and the movers were set to come on the 25th but we called them to see if they could come earlier because the packers got done earlier than expected. They called back and said Saturday the 23rd would work for them and then called back again on Thursday and said they would be there Friday. Tom had his going away scheduled for that day but we managed. I sat at the house with the movers while Tom was having lunch and golfing. They finally pulled away around 7:30 and we were off to billeting for the next 5 days. We were to final out of our house and leave town on Thursday but the cleaners got done early too and we rescheduled our final inspection and Tom's final out processing meeting and headed out on Wednesday. We headed to my parent's in Wisconsin and dropped the kiddos there while we went to St. Louis to look for a house. We planned to meet the realtor on Saturday at 1:00 and by 5:00 we had looked at probably 12 or so houses. Some we thought were doable (if that's a word) and others not so much. We then planned to meet again the next day and looked at about 12 houses that day and thought we had found the house we wanted to buy. It was in a small town about 20 minutes from the base, in our price range (which was important), and we liked it a lot. We planned to meet the realtor Monday morning to write up the paperwork and such. But on the way to the realtor's office we had a change of heart. Although it was a very nice house we decided between the money we would spend on gas driving to the Base and back everyday (Tom to work and I to the gym) and the money we could spend on a house that was closer we were not going to buy that house and we were going to buy a house we saw the very first day that was a little out of our price range but would even out in gas since it was only a 5 minute (maybe, if that) drive to the base and also in the school district we had originally hoped to be in. So imagine the realtor's surprise when we walked in and told him we wanted to go look at the other house again. He didn't skip a beat and we got in the car and went to the other house and since it was new construction we hammered out the deal right there and walked away with a closing date of the 24th of July. Tom and I then took off back to Wisconsin and here we sit waiting for the 24th to come along.