Hi Friends,
Today was a busy day for someone still recovering from chemo. The people buying this house had a home inspection scheduled for 9 a.m. So, we were all up by 8 a.m., tidying up the house and getting ready. The home inspection seemed to go well. Nate, Isaac, and Molly went over to Judi's to hang out. The inspector was nice enough to work around me laying in my bed. There not much home inspectiion to be done in the master bedroom. Anyway, that took until about 11 a.m. We also got to meet the buyer and his fiancee. They seem very nice and are very excited to buy our house.
From there we drove with our realtor, Rick, into Oxnard where we looked at a house in a new housing development called Riverpark. It was a caravan. Bill drove in his car, because he had to go to work afterwards. Annie drove me and the kids in our SUV, and the realtor followed us.
The pictures above show the house on London Lane, which we looked at. It's a 4 BR, 3 BA (with 2 car garage) townhome -- about 2000 square feet and quite new. We are going to rent it for the next year. Our lease starts Sept.1, 2009 and ends Aug. 31, 2010. Yes, there's a reason we're renting for a year and we do have a plan. But that's Chapter Two, and we're not ready to reveal it yet.
In the meantime, we can move into the house on London Lane Sept. 1, and we have to be out of this one in Simi Valley by Sept. 9. So, I guess, it's time to start packing. The PODS container comes on Monday. The house in Oxnard is 15 minutes away from Bill's work, and while it's a townhome -- there are 13 parks and tons of jogging trails and bike paths to keep the kids busy.
After checking out the new place,we stopped at Soup Plantation for lunch. Bill went to work, and he is still there. The rest of us came home, and I immediately lay down to take a nap. I had to go to sign the rental papers with Bill, but that was a big outing for me. By the time we were half-way through lunch, I was feeling quite queasy.
After a nap, I woke up to Shirlene picking up Nate for his usual Friday night sleep-over. She also brought us dinner -- a delicious spaghetti and Italian sausage casserole. We made some rolls and had a great dinner -- everyone except Bill that is! Nate is going shopping with Shirlene tonight for more skinny jeans in different colors. And other than that -- I showed Terry and Judi and Shirlene pictures of the new house. They're happy for us, but sad that we'll no longer be so close.
I'm going to sign off and lay down in bed. By the way, in the new house one bedroom with a full bath is downstairs. Bill and I are going to take that one, so that we don't have to navigate the steps. Nate and Isaac are going to share the huge master bedroom suite, and Cameron and Molly will each have their own room with a full bath in between. I think the master closet is big enough for all of our clothes, and the laundry room is upstairs!
Much Love,
Michele
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