Well.........everything moved fast...this Wednesday we get packed..on Thursday and maybe Friday we get it loaded on a truck...on Saturday it gets stored..On Friday Bill drives back to get me and I call to have final readings on the utilities..then we are officially homeless...all the next week he has to be in Santa Barbara....I may just drive up there myself and stay with him in a nice hotel for the week..he'll be staying by Solvang..
It is supposed to rain here tomorrow and Wednesday....
SUCH ADVENTURES...I TELL YA...

Friday the STUFF surveyor came and looked and counted and guesstimated and thinks we have 20 thousand pounds of stuff and they will take all but the chemically kinds of things...we would just have to pay the over 18 thousands pounds stuff...he had no idea how much that would be...the company is supposed to get a hold of us to tell us how soon they can move us....dadu came home this weekend because we had to get stuff notarized and get it sent in...and we are out of here.....Monday is a holiday though so everything is slowed down there...
Today my mom and a family in the ward are coming to dinner..Hawaiian haystacks...so everyone can make it how they like it.....my mom's birthday is next Saturday...I just don't know what I will be doing then...so she gets her ice cream and present today.
FUN STUFF...

Today the termite guy treated the rafter...I patched the little holes before my last activity girls meeting today....tomorrow I can paint it. I reluctantly washed all the grandchildren's chalk art off the driveway today..after I mopped the sticky floors.
The relocation people want to know when we are leaving..everything is done..except tomorrow is the first appointment we could get for our moving surveyor to come...so...as soon as they can move us is when we leave...and we have a 10 foot truck size storage space available in Pico Rivera we can put what they won't take in ,for now..[.where they moved out Dadu's mom's stuff so his sister could take it to Utah to sort] his brother's stuff is in the other part of the storge unit. This escrow went really fast....prayer really helps !! This is RATHER exciting !!! No, we have no house...we are going to look with cash as soon as I get down there..cash floats you to the top of the pile I understand..hey...the good Lord has gotten us to this point this fast..so I am certain he will get the next part solved too !!
I drove to the Redlands temple this morning only to discover it is closed again...I have done that before...you would think I would go online and look before I drive !! I did have to return crochet hooks to the homegoods center so the trip was not a total waste of time.

Hip Hip Hooray.......the buyer's Bank of America appraisal came up the same amount as the house sold for..so basically escrow is just about done.....early..............now we just have to get the termite guy over here to solve the $390.00 spot treatment in a rafter...{they know when they have ya}...and Friday the moving surveyor comes to evaluate out junk....and the weight factor...and what they can't take..and ,when they can move us and we get the rest of the stuff moved..we are out of here !! Homeless !! soon !! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH. So exciting !!

Sunday, October 4, 2009

It has been a weekend both too long and too short. All of our children and their families have been with us this weekend. They all came in per Grandma Grumpy's last request that all gather for her funeral. Likewise my brothers and sisters and their families were also down for the funeral. We have renewed friendships. We have strengthened family bonds. We have laughed and cried. We have experienced spiritual moments that are hard to explain, but we have experienced and testified of those significant moments. We have had a full house. It has been noisy, congested, cluttered, and wonderful. I and A flew home this morning. J and A and their girls left about 7:30 am. M and S and their boys left about 8:30 am. N and A and their family leave tomorrow. S and A leave Tuesday morning. The house will be very empty.

This was a final time for them to be in the home in which they grew up. We have to submit to the relocation company tomorrow a vacate date. We still need to have the moving company give us an assessment of what they will and will not move.

I say "Thank you, I love you" to my dear mother. I thank my brothers and sisters, who with our parents, made so many memories which have been spoken of and pondered on through the past week. I thank my wife and children for their love and support and the memories we have shared. And I am so grateful for God, my Eternal Father and His Son, my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and His Restored Gospel. I am grateful for the plan of salvation and for the promise of eternal life and eternal families. May all friends and family realize these promises.