Moving Weekend

Whereas last weekend was blissful relaxation, this weekend was slightly different as we moved house.

We closed on purchase of new house on Friday and everything went well from our end. The sellers had a bit harder time as they were buying in North Carolina and I got a panicked phone call from him at about 2pm that they didn't have their money. I am not sure exactly what he wanted me to do about it but I called the closing agent and apparently the seller's closed on their house with 3 seconds left before the bank closed on Friday. I had visions of one of those movies with the timer ticking down with a panicked seller screaming (do I cut the red wire or the green wire, red green, red green)

We were all due to move on Saturday but it got called off as the remnants of Hurricane Hannah decided to hit NJ. It finally hit about 1pm and we had torrential rain. It did however give us time to finish the remainder of the packing, get some jobs done etc.

The movers arrived 7.30 Sunday morning. MA had to be at the new house at 8am Sunday as we had a very important visitor (from Nicholas' point of view anyway). The Verizon man to install the TV, internet and phone.

The movers worked all day from 7.30 until 5. I dropped the boys over at the new place around 10.30. They disappeared to the neighbors place (they have a 15 year old son)to play. Kiely's I am sorry to say but you may no longer have the coolest house in the world as these people have a pool and a basement with a pool table and table tennis table in it.

The neighborhood was having a block party so while MA and I slaved away unpacking, the boys came back for fuel and took off to the block party. So we basically didn't see them from 10.30 until 6pm that evening.

New house is a disaster zone, but hopefully will be in shape by this weekend. Have to go back to old place tonight to clean up as we are looking to rent it out and it needs to be slightly cleaner than shape I left it in yesterday.

Photos of new house attached.