Sold

We went home to get the house ready for sale this weekend.

Have I ever told you how much I hate to pack? well, I do. It is a suckie job, but has to be done.

We cleaned and cleaned and I signed a listing agreement with our local real estate agent on Sunday. He said he had 3 people he wanted to show it to before he put the sign in the yard.

He brought the first couple at 2pm yesterday, and at 5pm he called and said “I have a contract on your house. They are offering full asking price. Come on up and sign the contract.”

In my mind I thought, “This is too good to be true. Certainly there are a buttload of contingencies and a closing date 8 years from today.”

No contingencies. A closing date in September.

Now we just have to get through the inspection. The time between a contract and the closing is always so very stressful.

In other news, I had to put our cat to sleep yesterday. Very, very sad. For years now she has been having recurrent bladder infections. We tried everything. Antibiotics, special food, new litter, Holy water to cast out demons ;*). Nothing worked. We would find cat pee in hidden little corners, and can I tell you how gross that is?

The cat went downhill this summer. To the point that she was loosing hair and was in pain on her back. I took her in to the vet and had her put to sleep. The vet felt that she probably had feline leukemia, or kidney/bladder cancer.

I cried a river. I had her for 10 years, and she was a very sweet, loving cat. She used to steal my shirts and socks out of the laundry hamper and sleep with them.

Every single pregnancy I have had, all 9 of them, the cat knew before I did. She would climb on me and sleep on my belly when I was pregnant. She never did it any other time during the 10 years I had her.

Except for the night before I put her down. In the middle of the night, I was asleep on my back, and she quietly crawled up, curled up on my stomach and lay her head on my chest. She slept there the rest of the night.

I will miss her.

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