house update

We had a short weekend.  It was as long as it always is, it just seemed to fly by.  We went looking at houses in Altoona Friday night.  Becky loved two of them.  She liked the smallest ones because they had really cool toys in them.  We tried to explain to her that the toys didn't stay, but it didn't matter to her.  On Saturday morning, we dropped Becky off at Sarah's and headed to the Easter Lake (southeast side of Des Moines) area.  There were some great houses there, but decided that it's too much of a country feel for Al.  The rest of the afternoon on Saturday was spent getting the house ready for another showing on Sunday.  On Sunday, Al and I dropped Becky off at a friend's house and went back to Altoona to look at a house a second time.  We both loved the house and would move in a heartbeat.  The downside is that we don't have our house sold.  We aren't willing to have two mortgages.  So here we sit and wait.  We have decided we would like to end up in either Urbandale or Altoona.  Now it's just a matter of waiting until we get ours sold so we can put an offer in on one.  So no more looking for us.  We know what we want, and I'm confident that when it comes time to move, we will be able to find what we are looking for.

The kids are both doing well.  They have colds that don't want to go away, but that's about it.  I did take Colby to the doctor yesterday because he had had trouble sleeping the two nights previous.  So bad, in fact, that I couldn't lay him down in bed without him crying.  Not like him at all.  Turns out he had a borderline ear infection.  The left ear was very full with fluid and probably on its way to being a full-blown ear infection.  The doctor was unable to get the wax out of the way in the right ear to see.  Long story short, he got his first taste of Amoxicillan.  Gotta say he's a great medicine taker.  And what kid doesn't love the bubblegum medicine?  Even Becky thought it smelled pretty good.   Colby slept well through the night last night, so I'm confident he will continue to as the fluid goes down and the pressure behind his ear lessens. I sure function a lot better when I get my sleep too!

So that's an update for now.  Trying to keep everyone healthy and stay positive about the house.  We sure would love to have ours sold and at least an offer on a new one before we head down to Florida on April 8th.  Getting so excited for that trip.  What a relief it would be to have all that taken care of.  In the meantime, we will try not to stress about it.  Easier said than done!