eeek! I think we just sold our house

I'm seriously going to throw up.

I think we just sold our house.

Now, this has been in the process for awhile. Since December 5th, actually, but I think we're just about to seal the deal.
We've accepted an offer, made it through the inspection and signed our last document last night.
All that's left should be the actual closing.

I'm seriously going to throw up.

I haven't mentioned a word on here because we've been through so much and we weren't really sure where it was going to lead.
I almost hate to mention anything now. Nothing's really sure until you hand them the keys, but I've been bursting at the seams for almost 2 months and I just had to share.

The people that are (allegedly) buying our house viewed it for the first time on 12/5. They stayed for an hour and 1/2. How did we know that, you ask? Well, because we sat in a parking lot across the street for most of the time they were there. It's a long story.

They came back for their 2nd visit about a week later and stayed for over an hour and 1/2. We thought this was a good sign.
Then they said that they were going to make an offer. They wanted to do it before they left on vacation, which was also over Christmas, but we didn't hear anything. Then the day they returned from vacation (1/6) they made an offer. We countered, they countered, we accepted: 1/9.

Then they scheduled an inspection: 1/19.

A NINE HOUR INSPECTION.

Everyone we've told can't believe it took that long. They've never heard of such a thing. Neither had we and believe me, it was pretty darn intimidating too. We were able to leave for most of the day while they were there.
We left at 8am and they were there, we came home at 3:30 and they were STILL there.
The husband, the wife and the inspector.
So, we had a nice LONG chance to meet the people that want to buy our house. The cat (one of the 2) rubbed all over them, Lola slept on them, the kids played with them.....unbelievable.
I can't even tell you how it felt to have the wife lead me around my house and show me how she is going to decorate it, how they have to paint it, etc.
Kind of insulting in a way......"what's wrong with the way it is NOW?"
Anyway, the inspection went pretty well ultimately. Our house was built in 1890, so there could have been SO MANY things that could've gone wrong. Turns out the biggest issue was them wanting the electrical system upgraded to 200 amp. That's about it. whew.

We're not sure at this point when the closing date is. There was a date originally, but I don't know if we're going to stick with that or not. After closing, we have 10 days to move out.
why am I sitting here ? I really should start packing......

Where do we go after we move out? Well, this is where it gets really interesting.
We don't want to take the kids out of their school in the middle of the year, so we need to stay in our district till May 28th. Fortunately for us, my parents live in our district (even though they're in another town AND another time zone...) So, we'll be bunking with them till school's out.
To make it even MORE interesting, we think we're going to build a house. They promised us it would take 3-4 months (yeah, right) so we'll need to stay with the 'rents till our new house is built. Which, if they stick by their word, should be around the same time that school's out anyway.

BUT! NOTHING ever works out that well for us, so we'll see. At least we have a place to stay, and

THANK YOU MOM AND DAD!!

(the people who don't like cats, especially in their house)

There's just a lot going on right now. Waiting to sell our house, needing to sell before we can buy/build, moving twice in less than 6 months, moving in with my parents with 2 kids, 2 cats and a dog, putting all our stuff in storage, leaving our home and our family and friends and our church......yikes.
Who's idea was this ?

One of these days, when everything is more certain, I'll post pictures of our new house plans. There is only one other existing house like the one we want to build, so we don't have any actual pictures, just plans.

Holy guacamole, wake me up in a year.