We have had our house on the market for almost a year and in our slow Michigan real estate market, we have not had a showing request for almost 5 months. Thursday afternoon, we got a call...could they show the house Friday morning? Panic! We had let the deep cleaning slide and our house was definitely not 'show ready.' Thankfully, Jeff was not out of town, and helped me get it cleaned up. We worked until almost midnight touching up paint, cleaning, etc., since cleaning when the kids are awake is usually an exercise in futility. Exhausted, we sank into our bed.
Our fingerprint appointment was scheduled for 9:00AM on Friday. The fingerprint office is an hour from our house, which meant that we were going to have to get the kids up early. Being a non-functioning person in the morning, this was not good. ha. Murphy's Law instantly went into effect. Our kids will wake up at the crack of dawn on any day that we want to sleep in, but if we need to get up early for something, they act as if they are under anesthesia, limp and unmoving when prodded.
Because of the house showing, we also had the leave the house immaculate. This presented a breakfast problem. No way were we going to let them eat in the house! Jeff dashed out to the grocery store for some granola bars they could eat in the car, and we called it breakfast.
After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, we finally wrestled their sleepy bodies into their carseats and off we went. We were just going to make it. Well, that is until we hit several traffic snarls and got off at the wrong exit. But...we made it, only 10 minutes late. Thankfully, the folks at the fingerprinting office were kind and gracious (yes, this seems like an oxymoron--but they have some new staff and they were VERY nice).
I must be getting old because I was completely spent for the rest of the day after that. ha. I just wanted to sit in a chair and not move. It WAS nice to have a clean house for a few hours. (Notice that I say only a few hours....)
Our paperwork is all done for Zoey's adoption, except our immigration approval. Ryan's girlfriend took this family picture for our dossier. Finally...a family picture...not exactly professional, but better than nothing.
