Moving stress

Matt has been applying and interviewing for his promotion since last March. Nearly 16 months after beginning, he was offered a position. This turned last week into the most hectic week of my life. Baby, anniversary, job...my head is spinning.

I'm not worried about moving. I'm actually kind of excited for a fresh start. I feel really trapped in this house, and every spare second we've had has gone into doing some kind of remodeling or home improvement. It's tiring. I'm excited to have time to unpack things and put them where I want them...for the next 2 years. After 2 years, we will move on and Matt will get his own store. I really want to get into a home that we don't have to put quite so much work into. Best of all, we're moving very close to Amy Johnson, an awesome person and the most extraordinary photographer in the world!

But this is a huge whirlwind. We have to sell this house, but listing it is impossible until we actually get some of the in progress projects done. We have to find a new home. There's lots of foreclosures in that area, so finding a relatively cheap house should be easy enough. But our credit sucks, so getting the mortgage is really questionable. I'm not sure how we're going to swing that one. Matt's going to be starting there relatively soon. We need to move before school starts, obviously, and I don't want to be paying for a hotel room for him to live in. I'd like to just move into the home we're going to live in before he starts working. It seems like all the people he needs to talk to at work are taking vacations, and we don't even have the formal written offer.

I know it will all work out. It has to. We won't be homeless. We'll figure something out. But I hate living with all the unknowns.