All the News that is News (but no house news)

Hi everyone! Hope this finds you all well.

We are excited to be able to share that Brent and Janelle welcomed their first little one! Grey Daniel arrived on November 29th and we can't wait to meet him at Christmastime when we go visit my family. So glad that he arrived healthy and that things are going well.

We are wrapping up school activities, getting ready for a much needed Christmas break. Today was Miranda's last literature discussion, Friday will be a zoology class/field trip for the boys--where else but at the zoo! Sunday will be our Sunday school program.

Today, I've been reading to the kids while they clean up the house. It's a great deal--they clean up one room while I read and then I move to another room and they clean up there while I read and so forth. Most of the house is clean now and we are pausing to finish getting dinner ready.

We baked a turkey that Mark's mom got on sale and gave to us. Mmmm! Does it smell good! Rachel's peeling potatoes to go with it and Miranda is peeling apples for apple crisp.

There's only a scattering of snow left outside and today was clear and bright. We have a new batch of hot chocolate mix made and all of the ingredients for chocolates for the Christmas parties. Luke and Reed have one with their zoology group, and each of the girls have one with girls their ages.

Next week we plan to do lots and lots of not much. We have a couple of new puzzles that I bought at Dove's Next Thrift Shop, so maybe we'll do those and drink hot chocolate. Maybe we'll even stay in our jammies all day so we don't have to do much wash. Then we'll wrap presents. Play games. Read books.

Just one week. It's going to be glorious. And at the end of it, we'll leave for OH and IL to start all of the wonderful Christmas festivities with our loved ones.

We have so much to be thankful for!

Update From Our Realtor

We are currently talking about switching realtors to one of Dave Ramsey's ELPs--Endorsed Local Providers. But in the meantime, we just received this email from our realtor:

The latest updates for this week so far are as follows:

1. The agent from Atlanta continues to ignore me. Very frustrating situation but I am not giving up until I talk to him.

2. I got another call on the house and the prospect went to look at it from the outside. He then called back and said he wanted me to refer him to a mortgage consultant as he was very interested. I sent his information to our in-house mortgage broker. He sent me an email late last night: Credit issues involved, not a buyer at this time. Maybe in about six months.

3. I am trying to get more information on the lady that wanted to rent. If we could at least get her in there as a lease purchase with a big down payment it would be something worth looking into.

Interest is there now, we just got to find a buyer with no credit issues. That has become a huge problem these days.