Where are we now?

I'm sure I left you all on the edges of your seats with my last update - waiting to hear about a job, waiting to move, waiting to sell the house. Well, here's the scoop: my husband got picked up as a maintenance tech at the Bridgestone/Firestone plant in Wilson, NC. For the past month, he's been living in an extended stay hotel while my daughter and I remain in South Carolina with my mom-in-law. We have been hunting rentals, but finding a place that would allow our big, scruffy mutt has been difficult.



The source of our housing woes.

He's around 110 pounds of dog, which makes him about 80 to 95 pounds too heavy for 85% of the housing available in the Wilson area. The other 15% don't seem to like animals at all. We did find one place within our price range that would allow us to have our dog, but we were beat out by another interested party who signed the lease before us by only a couple of hours. Who knew competition for a two-bedroom mobile home would be so fierce? Maybe she had a large dog too. At any rate, we are now playing the waiting game, as a three bedroom place should be opening up around the beginning of May. The current tenant has an offer in on a house and is just waiting for the paperwork to come through. My husband and I are hopeful, as we are eager to get on with our life together. I can't wait to move in, decorate my new space, plant a garden, potty train my daughter, and have my fur-babies cuddle up with me on our futon.

We haven't yet sold our NY home, but then again, we haven't yet had the opportunity to speak with a real estate agent about putting our house on the market. With any luck, our home should sell this summer, with all the visitors to the Great Sacandaga dreaming about living in a friendly little lake town like Northville. Gosh, thinking about it that way makes me a little sad, because it really was a great place to live. Anyway, on to the next adventure, right?