It's been a little while since Kristine updated you on the great news that baby #3 is expected this September. Said Grayling, a boy, who is as of yet unnamed, is already causing trouble. You see, our two bedroom/two bathroom condo, not large when it was just for the two of us, and already very tight with the addition of two rambunctious near two year olds, will be a practical impossibility for our family to survive when Delta Force Tiebreaker comes in for a landing.
Thus, we've been doing many things to prepare, not the least of which is putting said insufficient condo on the market for sale. We've had a pair of Open Houses, and have been mercilessly packing up, throwing things away, donating to Good Will, and filling all available storage units and friend's garages with our Earthly possessions. And this all comes before we even think about where we will go should somebody find our offer compelling.
That may explain part of the quiet here.
Kristine's been kept plenty busy chasing after Matthew and Sarah, and feeling a big fatigued by Tres. Add on top of that us moving things in and out, and you can see why it at times feels like we're prisoners in our own home. Our cars are filled with boxes to the point the seatbelt alert often goes off - thinking another passenger is in the vehicle. We've perfected the art of hiding things under the bed so visitors can't see all our clutter, and we are rooting for the weather to be just perfect on the day prospective buyers show up - and we must cover our eyes to the flaking paint outside our building's front door - ignored by the homeowner's committee, and hope the potential buyers don't notice.
So now we're in limbo, trapped by the tickings of a gestational clock. We can't move out until somebody wants our place. We can't seriously look for the next place until we have a buyer for our place. But Junior isn't going to hold on forever. We might be living in laundry baskets, dresser drawers and storage units before this is all over. Meanwhile, as Summer approaches, it threatens to get hot in our home. Baking.
We'll be sweating in more ways than one.
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