thus far

today has not been a good day. i fully expect for it to get better though! it is all about what you make it, right?

so we haven't heard from bridget and john (the people buying our house) since last thursday when they just "HAD to go out of town" and were going to TRY to drop the paperwork off for the park (come to find out they just HAD to go deep sea fishing...again). however, i have my own sources and don't need them to tell me what's going on. here's the low down: i talked with charlotte (the lady who owns our park) and she said bridget and agnes (john's mom who's the cosigner) cleared the credit check and john just needed to give her names/numbers for 3 credit references for him. no big deal except she hasn't heard back from them (this was monday). i was a little bit encouraged, though, that they had dropped the stuff off. so today, i decided to call their loan officer (ken) and ask when the estimated close date is (actually, i just wanted him to volunteer info on what's going on at the moment). so i call this morning and he says "well, i've been trying to get in touch with agnes and was just about to call her back b/c their loan didn't go through." i was like "WHAT??? THEY WERE PREAPPROVED!" i honestly didn't yell but oh i wanted to! i just asked him how they were preapproved if it didn't go through. evidentally they are preapproved for a loan BUT they are trying to finance 5k more than the house is worth and they can't do that. SOOOOOOO...he said he's going to try and go through another lender. he called me back a few minutes later and said he got in touch with agnes and she said she could come up with a little of the down payment (the reason they have to finance so much is to finance that into the loan) so he's going to try and run it through with her contributing to the cause. i cried. not really hard or anything but as i was praying for the Lord to just handle this and His will be done (not mine), i did cry. i haven't even called b and told him. his boss is in town today and i don't want him to be in a bad mood or have a bad day. i guess at this point we can just thank God that we haven't signed a contract on a house yet. what irks me so bad is that we have tried and tried to get bridget and john to handle their business so that we would have time to find a place after all their loan and stuff came back approved and i think they just assumed that everything would be just fine and didn't bother to think about the fact that this may not work out. i hate people being selfish!!!

onto other things--i think little bit can say "cat" or some variation of it ("ca" mostly). it is funny how it took her FOREVER to say a consonant and in the past week i've heard her say more different sounds than she ever has. she gets really excited when my kitties are around though and says "ca" a lot. i have been saying "cat...can you say cat? ca ca ca cat?" for ages now and i guess she's picking it up. either that or i'm wishful thinking. i told b about it and i think he was skeptical and then he heard her do it and his jaw dropped :)

i got my nails done yesterday--deluxe pedicure (complete with the exfoliator, clay stuff, and hot towels) and a full set on my hands. we have a wedding to go to saturday and i wanted to look semi nice. i've had gift certificates since my bday in march and mother's day and thank God for them b/c that would've broken the bank! the sad thing is that now i want to go back everday and have my toes done and i can't afford it!! my nails are really cute though :) my friend sara actually came over to scrapbook with me yesterday and forgot her pictures (silly girl) and b got off work early so we just left little bit with him. she's been pretty grumpy lately too so i'm glad i got out for awhile. i thought that within a few weeks of starting "sleep training" babies are supposed to learn to put themselves back to sleep...ha! we're around week 6ish and she STILL wakes up crying in the middle of the night! i haven't gotten up with her in AGES but after she cries for 10 minutes, i can't go back to sleep for 30.

so that's my week in a nutshell. oh does anyone scrapbook? b/c if so, let me share my savings with you--tuesday i went with sara and her mom "shopping" (meaning i had $20 to eat on and buy whatever i wanted all day) and we got great deals! at michael's they have cardstock on sale for $1.99 per pack of 50 sheets (it is $7 at target) and at ac moore they have 12x12 sheets for $0.20 (they are $1.49 at the local scrapbook store). so i got everything i needed and ate lunch for $20!! yea for deals!

i hope everyone's day is going better than mine! but just keep in mind, that my day is about to get so good that it may blow yours out of the water :) i hope