The selling of a house...

I really am understanding why, when we move again, we are going to live there until we die. I am being 100% serious!!

I am constantly perplexed by the idea that we are putting so much effort and money into this house, just to move out...in the new house we will be doing fresh paint there too...so, it really never does end.

We have had almost 20 walk-throughs since having it up on the market 1 and a half weeks ago. Those 20 people, did not come through all at once, which means that the only night we have been 'allowed' to stay home was the holiday Monday.

There are still so many little things that need doing, but when you are not home, it is hard to get them done.

We are preparing for an open house on Sunday and want this to be the last weekend for all this unrest...we want an acceptable offer and quick!! So, we have looked around and are figuring out all the little things that need to be done. Our list looks like this:

*Paint porch (which we did at almost midnight last night, realized the colour was not close enough to being the same, so I finished the railing today.)
*Lay the runner on the outside stairs
*Paint basement hall (it was not in our painting contract...next time I will read it a little closer - I did this last night too)
*Change all the lights to 100watts...brighter is better
*Change the shower curtain liner...our really needed to go...
*Buy 2 more glass door knobs for the other 2 doors we missed
*Find the circle light fixture attachment for our 2 dimmer lights...
*Clean the basement stairs more thoroughly...no more gum allowed in our house anymore!
*Scrape and paint the whatchamacallit thing that hangs over our side door...it is just a decorative thing
*Scrape and paint the side door and frame
*Clean and sweep out the backyard and driveway
*Magic Eraser the marker that I noticed in the bathroom...yup...no more markers or writing utensils in reach of my children
*Get the last 2 boxes out in the garage, and off my living room floor
*Paint the hallway stairs and lay the runner

That is all I can remember right now...I know for a fact that there is way more to do...

Now, remember, this is all on top of my kids starting school for the first time ever, making that adjustment, leaving the house each night for walk-throughs...and yet, we still have to have all this done by Sunday afternoon...

Did I mention that I have just about 5 weeks left of this pregnancy????? and I am measuring 3 weeks early, and I have to start taking extra vitamin c and e so my water doesn't break early?????

WHAT WAS I THINKING????