I've decided moving is not for the faint of heart

Of course we are not experienced movers...we've lived in the same place for a long time. So I have decided that moving is a skill that I don't want to have. You have to be prepared for the fact that many people have your fate in their control and as hard as you try to plan everything...to cross every "T" and dot every "i", something will come up and throw a wrench in things.

We've been moving along finally. The people buying our house had a snag and got delayed. That cost us some extra money because we missed days with good rates and then the rates went up, so we had to buy the rate down. We moved past that and plowed ahead making plans for the moving company, the utilities off at the old, on at the new, and so on. We were excited and we are surrounded by bare walls and boxes and geared up to head north.

Well, we closed today, only to learn (as we have been CONSTANTLY doing throughout all of this) that the lender our mortgage company went through requires 48 hours before they will fund the loan. The county won't record until the loan is funded. Well, since we signed on Tuesday afternoon, we may not be able to fund until late enough on Thursday, that we won't be able to record on the same day. Then to further complicate things, the county is closed on Friday, so if we don't record on Thursday, we can't record until Monday and we can't take possession until after we record. Whew!

Are you confused yet? We are. We've rescheduled the movers (tentatively), we rescheduled the utilities (tentatively), and we will continue to be on pins and needles until Thursday at 1:00 pm, when we either will become able to take possession of the new house, or learn that we have to wait until the next week. So I've decided moving is a skill I don't want to have and I will not move out of the new house until I absolutely have to or I die, hopefully the latter.

So my prayers tonight will consist of something like "Please help the lender to process our paperwork efficiently so that we can fund and record on Thursday afternoon and load the truck on Friday." If my one or two blog readers are so inclined to include the same in your prayers, that would be awesome.