I am back (well almost)

Sorry it has been so long since I have been here. Life got away from me. I am just now thinking that I am getting a hold of it. I will try and recap -

We had been looking at houses now for about a year and have put a number of offers in. Nothing had seemed to work so we decided that we were just suppose stay where we were. In early April I was called to the Primary Presidency in our ward. I was very excited to serve and had great fun digging my feet in. Though it was short lived, as the first of May we got a call that they had accepted an offer we had made on a house back in February. Yes I did say February. We had to go see the house again as we had forgot what it even looked like. We made a quick decision to say yes. It was a short sale and very DIRTY. I am not sure that DIRTY really covers it, those of you that saw it understand the understatement that is. We closed at the end of May. Now we own 2 houses. Crazy how the bank seems to think that is ok, as they know how much money we make. We had a TON of work to do at the new house before we could move in so we decided that we would list the old house and see if we could sell it quick. Of course we read everywhere online that the best way to show a house was to move everything personal out. We de-cluttered by the box load. We painted the few rooms that were left to paint. We fixed the things that needed to be fixed. This house looks better than it ever has. We showed it 12 times in 2 weeks and got 0 offers. Zilch, nothing, nata. We had 2 houses in our neighborhood that sold within 2 days of being listed but nothing on ours. So our plans changed yet again. We decided that we would be landlords for another year and try again then. In the mean time I was trying to get the new house ready to move into. All of the walls had to be scrubbed before they could be painted. The carpets had to be cleaned, and some torn out. The plan was to tear them all out and get new but when the house did not sell, we had to go to plan B. It took me 3 full weeks to get the walls clean enough to paint. We had to scrap stuff off the ceilings (GROSS). Did I mention the size of the new house? 6 bedrooms, 3 baths, kitchen, living, and entry room. I cleaned FOREVER. Then I had to start painting. I did get lots of help from family, but it still seemed like a never ending project. We got renters to move in the end of July so we had to move out ready or not. I know you are thinking that 2 months should be enough time to get a house ready to move into, but you did not see this house.
Well we are finally in - YEA. It is not quite home yet but it is getting there. I will try and get some pictures posted in the next couple of days. With the change of address came a change of shift for me at work. It just happened to fall on the same weekend and now I work from 11pm to 3am. I can not seem to figure out when I should be sleeping, my body seems to think that it is ALL the time. My poor kid. I am hoping that with this shift I will be able to post more now that I am on my computer in the middle of the night. We will see how that goes.

Sorry for all the rambling - it is good to be back -