Trips and Activities
book swap party at Jess's house, potato and poetry theme
spent a day making candy with Cherissa. We did pralines, toffee, and peanut brittle.
stayed busy with my calling in the Young Women presidency
science fair for Katie. She didn't win any awards, but she had fun.
Birthdays and Holidays
James turned 38! I made a bunch of pretzel dogs to freeze and take to school when needed.
Weather
very warm and dry
Sickness
a cold, but nothing serious
Repairs
new brakes for the Yukon, and more repairs incoming for all of our cars
Projects
I got into 3D printing because there were a bunch of small spools of filament that we needed to use up. I successfully did that and made some cute organizers for the bathroom closet. I also figured out the ideal temperature settings for the all the filaments we currently have.
As for our house, we had 3 showings and we looked at 3 houses. None are the right one. We also had a very mixed bag of news. Our realtor called and told us he thought we'd need to list as cash only (no VA loans). We felt okay about doing that but justifiably upset. A couple days later while helping set up for an art show at the elementary school, I was talking to a couple of friends about my problems with selling my house and a woman there approached me and told me she writes loans for my exact situation. Needless to say, I was shocked, but I got her my old loan papers, and she's working on coming up with a loan that will work for this house. She seems to know what she's doing (unlike the last lender in October, who dropped the ball). I haven't heard back from her yet, but I'm hoping for some good news. It seems so unlikely that we'll ever get to move, but we realized in this process that miracles happened for us to buy this house in the first place. Miracles haven't ceased since 2013, either. I know that. I hope I can hang on for a little while longer till everything works out.
