The house

After our Charleston trip we had to drive the rental car back to Atlanta to check it in, otherwise it would have cost another $400.  Who wouldn't like a 5 hour drive with a teething baby and potty training toddler?!  We were supposed to close on the house that Tuesday, March 27th.  Because the home was a short sale, the banks put a deadline on the home by that day or they were going to foreclose.  Matt and I ended up staying in Atlanta with the children, hoping to close on the house, and it didn't happen.  Instead we spent the night in a crappy $42 night hotel (delta rate) (price added for drama) with very cranky children.  Roman threw a fit going to bed at finally 11pm and woke up Carmen.  Matt and I were yelling at each other and we all were barely hanging on.  Needless to say, Pa flew in town the next morning to the rescue and we all survived!

I don't even remember exact details anymore that don't even matter, but we didn't close on the house by the end of March.  We picked a very conservative mortgage loan company that happened to be so picky and they didn't like the way the contract was worded at the time.  We thought we completely lost the home because  Bank of America put a deadline on the house.  We need to close by the end of March or they would foreclose.  We left Atlanta devastated, thinking we lost the house forever and almost gave up!  It was terrible to say the least!  God still had a plan...