Selling and Cleanliness

While in Monterey, we got orders to PCS to Ft. Hood, TX with a report date of July 10th. I don't know that I should ever go on vacation again. Between Laurel's hair-capades, a messy house to contend with, and unwanted news about moving, I don't know if my trip was worth it. Ha. Anyhow, we, Tim and I, both began to panic and wake at 2am with thoughts of "how will we manage to sell this house on time?" I looked at my house and saw all the things that we meant to upgrade but never had time or money. But we went to a Realtor and put it on the market. I worked and made sure that the house was very clean......that lasted about a week then everyone trashed it and I was just too tired to keep it up on my own. Then I had a burst of energy and recleaned it all and organized it all down to the closets. You can open most any of my closets and they look very nicely put together. I even decluttered our rooms and prepacked a lot of things. I have learned in this process, though, that when selling a house suddenly there isn't much privacy. People can look in just about any space. Weird how that is okay just for this period of time......Come on in folks and snoop to your hearts content. Want to look in all my drawers. Go ahead, just buy my house. Ha. We had our first looker today. I wanted to jump up and down in joy. I had to reign myself in and remind myself that we couldn't possibly get that lucky....our first looker also be our buyer. Murphy's law also came into effect and our blower fan motor to our heating and cooling system died......$152 we didn't have to spend now gone. I am trying not to be OCD now though. Even though my house is as clean as it has been in a long time, I still look at it and see more things that need to be cleaned....like I need to dust continually or polish the wood furniture or I keep finding little spots on the carpet. They are things that others would probably never see or notice but now they are really irritating me. Sigh.
In other news, Gavin is playing soccer again and having a good time. He was a little beat up the other day with a kid smacking his glasses off his face, but persevered and stuck out the rest of the game. I don't remember how it came up, but we also have recently had a conversation about french kissing. He told me how disgusting that was and how he would never touch someones tongue. I told me someday he would enjoy kissing his wife that way and that I loved it when dad french kissed me. He looked at me straight faced and said"you totally joking, right mom? You don't really do that?" I just had to laugh.
Connor is doing well with his piano lessons. Songs are actually beginning to sound like songs and not strange notes played out of order. He is excited because he is half way to his goal of getting 35 stickers. Once he gets there he gets the toy of his choice. Yes, I and his teacher bribed him to be more consistent in his practicing.
Laurel is loving preschool and asks me every morning if it is a High School day. Her preschool is at the high school. It still cracks Tim up when she says that she goes to high school. I laugh back and tell him that sooner than we think she really will be in High school. Time goes by so fast.....
Well, it is late and I am beginning to ramble. So, I am off to bed.........