Not Knowing is the Hardest Place to Be!

If you are like me, when something in your life is undecided or up in the air, it can send you in a tiz!  I am one of those "just tell me what it is and I will deal with it" kind of people.  But when things like where we are going to live, or other large variables that are important to the stability in my life...I catapult into high stress mode.  This is where I am today, so I will be brief.  Especially since my Luke just informed me he "puked" in my room on the carpet. He must have gotten choked, and then gagged, and then well...you know :)

Don't worry, I cleaned it up before I came back to write this, LOL!  So, when we knew we were going to be moving to Wake Forest, NC, due to the current housing market, we had to sell our house before we could put in an offer or even look at houses here.  Needless to say, we sold our house, they wanted us out yesterday...so we ended up renting here in the area we felt best suited us...and now we are just shy of 60 days from needing to either buy this house we have been renting, or purchase another house.  Sounds easy enough, right?  Of course not!!

The people we are renting from live in Australia, and although we have given them an offer, we have yet to know if they even want to sell to us at a reasonable price.  This is where the unknown is driving me nuts.  Should I stay or should I go now??? I am a planner so I have to put a contingency plan into effect in case they say no.  I have been scouring the internet for homes that would best meet our needs, the best price per square foot, and making sure my daughter is still close enough to her school that it doesn't change, or else off with my head it would be!  I just want to know, if we can relax and enjoy the Christmas season, or if we will be driving around looking at houses to secure a place to live.  We were hoping to know whether they were selling to us by Sunday.  We are still waiting.  And we must let our leasing agency know by Friday if we are staying or not.  I will be a ball of nerves this week for sure.  Now, if the backup houses could just not sell until I know, I will not have a heart attack. What else can I do but wait, smile and just move on :)