moving within the 40207

Well last week at this time the house buying/selling was looking bleak. Nothing was going on on our house and everyone that had looked at it was MEAN. Less then a week later we have an accepted contract on our house and an accepted offer on our new house!!!!!! Yay for us. It all started last Tuesday. I was just sitting down to eat lunch about 2ish. I was a MESS. Had worked out that am and then went to the park and then the grocery and then home to clean up and let E nap. He was napping, the house was a mess and I was a mess too. We had not had a showing in a week and no prospect of one so I had kind of let things go. Just then my realtor called and said he had an agent calling from my driveway and they wanted to come in. OMG!!! I asked for 10 minutes and did what I could. They came in and they were super nice. Young couple moving here from OK. They stepped over the mess and peeked in a sleeping E's room. They could not have been nicer. They have a lab as well and an 8 month old so were someone used to kids mess. I told them at least they were getting to see the "lived in" look. Later that night my realtor called to tell me we had different showing the next day! Yay!!! So the next day I was cleaning and the realtor called and said the couple from yesterday were coming back for a second look. Double yay!! That was Wed. On Thursday they made an offer. We went back and forth all day. Finally that night we came to an agreement. During this all I was looking on-line and I found it. I found our house!!! I texted J and told him I found it. He thought I was crazy bc we had been looking and looking and could not find anything. A new house came on the market and it is perfect for us. We looked at it Friday. J wanted to make an offer but I was not sure. We had 5 other houses on Sunday to look at so I wanted to wait. Sure enough Sunday am our perfect house got an offer that was not ours. Oh shit!!! Our perfect house had until 6pm that night to accept the offer and they waited on us bc we had scheduled a second showing with them. So we went to see the other houses quickly and then headed back to our house knowing we must outbid the other offer. We saw the house again to make sure and then J and our realtor left to make up the offer while I took the 3 kids to soccer (ugh). We put in a strong bid and it was accepted right away!!! The comps in the neighborhood are all 50k+ higher than what we are paying for ours so we did get a good deal. They had it priced right to sell bc they had already closed on another house and wanted to move on it. So if all goes well we will be moving in about 50 days!!! J is in Brazil so we are doing this all via email. Little crazy. Our new house is still inside the loop (for those that know what I mean), is all brick, huge and perfect!! It's off Rudy lane so it's in Av's school district, has a good middle and high school, we can walk to a lot of things including stores, resturants and a park!! It's still in the 40207!!!!! I can't wait.