We're "Engaged!"

Our offer was accepted! Not without a small adjustment to the already costly "dowry," but we were happy to comply since the house was worth it and the adjustment was below the maximum amount we were willing to give anyway. So we're officially under contract!

Now we're keeping our fingers crossed that the two closings can be done smoothly on the same day so we'll be homeless only for a few hours. I'm already worried about the cat and what we'll do with him until after the closing. We have a friend who already lives in the town we're moving to, but her husband is severely allergic to cats, so I guess it's not a good idea to leave him at her house for a few hours. Can you imagine going to a closing with two young kids and a cat in tow?! Of course we'll figure something out and that won't happen, but it'd be hilarious, wouldn't it? OK, so now that I'm talking about our cat Blues, I'll give you another post with a few photos of him. And I'll close this one with this:
More to come later. There's a lot of work to be done, so hopefully we'll have many "before and after" pairs of photos to show in the future.