Sigh, that's how I feel right now, one big "sigh." We are still in limbo and I am getting very tired of people telling me that if they haven't gotten the map to us that we will not be in the house for more than a year. Seriously, do I look like I need more negative news? I want positive feedback. Now I am told that we need to have someone to check on the progress every day during the build. Um, yeah, not happening. As it is Rob is trying to figure out how few trips we can take there. We cannot make our selections until we have signed the contract, but we can't sign the contract until they have the lots staked out. ARG!!!! We were told that we can go through the design center at any point, but the choices could change when their fiscal year ends March 31. The person with whom we will sign the contract doesn't work Thursday and Friday and the design center is not open on Mondays. So we could sign on Saturday then make design choices on Sunday, but I don't think that we can make all of our choices in one day. We could go to the design center on Friday, informally make our choices then come back after signing the contract. Sigh. Now we come down to the money/moving part. We will close on the new house before we close on the old house because we will be doing the move in two stages. We need the money for the down payment. Rob came up with the idea of moving twice. Just shoot me, seriously, just shoot me. He started to look for a place. He was looking for a 2 bedroom apartment. Then he realized that we both will be working from home so we needed more space. I did point out that if we got an apartment it would need to be on the ground floor because I can't use the loom above anyone. Then we discussed putting more work in a storage unit and would we need a climate controlled unit. Um, my big loom does not go in a non climate controlled space or the dining room set for that matter. I mentioned a bridge loan and that may be a possibility, sure beats moving twice. We still do not have a move date, or even a move month. I will keep getting the house ready and go from there. Douglas is planning to come up for a week in August to help us stage the move, hopefully the house will have sold by then. He will help us take stuff out of the basement and take a few things apart. I will have to have him show us how to get the TV off of the mounting bracket. I think that we can take the bed apart, but that could be tricky. As it stands now the double move is off of the table, lets hope that it stays that way.