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We’re in Utah now.  We own a house a few blocks away on 400 East that we’d like to sell.  We’ve had it listed, but it doesn’t show very well with our current tenants.  One of our tenants was diagnosed with cancer several months ago and they stopped paying us rent.  They did surgery and started treatment, but they soon discovered that the cancer had metastasized and was terminal.  They sent him home to die.  They are suppose to move out this weekend.  Today, he died.  I don’t know how this affects everything. 

We should close on our new house sometime next week.  We’re approved and all the paperwork is in.  I think they sent it over to the title company.  I thought they’d give us a closing date on Friday, but there was no word.  Once we actually do close, we can’t exactly move in right away.  The previous owners are under contract for another house and they haven’t moved out.  Last I heard, they’d be out by August 8th, today they said maybe the 16th.  I’m feeling impatient.  We unloaded our moving trucks into garages in the neighborhood and we’re staying at my in-law’s house–in their living room.  I want to get in and get settled before school starts on August 20th.

Our family vehicle is at the junkyard in Seattle.  We drove a borrowed car to Utah.  It seats 5 and their are 7 of us, but we’ll have to return it locally this week.  We looked at vans and trucks today.  We found some things we like, but I want to sell my house on 400 East first and pay cash for our next family vehicle.  It means I can’t just load up all my kids and go somewhere for awhile.  Maybe we’ll end up buying a vehicle after we close on our house and finance it until our other house sells.  I’m not sure I want to do that, I should just be patient.

So for now, life is weird.  I don’t really have a car, I kind of have a house or two, but I’m living in a living room and family room with my 5 kids as my husband works all day in the other room (he’s working from “home”). 

The kids are generally doing well.  It’s hard not to have their own place and their own things.  Thomas has started carrying his favorite blanket everywhere with him.  It’s one of the few things in his life that are still the same. 

I need to learn to be more patient.  Patient for people to move out of our new house and our old house.  Patient for my old house to sell and patient to buy a vehicle that can fit our family.  Life will all fall into place in it’s own time and things will be great, but for now I must not worry too much over things which are outside of my power to fix or hurry.