It has been quite the week as we work towards finally closing on our house. There has been roof drama left and right and I have learned so many lessons that can only come through going through the house buying process your first time. There is the lesson that if someone shows you a house you don't have to formally ask them for them to apparently become your realtor. The lesson that when you buy a house from a company, they are less motivated to sell than a family who is trying to get a new house of their own. A company owned by a lawyer? Prepare to haggle your life away. The lesson that when the seller gets to pick the roofer, you get Bob the Roofing Guy who is a Better Business Bureau complaint waiting to happen. In fact, let's just dwell here for a moment. Last Friday we picked out shingles, which Monday were told were out of stock. Monday night we take the entire family up to the house to pick from the samples left inside that turned out to not be there. What was there was a toilet minus working water and a three year old who had "brown poo poo coming now". As we fished the poo out of the toilet with a coffee cup I decided next time, the grass might be a better idea...civilized or no. Tuesday the shingles are dropped off at John's work, Tuesday night the roofer is called. Wednesday...where is the roofer? Who knows. We were meant to do the final walk through tonight but with the roof not being done, it has been pushed till tomorrow, after 2:30, when the magical elves finish our roof in record time. Throw in a misplaced closing check (finally found!) and a power outage at our home and it has been a long day to cap off the long week. It felt good to finally wind down, listening to Ben coo and Joshy and Jess carry on a conversation about if there were both boy and girl cheerleaders. When asked if he wanted to be a cheerleader, Joshy adamantly said NO! So, asked what he did want to be when he grew up, he thought and then said, "A Lion". A respectable profession indeed.
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