The Countdown Begins

We are two weeks and five days away from closing – April 21^st (we think)!! I drove by the house yesterday and the “Sold” sign is finally up. It felt like it took forever to get to this point. I can’t believe we’re already in April. March flew by so quickly because of the classes I was taking, National Junior Honor Society, work, and a bunch of other stuff going on. I can only hope that April will go quickly as well. Our friends, Eric and Zosia, closed on their house in mid-March, and Matt and I went there on Saturday to help them paint and get things ready. It made me even more excited and antsy to get into our house! I'm so happy for them, but I'm pretty jealous, too. Haha! I am pretty sure that as soon as we sign those papers, I’m going to be in that house working my tail off every waking moment until it is “ours”.

I will, however, be forcing a break on April 22^nd from 6 to 9. (Here comes my plug for Paddy Kelly’s and the Relay for Life fundraiser! Haha.) A good friend of ours, Kerry, is a team leader for a Relay for Life team. Relay for Life is an overnight cancer walk that raises money for the American Cancer Society. In order to raise as much money as possible, the team does all sorts of things including a wine/rum/beer/tequila tasting at a liquor store in Salem this coming weekend with lots of raffles. (I’m thinking I’ll try for the Red Sox tickets!) Recently, one of my closest friends growing up, affectionately known as Little Dave by my entire family and most of my friends, purchased Paddy Kelly’s with his business partner, Adam. We hooked Kerry and Little Dave up and on April 22^nd, Paddy Kelly’s will be hosting a night of food and fun as a fundraiser for Relay for Life. For a $10 cover charge, please consider joining us for give-aways, free food (and their food is fantastic!), and raffles as well as good times with friends as we fight for a cure!

In the meantime, I’m pretty sure Matt and I will be doing our last minute shopping and gathering of supplies before we move in. I want to put together a couple of bins of cleaning supplies and paint supplies so that we can walk in and get started. We’ve formulated a plan and we have the best of intentions but I guess only time will tell!