The shoe has dropped

Ray's been gone for almost 9 hours so the ugly crying has started. Today the buyer of our house was suppose to close on his current house. When my cell rang with our Agent's number I knew it wasn't good.
Our house has appraised $4,000 below what we were suppose to sell it at. On top of that we had agreed to pay some of the buyers closing costs so we are going to be out even more. I'm trying to be creative and come up with a few tricks up my sleeve but what if this all back fires and we end up not having sold our house and it being on the market still. Ahhh. Maybe we should just move back to our precious little house??

Relocations are hard. I keep hearing that. Stop telling me that. We are not at ALL a typical relocation. Usually you pack up all your stuff and move to some new cool house that you have picked out, usually that is an UPGRADE from where you just moved from. For us we are in a temporary assignment in temporary housing aka an apartment, with neighbors below us and on all sides of us.

Usually you don't have your stuff for 4-6 days we are going 14 weeks with out our stuff. If I have a full garbage can then I have to put on my shoes, put on the kids shoes,  take the kids out side with me, let the dog bark from the apartment, walk on the HOT black top and throw the garbage away. Similar experience to go get the mail. Did I mention we are used to a garbage in the kitchen that is heavy duty and doesn't tip over when the dog smells something good? Did I mention that we sleep on a cheap mattress and have back aches all day? Did I mention that I'm used to a back yard where I can let my dog out and don't have to walk her and hear from the mailman everyday that she needs dog shoes on because the ground is too hot and her pads are going to blister?

So no this isn't a typical relocation, this is a TEMPORARY put your life on hold, try to deal with it relocation.

I'm putting this hormonal girl rant on the blog so that in hopefully a month or two I can look back and smile on how far I've come, how things are finally getting easier, hopefully by then I will have met a friend and hopefully I will know how to get to the grocery store and library with out my GPS kind of small victories and can see some light at the end of the tunnel.