To close or not to close...(on our house)

Our home is finished and it's time to close and move in....or is it? YOU see we were set to close September18, then they pushed it back to October 15. Then the builder said possibly October 5 or 7th, then the Lender said possibly October 11 or 12. Needless to say, our hopes went up and down. Finally on Wednesday, October 10, they said the closing date was set for Friday at 11 am. (insert happy dance!)

Then Thursday night I got an email with the closing papers and we off by thousands of dollars! (Thank goodness I did my homework and knew what everything should be.) So the HUD statement had to be revised and the lender was saying that they didn't think we could close till the following week. (insert my mom mad face) Then on Friday I called again to get an update (while I'm at the first day on a new job), the loan processor said Wednesday at the earliest, and didn't really care it seemed. She got an earful!! (Are you kidding me? So Justin and I cancelled internet purchases, rescheduled the dinning room table to be delivers etc. Then I picked up the kids from school and got a call at 3:15 saying our loan officer felt bad, pulled some strings, and we could possibly close at 5:00pm that day. 

So I go to Kroger get some groceries. Then I get another call at 4:15 saying our closing appointment was at 4:30. I told them I wouldn't be there till 5 (because it's 40 mins away in rush hour traffic). I ran, (I mean I really ran) into the bank all all 4 kids in tow, hoping they could keep up...like a Mama duck and all her ducks behind her, got a cashiers check for the closing cost, and sprinted out of there. We drove to the closing office, (and almost got in 2 car accidents, for real, that was before we got lost in Dallas- but we got there.) We met Justin there at 5:10, and with my heart beating so fast, and my head pounding from stress, I told the kids be on your best bahavior or they're all dead; then everything went well from there. (insert frustrated, relieved, overwhelmed mommy face.) Signed the documents and bought a new house. Done with the house stress- or so I thought until the next day... that will be the next post. ;)