So much going on!!!!

Before going into the details of the last week, I would like to lift one of my sisters from church up in prayer. I'm asking that you all lift her and her husband, as well as the drunk driver that hit her on 340 on the way to pick her husband up from the train station, up in prayer. Maryann is in Winchester Hospital tonight. I just found the e-mail when I got in from work. She apparently was in and out of consciousness but from the sounds of it might have (praise God) come out of this with only a concussion and bruises. I'm sure she'll feel like a Mac truck hit her come tomorrow but the drunk drivers around here are horrible. I was almost in a really bad wreck a few weeks ago (see a few posts back) by a drunk driver. I admit people in the hospital all the time for driving drunk or getting hit by someone who was drunk. This really has got to stop. Thank you for the prayers.

Onto the weeks events.....

OK, I'll start with news of the lot first. As I said in the last post, they finally broke ground on July 31. As of August 2nd they were digging out for the footers. The first 5 pics are the digging out of the basement.







These pics are the men digging out the footers. There was about 15 men digging out the bottom of the basement. It's so exciting!!!





All that to say, we're firing our Realtor!!! We notified her today. We sent out a certified letter with a list of reasons why. I am really disappointed because she seemed so sweet when we invited her into our home that first evening. We're not sure if we want to go For Sale By Owner again or if we're going to go ahead with another realtor as well a different company all together. First it took a few phone calls to even get her to print off flyer's for the house and then a few more to get her to put them on the signs in the yard. She said she would have the signs up by a Fri, but she didn't get them out there until the following Wed. She wouldn't have done that had we not stayed on top of it. Then she gives us all of the wrong dates that our house will be listed in the realtor books. The biggest thing was that we scheduled an open house with her for Sat. Aug 4th. Jason tried to reach her all week just to verify the plans. We have e-mail confirmation from her about the date, but she never will answer her phone. It goes straight to voicemail. EVERY TIME. Anyway, Jason finally gets someone in the Martinsburg office on Fri. morning (we were on the way to TN) and she says that our Realtor was on vacation and she didn't know anything about an open house. EXCUSE ME???? I spent 2 days terminally cleaning that house. I cleaned every nook and cranny so that house would look like a model home for the people coming through it during the open house. Even had 2 little girls from the church come over Thurs. to help with AJ so I could clean and have everything packed and ready to go by Fri. morning. Anyway, She said that she would call our realtor and find out what was going on and she would call us by 2pm. Jason called her back at 1:30 and this woman said that our realtor was having a family emergency and would call us later that night to explain. (Even if she was having a family emergency, shouldn't the open house been advertised anyway? How long in advance did this emergency happen???) Anyway, of course she didn't call. The only call we received was from her assistant approx 50min prior to the proposed start time of the open house. Jason and I both were livid. I don't know if you guys know how much these guys get paid for selling one stinking house but it's freaking ridiculous!!! I am not going to pay her for a job she didn't do. When the assistant called the house Saturday to leave a message, she said that our realtor would call us either Mon. or Tues to reschedule (as if). Of course, she never called. My thing is, what if Jason and I just assumed this woman was going to do her job??? We wouldn't have known anything wasn't going on until we returned home Tuesday night. Plus while we had it FSBO we showed the house approx 5-6 times. She's had the house the same amount of time and hasn't shown it not even once. Another realtor showed it once but not our realtor!! It's so frustrating. I found a saying that I really just fell in love with tonight and I'm going to use it as I close this post. I will write about the TN vacation in a day or two. I'm getting tired. It is 1:30 in the morning right now. Everyone is snoozing but me. Time to join my two men..... Now for my new mantra....

If God has led me to it...God will get me through it!!

(Don't you just love it?!?!?!?)