for sale sign

About a month ago we got a call from our landlord telling us that they had friends interested in buying the house that we are renting. We have been in this house for almost 11 years so we knew that the time would come eventually when we would be asked to move out. What we didn’t expect was for it to happen while Rob was out of work. He took voluntary retrenchment from the bank in July and has found it harder to get another decent paying job than we expected.

Our landlord rang again during the week to tell us that their friends were interested in buying the house and wanted to arrange for a valuer to come around, they came on Friday afternoon and now we have to sit and wait to hear back from the landlord to see if and when we have to move out and hope that Rob can find a job in the meantime. Wish us luck!

We had Caitlin home sick from school on Friday with a tummy bug, luckily it was just a 24 hour thing but now I am waiting to see if any of the other kids end up with it. I hope not! Caitie is very happy that she is better because she has a birthday party to go to this afternoon.

I think that is all the excitement we have had this week.

*Updated* – Poor Caitie never made it to the party. We took the kids to the Plaza to do some shopping in the morning. At one point Caitie turned a horrible shade of grey, but she swore she was fine. We came home had some lunch and then started getting ready for the party. While I was doing her hair, Caitie told me that she needed to have a little rest, so she went and lay on the lounge. A minute later she had thrown up all over the rug and her new party clothes. I striped her off and cleaned her up and got her settled and then took the rug outside to hose it off. This would have been fined except that it was raining, so I’m standing out in the rain with the hose and a broom, some washing powder and disinfectant, scrubbing the rug. It was quite an exciting afternoon.

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