Hi all,

Enjoying a nice weekend with Scott's mom Dianne. She flew in for a surprise party we're having for Scott at a Japanese steakhouse here in a couple hours. I think he has no idea. Usually he isn't at all good at keeping secrets or surprises, so if he did know, he'd be all goofy about it, and he isn't. We'll see. He doesn't read this blog, so I feel safe sharing. I'll try to remember to take pictures but I've been bad about that lately...somehow wrangling two toddlers nonstop keeps me away from my camera.

We have a very good prospect for our house looking at it a second time on Monday. She called our realtor to ask for a second walkthru and actually told him she'd been prequalified for a loan specifically for our house. She's our next door neighbor's daughter's gymnastic coach, a recent divorcee (whose ex lives in the neighborhood behind us) and has a young son in Freeland schools. Apparantly she "fell in love" with our house and wanted to initially rent it; since we need the equity for our new build, we couldn't do it, so it's promising that she's still very interested and taking steps towards buying. We'll see. We hate to get our hopes up, but according to our neighbor, she is still on very good terms with her ex-husband and everybody, including him, is encouraging her to just step up and buy. Fingers crossed.

Hope everybody is staying warm. We've dug ourselves out and things aren't as cold as they have been.