Two weeks and two days ago my wife and I moved into our new forever home. We have unboxed and unpacked about 90% of the boxes and have organized and put away most of our belongings, which means we’re getting close to the point where we can stop asking each other where we put the thingamajig or in what drawer the whatchamacallit is.

I would say it will take until the end of March before we have everything set up and running smoothly. We are having some custom closets installed today and tomorrow and my new home office desk is being delivered tomorrow, so I will have no excuse for putting off doing my taxes any longer.

But the big news is that we already sold our former home. It went on the market on March 5th and five days later we had an over-asking, all-cash offer with no contingencies. And six days later (today), we went to close of escrow. In other words, we sold our house and got paid just eleven days after we put it on the market. Woo Hoo!

I am sure that our house sold so quickly and for a premium price because of our private backyard oasis we created for that house.

I won’t lie. I am going to miss that backyard. The backyard in our new home is big and it’s nice. But if our previous backyard was a ten, our new backyard is a six. Maybe a seven at best. But then again, we are now only five minutes from our son, his wife, and our grandkids, so there is that.