Another sucker

Brody woke up early last Sunday morning and I was still tired so I told him he could watch a show and I would hold him (hoping I could fall back to sleep). When I turned the TV on there was an infomercial for the Monster 1200. I admit, although I have never bought anything off of the infomercials, I have definitely been tempted--and I almost always get sucked in and watch them all the way through. We started watching this one, and I decided to be a nice mom and change the channel to something a Brody might be a little more interested in. A few minutes later Brody said, "Mom, I need my own monster." After talking to him, he really did want the steam cleaner, and was paying attention. Guess they did a good job selling that thing!

And the search continues...

I know it has been a very long time since I have updated, and since it is the last day of the month I decided I better hurry and write a post so I can say I at least posted in the month of February!

As many of you have heard, our house hunting saga continues. The real estate agent called us the end of January and said the Mortgage Insurance company didn't feel like the sellers of the home were in enough financial distress, so they wouldn't pay the claim that the lender had submitted. The lender is asking for $40,000 more, and we aren't willing to pay that. There is still a slight chance that we could get the house. We have submitted another offer to the bank, with a slightly higher offer than our previous one, in hopes that the bank will look at it again and change their mind, but I'm not really getting my hopes up since we first started the process on this house in November.