Doing Arts and Crafts in a Best Western Bathroom and Other RAD Stuff I Did This Weekend

In addition to packing up our entire house and eating more take out food in the last 48 hours than I have all year, I also got my Martha on and did some arts and crafts in a Best Western Hotel this weekend.

Normally on Monday mornings I post pictures of the groceries I purchased during the past week… but since I didn’t come home until late last Wednesday, and we started packing on TThursday I didn’t end up buying any groceries. Because silly me, I assumed when Patrick O’Malley the Irish realtor said we’d be signing on Thursday, closing on Friday, getting the keys and moving in Friday evening that that’s what would happen.

But it didn’t.

Not even close.

Ahhhh. Are you sitting down?

So. Here we go.

Friday afternoon we get the call from Patrick saying the paperwork from the people buying our house wasn’t going to get to the office in time for them to sign until after the county closed for the weekend. Which of course created a domino effect. If the people who wanted to buy our house couldn’t close by end of day Friday, we couldn’t close on the house we were buying.

Which left them {and us} in a tight spot.

According to Patrick they had scheduled a moving truck for Saturday and a bunch of their friends took the day off to help them move their stuff. With 3 kids in tow. When they found out they wouldn’t be able to close on our house in time, Patrick said they were devastated and they booked the last hotel room in town and were prepared to stay there until the county offices opened on Monday.

So we told Patrick that if the people we were buying the house from would let us store all our stuff in their garage for the weekend {they had already told him early occupancy was a big fat NO} and if the people buying our house wanted to get us their {paid} hotel room for the weekend, we would be happy to let them move into our house a few days early {before actually getting paid for it}.

1. Our stuff was already packed.

2. We can sympathize with the whole moving with kids process.

3. 2 nights in a hotel with a free breakfast and I don’t have to clean anything for 2 days? Heck ya!

And then once we were all settled in our beds Saturday night I remembered 2 very frightening things.

1. The only clean pants that were not packed and in an unmarked box in the garage of the new house were the ones I had been wearing for the past 3 days. And they were filthy. Which meant I had to wash my jeans in the bathtub and hope they’d dry by morning.

2. Holy Sheetz… I am suppose to be on tv on Monday and I totally forgot to make some up-cycled craft projects with old frames.

And that’s how I found myself on the bathroom floor of the Best Western at 10 o’clock last night with chicken wire and a hot glue gun with Lucy the puggle dog getting my Martha on.

Some days I think I think I need to be committed.

Have an AWESOME Monday! It can only get better, right?

~Mavis

If you are a local, tune into a New Day Northwest on on King 5 this morning around 11 am and watch me get through my totally unprepared segment about up-cycling picture frames.

And lastly, if you have a kind bone in your body, please, think happy thoughts for my family today as we would really like to move into our house this afternoon. Especially Lucy. 😉