Monday Funday
The week has started out anxious and exhausted, but it has not been without some wins.
Let me back-track for a sec- Saturday, we went on a house hunting marathon, seeing 8 homes in 4 & 1/2 hours with our awesome real estate agent (if you need one, lemme know and I'll send her your way). It was informative on several different levels: 1) day dates are amazing, even if it's house hunting. Parents of toddlers forget sometimes that they actually like their spouses and a day date can really help clear up that uncertainty. 2) The housing market is HOT in Durham. Seriously. As an example, we were midway through a house tour when our real estate agent got an email stating the house had gone into contingency from a showing earlier that morning and that our showing was cancelled. 3) All it takes is the right house in the right neighborhood to send you on a love-sick bender that can consume your every waking thought.
Sunday, we made our offer on the house we want and the anxiety clock started ticking. If you've bought a house before, you know the kind of anxiety I'm talking about: it makes you want to pace until your shoes disintegrate, but not before your eyeballs bleed from the staring contest you have with your phone. More on that later.
Today, we saw a pediatric urologist regarding our son's dilated right kidney and "duplicate collecting system." If you're not sure about what that last part means, you find yourself among most of the earth's population. As it turns out, the piping that links your kidney to your bladder is called a ureter and when you have two on one side, you have that fancy term. Interestingly enough, we learned having two ureters is the most common anomaly you can have and a bunch of people have them and don't even know it [there's your fun fact for the day- you're welcome]. The good news is the urologist was wholly unimpressed with the amount of dilation and let us know the way our son's duplicate collecting system is wired is the best kind. So, yay for little known and likely unexciting anomalies! The OB will continue to keep an eye on the dilation, but aside from some mild preventative care after his birth followed by testing, the likely prognosis is no surgery and self resolution as our son grows.
Back to disintegrating shoes and eye bleeds: the offer portion of the house purchasing saga was not without its back and forths, but ended up generally painless after ~30 hours of uncertainty. We are now the proud non-owners of a house we really like and which we may call our own as early as March 28th. Thus begins the discovery phase of house purchasing. Oh yeah, and we're listing our house on Wednesday. The trick now will be to find someone who is as eager to buy our house as we are to sell.
The week is far from over. Indeed it has only just begun. Lined up for later this week is our third fetal ECHO Thursday afternoon and Friday we get to meet with the cardiac surgeon followed by a tour of the pediatric cardiac ICU- a tour which, frankly, seems like a real horrible way to start a weekend. As I write, I remind myself those are worries for later. Tonight, we will celebrate 2 solid victories and be happy. It's been a really good day.
Let me back-track for a sec- Saturday, we went on a house hunting marathon, seeing 8 homes in 4 & 1/2 hours with our awesome real estate agent (if you need one, lemme know and I'll send her your way). It was informative on several different levels: 1) day dates are amazing, even if it's house hunting. Parents of toddlers forget sometimes that they actually like their spouses and a day date can really help clear up that uncertainty. 2) The housing market is HOT in Durham. Seriously. As an example, we were midway through a house tour when our real estate agent got an email stating the house had gone into contingency from a showing earlier that morning and that our showing was cancelled. 3) All it takes is the right house in the right neighborhood to send you on a love-sick bender that can consume your every waking thought.
Sunday, we made our offer on the house we want and the anxiety clock started ticking. If you've bought a house before, you know the kind of anxiety I'm talking about: it makes you want to pace until your shoes disintegrate, but not before your eyeballs bleed from the staring contest you have with your phone. More on that later.
Today, we saw a pediatric urologist regarding our son's dilated right kidney and "duplicate collecting system." If you're not sure about what that last part means, you find yourself among most of the earth's population. As it turns out, the piping that links your kidney to your bladder is called a ureter and when you have two on one side, you have that fancy term. Interestingly enough, we learned having two ureters is the most common anomaly you can have and a bunch of people have them and don't even know it [there's your fun fact for the day- you're welcome]. The good news is the urologist was wholly unimpressed with the amount of dilation and let us know the way our son's duplicate collecting system is wired is the best kind. So, yay for little known and likely unexciting anomalies! The OB will continue to keep an eye on the dilation, but aside from some mild preventative care after his birth followed by testing, the likely prognosis is no surgery and self resolution as our son grows.
Back to disintegrating shoes and eye bleeds: the offer portion of the house purchasing saga was not without its back and forths, but ended up generally painless after ~30 hours of uncertainty. We are now the proud non-owners of a house we really like and which we may call our own as early as March 28th. Thus begins the discovery phase of house purchasing. Oh yeah, and we're listing our house on Wednesday. The trick now will be to find someone who is as eager to buy our house as we are to sell.
The week is far from over. Indeed it has only just begun. Lined up for later this week is our third fetal ECHO Thursday afternoon and Friday we get to meet with the cardiac surgeon followed by a tour of the pediatric cardiac ICU- a tour which, frankly, seems like a real horrible way to start a weekend. As I write, I remind myself those are worries for later. Tonight, we will celebrate 2 solid victories and be happy. It's been a really good day.
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