Disappointment

Well, after the wonderful weekend last week - where we accepted an offer on the house - we had a bit of a miserable one this weekend as our buyers pulled out because they were £11K short on what they could borrow. It seems to me that perhaps they should have worked out how much they could borrow before they went making offers on any houses...So, very disappointing to say the least. Now it looks like we'll definitely have to rent this place out until the market picks up again. We'll leave it up for sale for another couple of weeks just on the offchance that someone will buy it quickly but then we'll have to get it rented.

The good news though is that Ellie's christening has been arranged for August 3rd, at the very teeny tiny church just down the road from the new house. It's on the private Pitchford Estate but the church is open to the public and it just so happens that the once a month service there falls on the date that we wanted to get Ellie christened, so that was good.

Things are coming along at the new house - the outside is in the early stages of being rendered, we are almost finished tiling the kitchen floor - having already done the utility and downstairs cloakroom. The cloakroom suite has all been fitted, the boiler is in and working, we also now have the luxury of running water - hot and cold! The first coat of colour has been done in our room and we are thinking, as the paint goes on so thickly, that it might actually only need one coat, which will save us some time as our room is enormous!

Our main priority during the next week is to do the final tiles in the kitchen, and grout what we've done. After this is done, we will paint the visible parts of the kitchen walls and only then can we start to build the kitchen cabinets and get them fitted. I can't wait to see the kitchen in place, it'll really start to feel like a home then!

We've got all the skirting and architrave arriving on Monday and so we'll need to get that all stained and fitted. Until that's been done, we can't fit our doors or carpets!!

As far as young Ellie goes, she's having a bit of a strange time of it of late. She is now very able to turn herself over onto her tummy from her back and does so very frequently. The problem with this is that she doesn't like being on her tummy but doesn't seem to be able to help herself rolling onto it! Once she is able to roll herself back this won't be an issue but it's certainly a pain until she does!

Ellie's two bottom front incisors are now peeking through so she is doing lots of gnawing and dribbling. She has a new favourite trick too - if one of us taps our finger on her mouth, she starts making a noise so that she sounds like a little kid pretending to be a Red Indian!

Right, I think that's the longest post I've written so I'll stop for now. We don't have any photos handy at the moment to post so it's a text only post I'm afraid!!