Two Weeks and 153 Chocolate Chip Cookies Later...

We have our first contract on the house!  It came in last night...so technically, we got our contract exactly 2 weeks from the day that we listed it on the market.  Nothing is final yet.  We are negotiating said contract right now.  We plan to kick back a counter offer.  Play a bit of hard ball.  You know how that all goes.  It's not exactly the contract we would have hoped...so we are hoping to improve the terms a little bit and then...if we can get it all to gel...we should be good to GO!  I am anxious this afternoon and tired and so ready to pull some closure on this one.  Mostly, I am ready to just get the heck out of Texas and get on with life in AZ!  THAT is what I am most ready for!  The kids have just about 35 days until school is OUT for the year.  And when that day comes we would SO love to be loading up and hitting the road for our NEW house and new town.  We have had SO many showings in these two weeks.  17 different showings...which means the house has been beyond perfect and spotless 17 different times in the last 14 days.  And each and every time I have baked a pan of fresh, hot, chocolate chip cookies and left them out on a plate on the counter by the "information about this house" folder.  9 cookies, to be exact.  So nine cookies, times 17 showings adds up to a grand total of 153 hot, gooey, fresh baked goodness. The buyers have enjoyed many of those.  But nearly ALL of those.   I'm sure you can imagine what 153 (give or take two or three cookies a showing) cookies is doing to my diet plan right now...so time is of the essence here.  We have GOT to get this house SOLD so the cookie madness can just stop.  I am going to need to run many MANY miles to work all of this off!  But enough about that!  Pray for a good resolution to the contract.  I'm stressed.  And stressed.  And anxious.  And stressed out about it all.  We need to sell the house.  Tonight.  The end.  Please pray that that is exactly what happens!