Adulting Is Hard – Moving Related

As I mentioned before we are moving. And boy is adulting hard work. In the last couple weeks I have spent hours trying to get all the pre-approval and approval for a home loan all figured out. I started by contacting our current mortgage lender, and that went nowhere at first. Once they called back after a week and a half they were like, “Oh, this is easy, sorry for the delay.” But it was still a bit of work online. Then we decided to get more quotes from other companies (good idea). Then it was hours of getting those companies all the right info. And of course all of them wanted slightly different info. I will say that Mutual of Omaha Mortgage has been the easiest to deal with and to upload info to. Their website was easy to work with. Rocket mortgage was a challenge.

Then there is the picking of a house and getting all that to work out. The agent we are dealing with in Idaho, Brian, is doing a great job of staying up to date with the selling agent and to stay in contact with us to make sure we have what we need. We ran into a possible hiccup with the fact that we were ready to make an offer, but then realized that “B” hadn’t started her conversations with the relocation team in Idaho and part of the relocation perk is that they will cover some of the closing costs. But we didn’t know if they would if we started the process before they talked with “B”. So that was a panic – oh no did we overstep – moment. But the Micron people were awesome and worked with our agent and we got the go ahead in a day.

Then there is all the other stuff: schools for the kids, dance studios, churches, and more.

I had to tell my co-workers and that was hard. I didn’t cry as much as I expected to, but there were a few tears. It is always with respect to the support that people show me that makes me weepy. I don’t like letting people down, and I feel like I am at school, but I know that this is the better option for my family. And that is far more important. But talk about hard adulting. 

Signing papers on a house for an offer is hard. It makes it a lot more real. Then when they countered us it was like, “wait, is this not the right house?” But the counter was so minimal that it was an “easy” adulting moment for me. 

The thought of moving sucks and is a part of adulting I am not looking forward to. While it is true that the relocation package makes it a lot easier. But still A LOT OF WORK.

Emotions are running raw at times with us all.