My husband has been announcing that we are moving to a smaller house and has spent an hour or so the last two days looking at houses and showing them to me. I had already combed the realtor listings, but they all started running together.

Our Grandson, who got transferred to the coast, was going down this weekend to look for a house. The manager of all the locations lives there and suggested a townhouse where his mother lives, and told them that it was a safe area. They checked the safest area map, and it was indeed. Come to find out it is the same company he is renting from now so he gets a deal on breaking the lease and move-in costs. That will help them a lot. There was even one that the tenants are in the process of moving this week, and they are already pre-approved and have paid their deposits. One big thing checked off their list. Their nerves are a lot calmer.

Since Grandson didn't take off, two other guys took off this weekend, so our grandson volunteered to pick up extra hours. That will certainly help with all the extra expenses they will have next month.

We are getting new flooring. Yesterday, my husband was going over the quote and found that they had made a typo, which made the whole quote add up wrong. He was on the phone for a while but found that he was right. It will save us about $1,500.00 off the quote. I am always grateful to save money.

Son and DIL are finally having the siding and flooring in their house changed. They have hated both the whole 10 years that they have lived there, but since they were newly renovated to sell, they haven't wanted to sink money into changing them. They have finally decided to change it and make it reflect them. So far, it is looking so good, and I think they, especially she, will like living there more. They love the area and like the house, but just never liked the outside or floors. I think they will be a lot happier there now.