The cat is out of the bag
Our plans have been made public. In the neighborhood, anyway. There’s a For Sale* sign in our yard, with our real estate agent’s picture on it (I wonder how many pictures she had to take before settling on that one?), so now all the world can see what we’re up to. And now it’s real. It was always going to be real, of course, and it was never a secret, but as long as only a small number of people knew about it, it wasn’t scary. Now…it’s a little scary. The guy put the sign up Friday afternoon – he just appeared, and I didn’t even notice until he was done (Riley didn’t notice the stranger hammering a giant sign into our front yard, either – good guard dog), but seeing it put butterflies in my stomach. I didn’t expect that. They’ve mostly gone away, but I imagine they’ll be back.
*Actually, it says Coming Soon – we won’t be officially listed for a few more days.