Hey, Good Morming Everyone, it's been quite awhile sine I last posted to my blog; we've been in the middle of making some pretty life changing decisions so here is the latest.....
We put a deposit on an apartment yesterday. Yea!! The apartment is in Sugar House. We will list our house for sale today. The apartment won't be available until Oct 17th. It is in the Irving Schoolhouse complex (not a Senior complex, but...) SOooo convenient for all our favorite activities: Sugar House Ward, archery, Fairmont Aquatic Center and Park, Sugar House Park, 10,000 Villages, Breathe Day Spa, The "Dollar" Theater, Brickhouse Plaza, Wild Oats, etc.,etc. Everything is within 3 or 4 blocks. The complex has an outdoor pool, indoor racquetball courts, indoor 1/2 court basketball, dry sauna, fitness center and an upscale lounge with a big screen TV, chess tables, etc. (a real Yuppie kind of place). Each building has a security system. Our apartment is on the ground floor with a patio. We have assigned parking in an underground garage on the same level as our apartment so Dad can access the parking garage in his wheelchair directly from our building. The rent is 1/2 what we would have paid at Highland Cove and they allow small pets (so Callie is not homeless). The apartment is very upscale with 9' ceilings and crown molding. Our apartment is 2 bedrooms ( one is the size of my bedroom and the other is the size of our guest room and both have walk-in closets) and 1 bath, the dining room is the same size as ours at the house and the living room is just 1 foot shorter and narrower than the one at the house. Dad really likes the apartment and the location and we won't have the maintenance that we have on the house and yard. We are pretty confident that the house will sell for what we are asking and that it will sell soon (there just isn't much available in our price range) the realtor's research indicated that the average days on the market in our area and price range is 22 days, so we could be homeless for a while and would probably go to Florida to visit until we could get into the apartment (we talked to Mindy today and they were planning on having us come to visit anyway).
Dad had an appointment with the neurologist yesterday and he is revising his medications to address the Dyskenisia (excess upper body movement) he has been experiencing lately. Hopefully the new regimine will help with his balance (falling) and his neck pain. The Dr. wants to make changes and additions to his medications one at a time, but said that once we get the dyskenisia under control he will try some medications that should help with Dad's cognitive problems. I'll keep everyone posted on any new developments. For now, we are packing things us again.
Some of you may not know that Aaron has moved to a new address 717 142nd Pl. SE, Bellevue, WA 98007. Spencer is working in Richfield now and they are putting their house on the market soon and will be looking for something in Richfield (that is a long comute from Kearns). Thanks to everyone for staying in touch with blogs and pictures. Love to all, Mom