Real estate excitement!

I haven't mentioned some good news that's been bubbling up around our house buying adventure, mostly because it's not the sort of information to post on a public blog, but I'm happy tonight to say that our agent is meeting with the sellers in about a half hour.  We'll see how they react to our offer...  Although we found out today that another property selling in our neighborhood just dropped it's selling price $10,000.  I can't believe that buying our house is a serious likelihood :)!  It seems like so much money and so much responsibility!  We also when to see an estate planning lawyer so that we might figure out how to set things up so that I can be a beneficiary of assets in the event of Laurie's passing away without upsetting my current health insurance benefits and SSI.  We (Laurie mostly) found a great lawyer who specializes in Catholic estate planning and was very very helpful in steering us into the right plans that fit our current (and future) needs.  Especially in Catholic teachings on end of life care.  Well that's the good news, we'll see what happens as far as the house goes... lots of hoops to jump through - keep us in your prayers!