And the House Hunting Begins!

Crazy day.  Out of three showings on our house, we got three offers in the first two days it was listed.  They got into a bidding war, and we went with an offer that was slightly over the asking price. It's so strange. I watched homes sit in our neighborhood for 6+ months without selling and that's what I had prepared myself for as well.  We're looking at homes tomorrow. Ideally I'd live to live in Naperville, but we found a few in Plainfield (north or south, I don't remember, but the realtor said that was important), a few in Naperville, and one, strangely enough, in Aurora. I know very little about these areas, but all we're doing is looking.I was supposed to enroll in school this morning but called and told them I was sick, so I'm enrolling on the first day of school on Monday. I don't have a clue how to get from Lombard to downtown Chicago.  We haven't even been to downtown Chicago yet. Everyone here is SO NICE!  Except for the weather which seems to be cloudy all the time, I love it. I'm not even used to my own neighbors stopping and just watching me until I notice them just to wave or say hello.  Mark doesn't like to hear me say this. He's afraid I'm going to go to Chicago and try to talk to strangers.  But they're so nice!  I think he can rest assured that if someone looked like a thug I wouldn't talk to them. And I don't rush up and talk to people, they usually initate it. But this is DAY TWO here. I think it's okay to compare D...
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