Things are starting to fall into place...

After a week of nothing by worry and STRESS, I think things might be starting to fall into place. The past week has been a whirlwind of decisions about what we should do about the house that we have a contract on and our existing home. The news hasn't made us feel much better about a already bad situation with the housing market! Every time I turn around, I am hearing how bad it is and that it is going to get worse. Almost every financial expert I have heard has advised people not to sell now, if you can possibly help it. We were seriously considering trying to get out of our contract with the new house because of the mortgage downfall and due to the fact that we might be paying "twice" the house payment for a while until we sell our house. Yesterday at noon, we officially decided that we were going to back out of the contract using the inspection contingency. However, late in the afternoon several things changed and we actually got an OFFER late last night. We countered because it was a little lower than we were wanting, plus they want a sale contingency, which was my biggest fear all along. The couple is relocating from Memphis so that makes us a little hesitant because we don't know that market very well. Please pray for us that we will reach an agreement! It would make all of this much more settling if we knew that we had a contract on OUR house!!! We are at a little less than 3 weeks from our closing! Time is sure moving quickly! I guess I will spend the rest of my day- guess... PACKING!