 Hi everyone, welcome back to Apple Zantiares. So today is kind of a crazy day and you're probably seeing these videos way out of order and I apologize for that. But today is the first day that my house is on the market to be sold and a lot of things have led up to today. Hopefully I have filled all of you in in my previous video. But today is kind of like a benchmark day for me because it marks the first day that I am officially selling my home or our home. So my kind of like living situation is gonna be kind of changing a lot because it's just me in the house right now and I'm selling it so every day before I go to work I have to kind of like make sure that the house is like in mint condition because there could be a walkthrough or a showing basically any time of day. So I'm kind of gonna take you guys through like my plan in this video and just show you guys a couple of things that I'm like doing or practicing to help myself manage making sure my house is in mint condition every single day before I leave work. Just little things that I'm doing that are different that are gonna help me manage this because with my ADHD and like the amount of things I'm trying to tackle right now my brain is kind of everywhere and so to help myself stay in a focused mindset on my house I have to do certain things a little bit differently than normal. So I'm gonna show you guys what that means. Okay so for example this is one of my linen closets in my hallway. Now normally I would put my backpacks kind of right here on this little landing place where I always just kind of throw my stuff but because I want to make sure that this area stays organized and clean I am trying to get in the habit of hanging up my backpacks here. So like this is my work bag and then I have my gym bag here as well. So I'm trying to like be conscious about hanging up my stuff in there. I can leave my purse because I'm gonna take that with me in just a few minutes when I go run errands but I'm gonna try to do my best to remember to hang up my backpack here right when I walk in the door so that I don't have it just like out and this is good practice anyway this is something that I should be doing anyways but I just don't. So that is one thing I've been trying to do to help myself stay on top of things. This is not usually here but Cash is out with my parents he'll be back to grab that and then another thing is trying to keep the sink clear of anything. So if I hand wash something like let's say I have a dish that can go in the dishwasher what I'm gonna do is immediately put it in there rinse it put it in there no questions asked. Normal Charlotte would have like a drying towel here and I would hand wash things put them there to dry because usually I'm hand washing like things I'm gonna use on a daily basis but instead of doing that I'm gonna start putting them down here on this little drying rack and since it's just me in the house I really shouldn't have very many dishes other than like my coffee cup or like my water cup or maybe like a fork or something that I'm just like I just used and I needed to dry but like I have to run and I'm not sure if someone's gonna come in and look at the house so I decided I'm gonna start drying like just basic dishes down here ones that have to be hand washed that way all I have to do and I put like all my dish washing stuff down here all I have to do is wash it stick it down here and then the counter stays completely clean. So seeing as it's like my first day of the house being up for sale I'm gonna kind of like as I come up with ideas of things I need to do to keep myself organized I'm gonna continue to add this video and update you guys on the whole process because it's gonna be a lot like my whole house is like staged so like everything is in like the perfect place and I have to be very cognizant of where it is otherwise I could get myself really unorganized so without being said I'll update you on the next idea when I have one. So another trick that I thought I would try to help me keep the house like perfectly ready for showing is by covering up half the counter with a towel I'll get ready right here in front of this towel if I need to sink I'll use that one but I'll get ready right here in front of this towel that way any like makeup or hair drops onto this towel rather than on the countertop and then that way before I leave I just kind of fold the towel up put it away in the closet and then the countertop is perfectly clean so we're gonna try that out today see if it works. Cheers! All right you guys so it is March 9th. Let me check my watch, what time is it? Yes. Okay so it's March 9th and I honestly don't remember the last time I checked in with you guys but there have been some new developments I do not understand what's going on with my hair there's like we're not even about that. I apologize for the weird noise in the background my air fryer is running right now I'm cooking bacon for my breakfast I'm gonna be making a bacon cheese wrap with like those Ezekiel wraps anyway so I wanted to do a quick check-in with you guys because there have been some new developments in this whole process of us moving up to Prescott. Sorry this lighting is gonna be terrible but it's quiet in here so Monday okay so a little bit of background my mom has a friend a long-time lifelong friend she was in our Bible study growing up she was in our church she came to all of my plays and she I never really knew what she did for a living like I just kind of you know existed knowing her and a few years ago I found out that she was the principal at one of the schools up in the Prescott area so naturally you know with me and Scott moving up there my mom had mentioned to her that I would be looking for a job and if she were to have any openings to let her know and of course she was like yes of course have her send me her resume I don't know if I have any positions yet but I just might in a few weeks so send me her resume and then if anything were to open up I can contact her well she did contact me and this was on Monday so this was the fifth and she asked me if I wanted to interview the position she was interviewing for is a sixth grade math and science and it just so happens that this is the school that I went to when I was living in the Prescott area as a child the school used to service all middle school so when I was there it was 6 7th and 8th graders but now the school is for 5th and 6th graders it is a steam based 5th and 6th grade like pre middle school I don't know what you would even call it but it's 5th and 6th graders only so I interviewed and one of the lovely people in the interview was actually a co-worker of mine from a few years back and it was just really nice to see two friendly faces in the interview so of course we went through the interview everything went really great I asked tons of questions because I always do it's so important to do that and all of their questions were all of my questions were answered like in a wonderful way so a few hours later she calls me and offers me the position but she says I don't know if it's for sure going to be 6th grade it might end up being 5th grade I'm not positive but everything is supposed to be finalized this Friday with her staff so she said let's I said well why don't I wait until Friday when you can let me know if it's gonna be 5th or 6th grade and I'll give you my answer on Friday so it's Thursday and that means that tomorrow I could potentially have a job and the school this school is the feeder school to where cash would end up going when he's in fifth grade and sixth grade and it's very close to the lot that we're trying to purchase it's also my mom's house where we're gonna be staying for the next year ish is also zoned for that school so it's kind of like a blessing but I'll be completely honest with you guys and I told her in the interview that 6th grade math scares me I failed it twice as a child and it sort of traumatized me I would be teaching 6th grade math and 6th grade science so the 6th grade science is like no problem oh 6th grade science is like super close to 4th grade science it's all just like an elevated version so in that aspect I'm really excited to teach science again they they they don't have a 6th grade mystery science program however they do have a 6th grade generation genius program and one of my dear dear friends that's with me at my current school has already promised to send me anything and everything that she can to help me out with the transition because she is like a master at 6th grade science and she's actually moving into a different position next year so she won't be using much of her like 6th grade science stuff she's actually gonna be moving into a STEM position that's fabulous for her sorry guys cutting my own head off here trying to wrap up my bacon so that I can get going so anyways tomorrow is Friday I had been communicating with the principal at the school that I worked at with Jennifer prior to moving back down here and we've been trying to kind of find a way for me to get back to that school but as of right now she hasn't had any like openings that I would be interested in she did say that there might be a 6th grade ELA opening but I don't know I I almost would rather teach math than ELA just because you know with ELA there's you know reading barriers and and grading writing and honestly if it was up to me I would prefer to teach math because math is typically like a here's four ways to do it you know pick a strategy that works best for you and call when we call it a day you know and there's so much more fun like games to play in math and I don't know I just would prefer personally I would just prefer to teach math over ELA so anyways it's not looking like our old my old school with Jennifer is gonna be able to offer me a position in time so I think I'm probably going to end up accepting the position to teach either 5th grade math and science or 6th grade math and science which is a huge leap for me I've never taught anything above 4th grade I like 6th graders like all of my past kids that are now in 6th grade that come and visit me I just adore them like socially they're like so lost because they're in this like huge middle school with all these older kids but I'm hoping that the 6th graders that are at a 5th and 6th grade school aren't going to be as mature as the 6th graders down here I'm just gonna go with it and you know what like this is all a new adventure and I have to accept that it's a new adventure and I have to you know welcome new into my life so it is Thursday tomorrow I have to give my answer a lot can happen between now and tomorrow but I think that I've sort of made peace with everything and I would like to start learning about 6th grade math again so today I'm actually gonna go down to my 6th grade math teacher at my current school and just observe for like 15 minutes just to see like how she like and it's it's using Eureka math I've taught using Eureka math before basically everything is scripted for you there's ways to like make it more engaging and fun and things like that but like basically everything is scripted like it's pretty impossible to fail unless I don't understand a concept in which case they assured me there are math coaches that can help me out if there's a topic or like some sort of content that is confusing to me so anyway I figure I'm 32 years old I'm a college graduate if I can't learn 6th grade math at this point in my life then we've got a major problem that we need to solve so anyways that is the latest update um yeah cash is excited he's like oh I'm gonna get to ride the bus to school because he'd be able to ride the bus to his school so he wouldn't be stuck coming in early with me or staying late with me he'd be able to ride the bus home both to our new lot hopefully fingers crossed we get it and or my mom's house so either way he'll be able to ride the bus he could even ride the bus to my sister's house if he needed to so with that being said I feel like I feel like I need to go with it and just accept change and embrace it and then get started like I can spend all summer focusing on how to teach 6th grade math and develop a curriculum for 6th grade science and they said they have certain like they have resources and tools and they're looking at curriculums but they really just want teachers to do what's best for kids teach the standard by any means necessary use the curriculums we bought but if you need to mix it up a bit you know then that's okay so yeah that's the latest and greatest wish me luck I'll check in and let you guys know if I accepted it or if something came from left field from the other school but I'll keep you guys in the loop so I have another update for you guys a couple of updates actually so the first one is I have officially accepted a position at one of the elementary schools in the Prescott area and it was gonna be the school where Jennifer and I taught together but some things took place nothing negative just other opportunities presented themselves and I had to be an adult and make a decision and I did so I will not be working with Jennifer I will be working in a different district but we'll still be like 15 minutes away like living 15 minutes away from each other so we're gonna plan on seeing each other as often as possible and like doing planning together and like back to school stuff and all those things so I am excited to be back with Jen but I did accept a position in the Prescott area at an elementary school and I'll be teaching German police, Fourth Aid Science and Social Studies at this point you probably have already seen my announcement video and so this isn't news to you but it was a very long process and maybe someday I'll make a video like a story time like telling you guys how it all went down the decision to take this position because I think it would be a very interesting story if you guys hear. Also in the development yesterday was Easter and the Saturday prior we actually got an offer on our home the offer was a lot lower than our asking price and they wanted us to cover closing costs at first we countered with something else I don't want to even get into it because it's a lot of like unnecessary information but bottom line we countered back and we ended up just taking their offer because our house has been listed for over a month now and we're kind of in that like limbo area where it's like okay if we don't accept an offer like we really don't know what we could be getting further down the line so we really just wanted to like accept what we could get and move on so we are gonna be making a little bit less than we imagined we're actually gonna net like around 20 grand less than we thought we would but we are still gonna net enough to do what we need to do with that money so it'll all be okay it's just a little bit less than we thought it was gonna be so that is what it is we're just gonna move on accept the offer and now we don't have to pay a mortgage for a home we're not living in anymore because May 25th rolls around we move out the house is sitting there for sale so we decided we're just gonna go ahead and take the offer and they've accepted they've accepted that we've accepted so now we're in escrow which means that our move out date will be May 18th so I lose someone lost a point in specials so we will be moving out of the house the week before school is out which means I will probably move in with my neighbors for the last week of school and then that final week will move everything out of my classroom so we'll probably end up having like two you hauls will move the house in one and then I'll just rent another one for my classroom and move that up that's final day so I'm very very excited it seemed like it was never gonna happen but this is like one of the last pieces to our puzzle the very last thing that we need to do is get our owner builder loan approved and make the final purchase on our lot so what this means this like home sale if everything goes through and all that then we will be in a short escrow for our lot and the the property will be ours by the end of May so it's really exciting I'm praying that we get this construction loan because if we don't then we are royally in trouble I don't see why we wouldn't get it though because we both like have our official jobs and like we've shown that we are capable and everything like that so it should all be okay but I'm excited I'm really excited I'm so happy there's so many other things I want to share with you guys but it's all very personal so if you're interested in hearing more personal story time we are gonna be beginning to update our family YouTube channel within the next couple of weeks I don't know when you're seeing this it's probably gonna be like the end of April that you're seeing all these videos but if you're interested in following along with our like housebuilding journey and our move journey and all that stuff go ahead and click my family channel link in the description below and we will do our very best to continue posting there because it is kind of nice for us to keep all these memories and such so anyway that is the latest and greatest when I have any more updates I'll let you guys know if not thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you in the next video bye guys