A piece of advice...

NEVER try to buy a home on short sale (unless you feel that patience is one of your better qualities). For the past couple of months we have had an offer in on a home that is in short sale. Yes, we were warned that these can take a long time, but I guess we didn't realize how hard this waiting was going to be. Of course, we have looked at other options and gone house hunting more times than we would like, but we always go back to this house and decide we will keep waiting. Supposedly we are at the end of the process. We have learned that we have the highest bid and are in first position on the home. Because the people who owned it were not only in upside down, but had two mortgages on the house, two different banks have to approve it. It is now in the hands of the second bank (and has been for quite some time). We have this rental house until the end of May, which seemed like a long time back in February, but now we are getting worried that we aren't going to have a house by then. Everything will work out, right??? That is what we have to believe to keep ourselves from getting too stressed about it.
Besides the all consuming house stress, life is pretty good for us here. Cailey has really loved being in school. She loves her teacher and has improved greatly in her reading and writing skills in the short time she has been here. I am really glad that she got to experience Kindergarten in the US. The rest of us are doing well too. Shane and I just got callings (YW secretary and gospel doctrine teacher) in the ward we are hoping to move into, which makes us even more anxious to actually live in the ward boundaries. See...the house thing IS all consuming...everything always goes back to getting a house. We welcome any advice or techniques in distraction so that we don't sit here waiting our lives away to find out. Help. anyone?