The counter offer!

We put our first offer in on the house on Saturday January 14th! We found out on January 17th that there had been two offers put in on the house, so we had the option to counter offer or hope that our first offer would remain highest and best. We had already decided that if this occurred we would counter and what number would be our highest and best offer. During this whole offer/counter offer process we got hit with a snow/ice/wind storm that resulted in several people without power and add in the fact that the home was a Fannie May/banked owned home... which resulted in waiting what seemed like a forever, sleep deprived, anxiety ridden... extremely long eight days! Finally, on the 24th we got the word that we were highest and best! Wahoo!!