One prayer at a time...if you know me at all, you know how long I've been griping and complaining about wanting and NEEDING to sell our house! I've lived here for 10 years and my husband has lived here even longer than that. I am attatched to our house in some ways...its our first home, it's the place we brought both of our babies home from the hospital, it's the place I've created memories with my kids.
But, it is just a house.
Our HOME is wherever we live.
Jonathan has been promising me since last year that 2008 was going to be our year. He said we'd look at putting the house up after the first of the year, and maybe actually do it in the spring. Well, when January 1 hit, I did too. I kept bringing it up, relentlessly. I am more ready than ever, and my goal was to get him on board too....he resisted. And resisted. And finally, I enlisted the troops...whenever conversations would turn to the subject, I was able to get our friends to agree with me (it wasn't hard, haha). So, after talking with someone Sunday who recommended our agent, we emailed her, and she came over last night.
Our house is now, OFFICIALLY for sale.
We signed the paperwork, she gave us a "Honey Do" list to work on the house
....and she pounded the hugest sign in our yard.
It was really exciting!
Before she left, she hit me with a question that I wasn't really prepared for
"When do ya'll want to start looking?"
LOOKING?
Oh, wow! Yeah, well...I don't know. I would love to look now...but we have to sell this one first.
I really hadn't thought of this angle...my whole focus is selling this house, and I only dream of what we want out of a house and where we want to move. We elected to wait until we got a bite on the house before we go looking...When time comes to look, now THAT will be fun!!!
Did I mention I'm excited?
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I am bitterweetly excited for you. That house is where I come and enjoy my grandchildren from time to time and where we've had some fun Thanksgiving breakfasts and Christmas evenings. But it's also the last house my Mom and Dad lived in, it's where my Mother went to be with the Lord and where I put my Dad to bed many nights. Not a lot of memories in the short time they lived there, but some powerful ones. Ah, but it's time to move on to new things and I can't wait to see your and Jonathan's excitement when you get to search for your new house and start making all new memories in a place that has no old memories to think about! Now....we need to start praying that your house will sell quickly! God has a plan!!
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