Our house

More prayers were answered...

We listed our house on August 24, and it sold on September 24!  1 month!

That was one item checked off of the "Moving to Columbia list".  This is our second house to sell and it was such a stressful time... I had forgotten about all of the little pieces of the "house sold puzzle" that had to be put together before a sigh of relief could be taken.  Last week was full of home inspections and we should know the results of those tomorrow.  Although we feel great about everything, you never know.  We are hopeful that there will be no setbacks.  We will continue to trust.

The next check on the list was made last weekend... we traveled, with both boys in tow, over to Columbia.  Five hours from Evansville.  We left around 5:30 in the evening (with the hopes of them sleeping - Lawson fell asleep around 11 P.M.) and we arrived around midnight, but we survived.  Traveling with children can be challenging, but those moments must be easily forgotten because we continue to do it! :)  Anyway, the next morning we were to meet with our AWESOME realtor.  He is a grandpa and we just love him; he has treated us like we were his own children (his daughters are around our age).  We had our house-hunting-list made and we were ready to go.  The boys did well and so did we.  We left on Saturday afternoon being the owners of a new house!!!  We are very excited! 

And now the wait is on...  It is new with a full unfinished basement.  We purchased the home with the completion of the basement.  The builder is in the process of doing so right now, and we will not close until November 12.  Our current house closes on October 29 so we are going to have about two weeks of limbo-living.  They will move us out on October 26th and 27th, and we will come to Martin once our house is empty.  We will live with Russ' parents during that two week period.  We will return to Columbia on November 11 to prepare for our closure and then they will move us in the 15th of November... can't come soon enough!

I am looking forward to the "calm", but am trying to enjoy this "crazy/busy" time as excitement is certainly within.  Things have been out of sorts since Russ began his new job and since I began my stay-home career, which by the way, is going great!  I fully expect things to move full-speed ahead until after the first of the year... maybe the calm will arrive with the coming of the new year.  We shall see.

So, things are moving... Paul, our awesome realtor, called Russ today.  He had been over to check on the construction and wanted to give us an update.  Isn't that nice?  I am just so thankful for his goodness.

God has guided this process and we trust that He will continue to do so.  Russ and I are so thankful for the answered prayers; our cup runneth over.