Sunday, June 10, 2007

Home???

Getting from here to there is turning out to be one of the harder parts of this transition. There was no question in my mind that showing and selling the house was going to be difficult to do with just me and the kids at home during the day. But when it really happened it was at least as hard as I thought it would be. I was hoping that it'd be easier than I thought, you know like when you build something up in your head as being really hard or really bad and then the reality of the matter is that it wasn't so bad... probably cause you thought it was going to be SO bad? Well, not in this case. If you can imagine, I had to move all the toys out of the house. By that I mean that each day I'd bring in a plastic tub of toys from the garage for the kids to play with. We had no shoes in the house, plastic on our newly cleaned carpet, no snacks anywhere but the table and a mother constantly hollering "No." It was not fun, not for me or for the kids, especially the kids I'm sure! But God is faithful isn't He.

We spent the first weekend that we could in Fort Wayne searching for a house. That was the first weekend in June. We were placed with an outstanding realtor who knew the Fort Wayne area very well. We had a number of homes on our list that we wanted to see, 10 to be exact. Going from one to another was very tiring and I must say, I have a new respect for realtors that are good. We saw some that we liked and some that we could easily scratch off the list. Our realtor recommended that we narrow it down to three and see them each again.

In hind site I recognize that I was more focused on seeing the one house that I wanted to see that I had put myself at a disadvantage for seeing the others. There was a home that I had seen online that I had my heart set on and it was the second to last home that we saw. Thankfully, God gave Eric the right eyes to see each house. In this way, Eric showed true leadership of our family by choosing a house for the top three that made no impression on me initially (mainly because I was more interested in seeing the one than I was in looking at all the rest. I was praying that the one I'd seen on line wouldn't let me down in person, but in hind site, I can honestly say that it really did. At the end of the day, the house that made the impression on Eric and not on me initially is the one we bought. I give total glory to God for that because had it not been for Eric's thoughtful eye, we never would have this perfect house for us. I have since fallen in love with the house. In fact, it only took one more visit to the house to look for me to fall for it.

Still, I had the stress of how I would handle the upcoming days and weeks as we tried to sell our house. Here again another piece to this never ending puzzle has fit perfectly together. As suggested by my mom and dad at the time that we were house hunting (they joined us in Fort Wayne mainly for child care purposes) I come to you by way of my brother's computer here in my home town. It worked out that my brother is away coaching for the season and as soon as school was out, Katie and the girls joined him, leaving their house empty. They were gracious enough to let me and the kids come stay here while they were gone and we were in limbo. We are very grateful. So, until we sell our house and/or we close on our new house, this will be our home. So far, the kids love it. Though we've only been here 24 hours. It does work out nicely cause there are plenty of toys for the kids. Andrew is getting in touch with his feminine side and the girls love all the girly toys. The neighbors are nice and we are close to family and friends. All around a great deal, although we do miss Eric and aweful lot already!

We are praying that we will have some more activity and lookers at our house and that we are able to move the closing date of our new house up so that we can make the final step in this transition and finally be HOME!!!