- Sunday: home late at night from 6week vacation
- Monday: our daughter's 2nd birthday celebrated with family time at home &ice cream
- Tuesday: kayaking and bike ride... contacted our real estate agent
- Wednesday: think over "should we definitely sell our house?"
- Thursday: "Yup, let's do this!" signed on the dotted line to sell
- Friday & Saturday: clean CLEAN CLEAN!
- Sunday: 2 pre-showings and an afternoon Open House
Buzz - buzz - buzz like busy bee's! So that means we were back in our home less than a week before it was on the market and had an open house where we were lucky to have 17parties sign in the sheet to visit our home. What a great turnout for a holiday weekend! Praying we find the right buyer for passing on our lovely home so that they can live in our amazing neighborhood with awesome neighbors! (Can you tell this is going to be very emotional for me?!)
The first question we always get is, "So where are you guys going?" The truthful answer we are telling everyone is "We don't know yet!" Although we are happy with our decision, we are quickly realizing that answer is unsettling for most. Through our sense of adventure and excitement for a new journey, we are getting mixed review feedback from friends &family and more questions start flying in our direction about jobs, medical insurance, what we are going to do with our furniture, and the most confusing inquiry is "when are you going to come back," which we are still wondering if that means to this area or back to reality, hahaha!
It sounds like a carefree and casual answer when we say that we are still unsure of where we are going after the house sells but I assure you it's not. The thrill of adventure and our love of travel, withered hopes and crushed dreams, years of hard work and careful budgeting are all taken in account during sleepless nights filled with lack of decision making. Not to mention that it's harder to make these types of decisions when you are responsible for the direction of your family: spouse, children, and pets. Sometimes we feel like we have clarity but most of the time I feel like we are making decisions on a day-to-day basis. The best way to describe it is that this decision to sell our house is simple for us and everything else will follow.
"If God is for us, who can be against us? And we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us." (Romans 8:31; Philippians 4:13)
I believe regrets in life stem from collective decisions that we make over the course of time that are not made intentionally. If personal decisions we make each day actually matter to us, if focus is kept on the right priorities, if we take a leap of faith and trust, one little if can change everything! We have decided that object things can weigh you down. Limit those and you will find out what grounds you.