a glimpse of lately...

What a week! I honestly have not checked my reader (everyone's blog) or posted on my blog in over a week!!! to sum it up, it's been CRAZY around here!!! We put our house on the market last saturday and had an open house that day (yes, up all night cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning) and this wonderful family came by to look at our house. They absolutley loved it and were so grateful that they had found a house that they loved and where they could raise a family. They came back later that day again and said they wanted to put in an offer. YEA!!! So, a couple days later we get an offer in our mailbox and it was a little lower than our asking price. Mark called them the next day and had to sadly decline their offer. They hung up with eachother and 5 minutes later the phone rings. It's the same guy and he says..we'll do it...we will give you your asking price. He then went on to say again how much they loved our house and the work we put into it. The conversation ended like this...

mark: sounds great!
guy: can you do me a favor?
mark: sure, what's that?
guy: can you go take your for sale sign down?
mark: (gladly) I'll go do that right now.
(later we found out that the wife got in her car and drove by just to make sure!-they were that excited!)

We are so blessed to have been able to sell our house that quick. I got home later that night and mark told me this whole story. I started to cry because I couldn't believe it. I was so sad to leave this house that we started our little family in, I was sad since mark grew up in this house. I was sad to leave a house where we put so much work into to make it our home. avery's room was just painted a few months ago..I was sad to leave such a cute room. I was sad to know that in a few months we will be in a whole different area with people I don't know yet. I was sooooo sad about not living right down the street to the most amazing in-laws ever. They have always been there and helped us out whenever we needed. I am so blessed.
But all of this sadness soon turned into happiness when I realized that another family will start making memories in this beautiful house that we called our home.

So, this is what I have been doing all week.......searching, searching, searching. driving around looking at areas and schools, and how far away it is from law school. talking to realtors, checking my email evey hour to see more listings. Going to every single property search website you've ever imagined.

I'm so very tired. We are in lingo right now and it makes me a little uncomfortable!! So there you have it. this is why I haven't posted or commented on anyone's blog! Hopefully we will find a house in a few weeks and once we get all settled in, I can breathe a little better...and can blog about my new house:)