In January Chris and I said that we both felt “bored”. Not super engaged in work or hobbies. We just felt stagnant. We started thinking about flipping a house,
or starting some new adventure together.
. . Well, we for sure got the adventure, and being
bored sounds amazing!
At some point while looking for an investment property, I
got the overwhelming feeling that we needed to move. Like sick to my stomach had to happen kind of
feeling. Now I’ve heard people bare
their testimonies and say that they were led to a specific place, and I always
thought that it was sort of odd… but now I am one of those people! I really didn’t want to sell our home. Chris built that house. We had put a lot of time into making it
perfect for our family. My best friend
lived next door. It had a neighborhood
pool, and we were comfortable. But I
couldn’t change that ache, we had to move.
Our house sold quickly.
Luckily they gave us nearly 3 months to close. Which was good, because we needed a solid
plan. We toured house after house, city
after city. Looked at lots. Looked at
building. Looked at renovating. Looked
at downsizing. And in the end, really
wished we didn’t have to move.
I seriously felt like we were in a freefall for months. All I did was scour the MLS looking for
homes. Then I would slowly pack our
house, and finish it off with working on our building plans. The struggle to figure out the next step was
exhausting. We had picked a city that
we were really happy with. There was a
lot that we liked, but it had it’s set backs too. It was on a steep hill-no bikes for the
kids. It needed a lot of
retention=expensive. Although we felt so
good about this new location, everything with the construction was going SO
slow, and we hadn’t even broke ground!
Last week was go time.
We had to be out of our existing house by Saturday. We were supposed to close on the land
purchase in Mt. Green on the following Monday.
So on top of packing up our whole lives, we decided to tour houses one last
time. The tour was a giant flop. We are really picky and honestly there is
just not a lot of inventory on the market.
It was incredibly frustrating.
I was super emotional all week. All of our memories as a family happened
while living in that house. I felt like
we were dying. Finally in desperation I
prayed, “Heavenly Father, I’m trying to do what you prompted me to do, but I
don’t think that I can do this. I need
for you to help me through this.”
Immediately after that I started thinking about how if we would have
just moved into the first home that we really liked, we could have been settled
and living there for 3 months already.
And my answer came as plain as day, “where is the adventure in
that?” I thought it was such a funny answer! But so true!
It really helped me to finish packing up, and keep trying to figure out
what in the world we were supposed to be doing.
At 9 o’clock at night, on the Thursday before moving
day I got out my phone to check any new
listings in Mountain Green. Something
new had come on the market in the 2 hours since I had last looked. I swiped through 4 pictures and ran upstairs
to talk to Chris. “It’s an emergency! We
need to buy this house.” He laughed and
grabbed my phone. In under three minutes
we decided to offer full price, without even seeing the house in person. Our realtor wrote up the offer and got it
over before 10.
The next day we went up to see the home. They had 11 showing that day and it was
swarming with people. The house was even
more amazing in person… like everything we could ever want x10. We were on pins and needles waiting to hear
if they were going to accept our offer.
In one day on the market they generated 6 offers! The realtor of the home informed us that the
owner wasn’t just concerned about price (which is a good thing, because we
couldn’t have offered any more), but that he needed speed. How quickly could we close? Um… we had to move out the next day… so
really fast! It was a dreadful day and a half waiting for them to
get back to us. But finally, right after
we had completely moved, the call came that we got the house! We were seriously ridiculously excited. We are going to move in 2 weeks, which seems
insane after all of that floundering for months. Everything had to work out exactly like it
did for us to be led here. If we wouldn’t
have struggled through building plans, examining schools in the area, looking
at existing homes, we wouldn’t have been ready for this. I know that this is where we are meant to
be. I cannot wait for our new
adventures, and new life, in our new house!
