SOLD

This summer Camden and I began talking about selling our house.   Like many other American families, this economy has hit us hard and we just felt that this might be something we should consider. It was a very tough decision to make.  This is a great house and it's the only house our daughter has known as home, but we both felt it was something that needed to be done.  We still had the sign from when we sold our other house just 4 1/2 years ago.  We dusted it off, made some new flyers and prayed a simple prayer together, "God if it is your will that our house sell, send a buyer.  If it is not your will, please send provision."  We placed the sign in our yard.

It became apparent pretty quickly that our instinct was right and that God's will was for us to sell our home.  It just happened so fast and so easily.  Within a week we had gone through 50 flyers that had been placed in a box on our For Sale By Owner sign.  Within 10 days we had a couple who had come to see the home 4 times and was getting ready to write an offer but backed out at the last minute.  We had an open house for two hours one Sunday, 20 people show up.  By week 3 we had a contract on our house from a young couple who had already sold their house and was ready to buy now.  

All of this by only putting a sign in our front yard.  We never advertised other than that sign we had prayed over together a few weeks before.

We do not have another house.  For the time being we will be selling a lot of our furniture, putting the rest in a POD and moving in to my parents upstairs.  

I guess for most people this would be stressful and some days it has been but neither one of us doubts that this was supposed to be. 

 We are thankful that my parents care so much about us.  They have stepped up to help in any way they can and are just fine having us as house guests.   Madison & Sophie are very close to them and both are just fine living there.  Sophie just wants to make sure that her "stuff" will be going with her.  It will.  Mamoo already has her an area set up just for her toys and has redone a room with new paint and carpet for Madison.  

As for our future plans....we don't have any yet but we trust God to lead us where he wants us to go.  We believe that he has a plan and it will happen at the exact time he chooses.  For now we are packing, purging and selling, knowing that our future is in his hands.