for sale.

Our house is for sale.  Our.house.is.for.sale.  Our house is for sale.  No matter how I say it, it's still hard for me to believe!  I came home from work and this sign was in our front yard, and it hit me.  Our house is for sale.  

So here's the scoop. It's been up in the air over the past year-ish whether or not we would be in this area long term.  But as of early January, some doors closed and other doors opened and Brandon got a full time position approved at the church, so we are thankful to now feel like we can settle in this area.  We then knew that we needed to make a decision about our house...either refinance our current house, or sell our house and buy a new one (because have you seen interest rates these days?  Amazing.)  If we refinanced our current house, it would commit us to staying here for a few years.  We knew that wasn't the right decision for us, because as much as I love our house, it's not the place we want to be when Lucas starts school.  And if this is the time we could get a bigger house in a better school district for a lot less money than ever will be possible, then now's the time to do it.  So we consulted a realtor friend (yes, Santa is our realtor!) and began to get our house ready to put on the market and look at potential houses to buy.   

And we found a house we love.  And we put an offer in on it.  And they accepted it so now we're under contract.  And oh my gosh, that happened fast, now we need to sell our house! (See why I'm behind on blogging?  We have been a little busy.) 

As exciting and scary and bittersweet as this whole process of selling our house is, I look back over the past 4 years in this house and smile.  This was a good first house.  We have made it a home.  We have made neighbor friends.  We have said goodbye to some neighbor friends.  We have painted, built, and fixed things in this house.  We have had lots of laughs in this house.  We have had some hard times in this house.  We have grown in our marriage in this house.  We brought our first dog home to this house.  We found out we were pregnant in this house.  We watched my pregnant belly grow in this house.  We labored into the wee hours of the morning in this house.  We brought our first baby home to this house.  We rocked our new baby during all hours of the night in this house. We have lived and grown as a family of 3 in this house. And now it's time to move on.

So let's sell a house!