who's movin'? WE'RE MOVIN'!!!

YaY!!! we (FINALLY) sold the house! we put it back on the market after taking it off for a month or so, and 2 days later, it SOLD! we are so happy, shocked, elated, stressed, un-believing, and STOKED!!! sooo...it went on the market tuesday, and by thursday we had an offer! it's a couple from colorado, and they immediately fell in love with our home. i'm soooo glad it'll be going to a couple that i think will love it as much as we have the last 6+ years.

as hard as it'll be for me to leave, knowing all the memories we made here, all the "firsts" our kids accomplished here, (potty training, skipping, reading, writing, riding their bikes without training wheels, homeschooling, etc), all the holidays, the weekly family fun nights, the games, puzzles, laughter and tears. i'm excited to get our new house built, and start making memories there...but, it's gonna be hard for me to go. to shut the door one last time and know i'll never walk through it again. know i'll never hear the pitter patter of the kids' feet running to greet me at the door of the only home they've ever known. it saddens me just a little. each of these rooms hold so many memories. there's not an inch of space that doesn't have a special moment etched into it. this is the place j and i have lived the longest since we've been married. it seems like yesterday we were looking at it, and wondering how on earth we'd ever fill it up and make it not look empty. now we're stuffing things in nooks and crannies, because there's not enough room. all of these things said, this has been a great house to us. it's sheltered us from some of life's biggest storms, it's been where we've recieved dreaded phone calls, it's been our refuge, it holds our secrets. and while i KNOW that our true refuge is in Jesus, and our true shelter is in Him as well, this house has been where we run to to get away from the nastyness of the world, and be together. it's our "safe-zone" where the people inside of it love us unconditionally, and faithfully. i love this house. i've outgrown this house. i'll miss this house. (especially when i'm cleaning the new one thats twice the size of this one)...it's a great house, and i can only hope that the couple moving into it thinks of it the way we have, and loves it as much as we do.

we'll be living at the lake for a few months, (how perfectly planned was the completion of the lakehouse)???, till we can get the well and septic dug and the barn built at the land, then we'll move the 5th wheel over there, and stay there till the house is finished. i'm excited, really. truly. i can't wait to pick out wall color, stone, cabinets, floors, etc. i look forward to being deeply involved in the entire process. and, i look forward to completion. ;) j is hoping by the first of summer to be in and settled. that's hard for me to wrap my brain around, since it took MUCH longer than we anticipated to get this house sold...but it sure sounds good!

oh, and one last detail of the sale...we have to be out in 11 days. yes, 11. i see chaos comin' my way...;)