We've had all of four showings of our house, y'all, four. In a month. Last weekend, I was feeling discouraged about being in limbo with the move. My girls were bored and I wanted to start school, but I also wanted to have a cute, fun space to do it in and had already packed up all my posters and extra school stuff. We got home on Sunday afternoon from house hunting and I went to the dollar store and spent $12 on school stuff. I waited for the girls to go to bed and decorated our playroom as our new schoolroom. I told Jeremy it would be Murphy's law that putting stuff on the walls again would make people come see our house.
Monday morning we started kindergarten (pics later) to mixed reviews. More on that at another time. At the same time we were schooling inside, landscapers were repairing our sprinkler system and prepping our yard for new sod and plants. Our landscaping had really gone rotten with the drought and our "we're raising children, not plants" care taking. The house had no curb appeal.
Tuesday morning started with the arrival of new sod and a forklift driving it around the backyard. Our friends came over to play, so I planned no school for the day. Around noon, as four little mouths were sitting down to lunch, the contractor showed up to install a new back door. This was another sticking point on selling the house--literally, the door was rotting in its frame and would stick about 6" open. So the next four hours were very hot as we had a huge, gaping hole in the kitchen wall.
With the major repairs done, pretty little plants in the front flower bed, and sprinklers running to beat the band, we called the realtor and told her to drop the price. Now is not the time to be greedy or proud. We've got to get this baby sold and get to where God has called us to go. We had a verbal offer that night.
We received the written contract yesterday and will finalize it today. Praise God!! We have a buyer!! It's the same family that made a crazy low offer two weeks ago, they were just slightly more rational this time around. We didn't even have to get ready for another showing. Thank you, God!
Of course that means our buying process is accelerated. We'll make a day trip Saturday to look at the last few houses on our list. Then we have a big decision to make. The buyers of our house want to close on September 22. If we want to avoid moving our stuff twice, we need to find a house and close on it a few days before. Thanks for your prayers that have brought a buyer. Please keep praying we'll find the house, the street, the neighborhood, the community where God is working and wants us to join Him.
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