The offer is here!!!!!!!!
I just got the offer on the house in my e-mail. It's a good offer too. So now we get together with our realtor tomorrow and sign and get this whole process underway!!! Tomorrow night we are headed in to town to look at a couple of RV's. We found one we really like. Well, we've had a couple picked out but this one is a 2004 and I have some big plans for it. :)
God truly is amazing. We've been waiting so long for this to happen. Seeing his timing is beautiful. If he had allowed it to sell sooner we wouldn't have met our new friends who want to help in the ministry Zach wants to start. We wouldn't have lowered our wants in the RV and would have spent way too much on it.
The girl wants to close on it November 3. That is just over a month away!!!!! We need to get really busy selling off some stuff. :) I am in such a daze right now. I am going to be making our last mortgage payment tomorrow. We've waited so long for this, now I am terrified. :) There is so much to do.
We will keep praying that everything goes smoothly for the rest of the process. I'm sure there will be some more nail biting moments, but I'm grateful for this breath of relief we have now.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
BIG STEPS!!!!!!!
It's been about a month since I posted anything. Sorry.
Let me see....we bought the truck to pull the fifth wheel with. It's a 1995 Dodge 3500 Duely. It is HUGE!!!!! It's an old work truck, but Zach has been working on the interior and a little on the exterior. It is looking so much better than when we first bought it. He seems to like it (it's no Mustang though).
I'm sitting here typing this as I wait for our realtor to call with an offer on our house. :) A girl (she has to be around my age, so she is a girl still) came and looked at it on Friday and she liked it. Then she came back on Saturday and looked at it again. She was going to put an offer on our house or a town house in on Saturday, but she wanted to talk to her bank one more time before she did. Her realtor called ours on Saturday though and told her that we would be getting an offer on our house today!!!!! :) It's so exciting. It's been on the market for 14 months. We are just praying that everything goes smoothly with the rest of the sale.
So now we need to get rid of more stuff. So much more to get rid of. As soon as we get a timeline of when she wants to take possession of the house, we can start selling the big stuff, like the TV and stand, washer and dryer, beds, couch, chair, dressers, stools and my desk. That's about all the big stuff we have left.
We started a new church in PSJ and love it. We miss our old church and friends there, but the new church is so much closer to our house that I don't dread heading to church.
God is so amazing. We've been to this new church 4 times. Yesterday there was a new man there. He and his wife are moving here from Texas to work in ministry. The church asked for volunteers to help him unload his moving truck, so Zach and I went to help (he only lives about 3 minutes away), afterwards we were talking with him and the pastor and Zach mentioned a ministry he wanted to do which is car maintenance for the elderly and people who don't have the money to do it themselves. After we were done moving, I invited the new guy to come eat dinner with us (his wife is still in Texas). While we were eating dinner he asked Zach more about the car ministry (that is one of the ministries God had laid on his to do when he got here, he just didn't know how get it going) and offered to pay for the supplies to do this ministry. What a blessing!!!!!!!
He also told us he owns some more property that has a carport on it made to park an RV under. It has electrical hookups, but he's not sure if it has water and sewer hookups on it. He said that if it does we can park our RV there. It's so beautiful to sit back and see how God is working this. He's the conductor to a beautiful orchestra that is our lives serving him.
Until next time.......
Let me see....we bought the truck to pull the fifth wheel with. It's a 1995 Dodge 3500 Duely. It is HUGE!!!!! It's an old work truck, but Zach has been working on the interior and a little on the exterior. It is looking so much better than when we first bought it. He seems to like it (it's no Mustang though).
I'm sitting here typing this as I wait for our realtor to call with an offer on our house. :) A girl (she has to be around my age, so she is a girl still) came and looked at it on Friday and she liked it. Then she came back on Saturday and looked at it again. She was going to put an offer on our house or a town house in on Saturday, but she wanted to talk to her bank one more time before she did. Her realtor called ours on Saturday though and told her that we would be getting an offer on our house today!!!!! :) It's so exciting. It's been on the market for 14 months. We are just praying that everything goes smoothly with the rest of the sale.
So now we need to get rid of more stuff. So much more to get rid of. As soon as we get a timeline of when she wants to take possession of the house, we can start selling the big stuff, like the TV and stand, washer and dryer, beds, couch, chair, dressers, stools and my desk. That's about all the big stuff we have left.
We started a new church in PSJ and love it. We miss our old church and friends there, but the new church is so much closer to our house that I don't dread heading to church.
God is so amazing. We've been to this new church 4 times. Yesterday there was a new man there. He and his wife are moving here from Texas to work in ministry. The church asked for volunteers to help him unload his moving truck, so Zach and I went to help (he only lives about 3 minutes away), afterwards we were talking with him and the pastor and Zach mentioned a ministry he wanted to do which is car maintenance for the elderly and people who don't have the money to do it themselves. After we were done moving, I invited the new guy to come eat dinner with us (his wife is still in Texas). While we were eating dinner he asked Zach more about the car ministry (that is one of the ministries God had laid on his to do when he got here, he just didn't know how get it going) and offered to pay for the supplies to do this ministry. What a blessing!!!!!!!
He also told us he owns some more property that has a carport on it made to park an RV under. It has electrical hookups, but he's not sure if it has water and sewer hookups on it. He said that if it does we can park our RV there. It's so beautiful to sit back and see how God is working this. He's the conductor to a beautiful orchestra that is our lives serving him.
Until next time.......
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Ideas
Quick question. Do you know what happens when you sell your shower curtain before your house??? You have to go and buy a new one. Yep, we are selling everything and a lady asked about our downstairs bathroom stuff, then she bought it all. Well now we have a very serious lead coming to look at the house this weekend and we had to go and buy a new shower curtain for downstairs. Not one of my better ideas.
Zach had yesterday off and we moved the desk from the living room down to Gavin's room. It's now considered the office for the time being. So I am sitting with my laptop on the floor of my living room connected to all the stupid wires I need to use the internet. Yes I know that we could make it wireless, but that involves spending money on a piece of equipment that we would only use for another couple of months. I don't see how that's a good idea. So I will just sit on the floor for the next few months. That's not really a good idea either, but it's free.
I'm lost when it comes to spending my days now that Autumn is back in school. Friday I know that I am cleaning like a crazy lady again. The lady who's coming to look at the house really likes it. She has waited a whole month to and is driving two hours to see it. I want the house to look it's best so when she sees it she will want it even more. Our microwave is still at the repair shop, but we will just explain that when it gets fixed it will be back in it's position.
We are pretty sure we found a truck. It's a crappy looking work truck, but it runs great and is really cheap. I think we're going to get it this week and then Zach is heading to the junk yard to get seats and a headliner for it. It is cosmetically in rough shape, but with some love I think it will be great for us.
Still moving forward on the adventure, just a lot slower than I want to be. It's discouraging sometimes, but I know we will get there.
Zach had yesterday off and we moved the desk from the living room down to Gavin's room. It's now considered the office for the time being. So I am sitting with my laptop on the floor of my living room connected to all the stupid wires I need to use the internet. Yes I know that we could make it wireless, but that involves spending money on a piece of equipment that we would only use for another couple of months. I don't see how that's a good idea. So I will just sit on the floor for the next few months. That's not really a good idea either, but it's free.
I'm lost when it comes to spending my days now that Autumn is back in school. Friday I know that I am cleaning like a crazy lady again. The lady who's coming to look at the house really likes it. She has waited a whole month to and is driving two hours to see it. I want the house to look it's best so when she sees it she will want it even more. Our microwave is still at the repair shop, but we will just explain that when it gets fixed it will be back in it's position.
We are pretty sure we found a truck. It's a crappy looking work truck, but it runs great and is really cheap. I think we're going to get it this week and then Zach is heading to the junk yard to get seats and a headliner for it. It is cosmetically in rough shape, but with some love I think it will be great for us.
Still moving forward on the adventure, just a lot slower than I want to be. It's discouraging sometimes, but I know we will get there.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Day 24
Good morning friends. Today is day 24 of our adventure. It's not been very adventerous thus far. Actually it's been rather boring. But we are supposed to have someone come look at the house this week/weekend. AND she is extremely interested in it. So we will keep praying that this is the one we have been waiting for. :)
Zach has had a few bites on the Mustang, but none that want to pay for it. They all want it for $1000 or more under what we are asking, and we are even asking under blue book to start with. Helpful hint: if someone is selling a car and it's already priced low, DO NOT be surprised if you offer $1000 or more under what they are asking and they tell you not a chance. There is a lady coming to look at it Tuesday. And we have an offer of trading with a guy for his truck. Zach is going to pursue the latter of the two today.
We went to the church garage sale on Saturday. That went really well. We got rid of 75% of the junk we took. I wasn't there for most of it, I spent my Saturday sitting in the walk-in clinic for a medical issue. But Zach and Autumn had a great time selling all kinds of stuff. Our Christmas tree and ornaments, our dishes, a bunch of random things. It was good. We made decent money too. I don't know if we'll be able to have on this Saturday, depends on when the lady wants to see the house.
We have people lined up that want to buy our dressers and our futon. That is awesome. As soon as we have an accepted offer on the house we are putting our tv, the tv stand, counter stools, our beds, Autumn's dresser and her toy box all up for sale too. Right now I am more than willing to part with the desk, chair and hampers.
So 24 days in and even though it seems like we haven't accomplished a lot, I know we have done as much as we can do until the house sells. I just wish this stuff could happen sooooo much faster, but all in God's time.
Zach has had a few bites on the Mustang, but none that want to pay for it. They all want it for $1000 or more under what we are asking, and we are even asking under blue book to start with. Helpful hint: if someone is selling a car and it's already priced low, DO NOT be surprised if you offer $1000 or more under what they are asking and they tell you not a chance. There is a lady coming to look at it Tuesday. And we have an offer of trading with a guy for his truck. Zach is going to pursue the latter of the two today.
We went to the church garage sale on Saturday. That went really well. We got rid of 75% of the junk we took. I wasn't there for most of it, I spent my Saturday sitting in the walk-in clinic for a medical issue. But Zach and Autumn had a great time selling all kinds of stuff. Our Christmas tree and ornaments, our dishes, a bunch of random things. It was good. We made decent money too. I don't know if we'll be able to have on this Saturday, depends on when the lady wants to see the house.
We have people lined up that want to buy our dressers and our futon. That is awesome. As soon as we have an accepted offer on the house we are putting our tv, the tv stand, counter stools, our beds, Autumn's dresser and her toy box all up for sale too. Right now I am more than willing to part with the desk, chair and hampers.
So 24 days in and even though it seems like we haven't accomplished a lot, I know we have done as much as we can do until the house sells. I just wish this stuff could happen sooooo much faster, but all in God's time.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Nothing New
It's been a little over a week since I posted anything. There is a very good reason for that. Nothing has happened. Absolutely nothing.
Well, that's not entirely true. We did have a realtor call and tell us she wanted to show our house. She called on a Sunday night and wanted to show it Monday afternoon. This wasn't just any realtor, it was the first realtor we listed the house with. She knew everything about our house and lot. She knows how big it is and everything. So I spent all day last Monday cleaning and cleaning and cleaning some more. 8 hours of cleaning. Cleaning everything that you don't normally pay attention to, but since someone was looking at the house I wanted to make sure it was perfect.
So I finally get done and they show up. Autumn and I are leaving so that they can look at the house without us here and as we walk outside the realtor tells me not to leave because our house isn't going to work for them anyway. They need to park an RV on the lot, and ours isn't wide enough for that. SO WHY DID YOU EVEN SUGGEST MY HOUSE!?!?!?!?! I was just slightly irritated with her. They looked at it anyway and then left.
That's what has happened in the last week. In a whole week that is it. Sad huh??? We did go to Tallahassee Saturday. We couldn't have a garage sale because it rained so we headed up to the co-op. It's about 2 1/2 hours away, but it's the closest place for me to get raw nuts. It was a nice trip and while we were there we stopped by Camping World and looked at their RV's. We found one we really like, it's used though so I'm not sure it's going to be there when the house sells. But the lady that showed us the RV's was really nice and it was fun to look at some more.
We still have another lady really interested in the house. She is supposed to come look at it about the 29. There is another lady that likes it too. She's moving in the fall, so that's soon. We are just holding on and letting God give us the right person.
Zach has been looking for a truck to pull the RV with. He has his car up for sale and is willing to trade for a truck. We are looking for a diesel 2500 or 3500. A guy called last night and wanted to trade for his Ram 2500, but it's worth about $3000 less than the Mustang and that's not gonna happen, it's not even a diesel.
So we are doing a few things, there just isn't much to do until the house actually sells. We are going to the church garage sale Saturday and hopefully selling a lot of what we have left. It's so weird to want to be rid of things. I even stop and think before I buy something now. I ask myself if I really need it and will it fit in the RV or is it just something else I'm going to have to get rid of. I can honestly say that since we started this I have only bought food and vitamins.
So hopefully some new stuff will happen and I will have some more interesting to write about. Just keep praying that God sends us the right person to buy the house (and if you could mention that we have learned patience and that we will consult with him before we make our decisions from now on that would be awesome too). Until next time......
Well, that's not entirely true. We did have a realtor call and tell us she wanted to show our house. She called on a Sunday night and wanted to show it Monday afternoon. This wasn't just any realtor, it was the first realtor we listed the house with. She knew everything about our house and lot. She knows how big it is and everything. So I spent all day last Monday cleaning and cleaning and cleaning some more. 8 hours of cleaning. Cleaning everything that you don't normally pay attention to, but since someone was looking at the house I wanted to make sure it was perfect.
So I finally get done and they show up. Autumn and I are leaving so that they can look at the house without us here and as we walk outside the realtor tells me not to leave because our house isn't going to work for them anyway. They need to park an RV on the lot, and ours isn't wide enough for that. SO WHY DID YOU EVEN SUGGEST MY HOUSE!?!?!?!?! I was just slightly irritated with her. They looked at it anyway and then left.
That's what has happened in the last week. In a whole week that is it. Sad huh??? We did go to Tallahassee Saturday. We couldn't have a garage sale because it rained so we headed up to the co-op. It's about 2 1/2 hours away, but it's the closest place for me to get raw nuts. It was a nice trip and while we were there we stopped by Camping World and looked at their RV's. We found one we really like, it's used though so I'm not sure it's going to be there when the house sells. But the lady that showed us the RV's was really nice and it was fun to look at some more.
We still have another lady really interested in the house. She is supposed to come look at it about the 29. There is another lady that likes it too. She's moving in the fall, so that's soon. We are just holding on and letting God give us the right person.
Zach has been looking for a truck to pull the RV with. He has his car up for sale and is willing to trade for a truck. We are looking for a diesel 2500 or 3500. A guy called last night and wanted to trade for his Ram 2500, but it's worth about $3000 less than the Mustang and that's not gonna happen, it's not even a diesel.
So we are doing a few things, there just isn't much to do until the house actually sells. We are going to the church garage sale Saturday and hopefully selling a lot of what we have left. It's so weird to want to be rid of things. I even stop and think before I buy something now. I ask myself if I really need it and will it fit in the RV or is it just something else I'm going to have to get rid of. I can honestly say that since we started this I have only bought food and vitamins.
So hopefully some new stuff will happen and I will have some more interesting to write about. Just keep praying that God sends us the right person to buy the house (and if you could mention that we have learned patience and that we will consult with him before we make our decisions from now on that would be awesome too). Until next time......
Monday, August 10, 2009
Recipes and Pictures
Goodmor (trip, ouch....stupid thing). Let's try that again, I forgot to put my soapbox away after my last post and stubbed my toe on it. Goodmorning. I hope you are all doing well today. Yesterday was Sunday. We didn't do anything to get ready for our adventure.
We did go to church and had a wonderful guest speaker. Then we went and had some lunch and Zach got a haircut. Then it was home for a nap. That was soooo wonderful. Then before we knew it it was time to go back to town for church last night, we didn't make it. We ended up staying home and hanging out as a family. Zach went back to work today and that was our last time to just be us before today. It was nice.
At our sale on Saturday we had a very nice lady interested in one of our twin beds. She called this morning and wants to pick it up tomorrow. That's good because it means that we will be able to move my desk down to Gavin's room and turn it into an office. Right now our living room is really crowded having my overly large desk in here.
She also said that she is bringing a friend and maybe her mom with her and they want to look and see whatever else we have for sale and might buy some more stuff. Let's hope that they want to buy a house too. ;)
Today I'm going to work on copying recipes onto the computer into the right format. I want all of my recipes to match, then I'm going to print them and put them into plastic sleeves and orgainze them according to what kind of recipe it is (raw, gfcf, low-carb, etc....).
I also need to get pictures organized. Autumn has therapy today, so I'm not going to have all day to work on this stuff. Hopefully I can get a good amount done before we leave. Wish me luck. :)
We did go to church and had a wonderful guest speaker. Then we went and had some lunch and Zach got a haircut. Then it was home for a nap. That was soooo wonderful. Then before we knew it it was time to go back to town for church last night, we didn't make it. We ended up staying home and hanging out as a family. Zach went back to work today and that was our last time to just be us before today. It was nice.
At our sale on Saturday we had a very nice lady interested in one of our twin beds. She called this morning and wants to pick it up tomorrow. That's good because it means that we will be able to move my desk down to Gavin's room and turn it into an office. Right now our living room is really crowded having my overly large desk in here.
She also said that she is bringing a friend and maybe her mom with her and they want to look and see whatever else we have for sale and might buy some more stuff. Let's hope that they want to buy a house too. ;)
Today I'm going to work on copying recipes onto the computer into the right format. I want all of my recipes to match, then I'm going to print them and put them into plastic sleeves and orgainze them according to what kind of recipe it is (raw, gfcf, low-carb, etc....).
I also need to get pictures organized. Autumn has therapy today, so I'm not going to have all day to work on this stuff. Hopefully I can get a good amount done before we leave. Wish me luck. :)
Saturday, August 8, 2009
The First Garage Sale
Today was our first garage sale for our adventure. We made a little over $200. That is just great because we didn't have anything important out there. It was all junk. So a great big thank you to all the people who decided that they needed some of our JUNK!!!!!!! Maybe next week we will have some more important items out there.
Totally off subject here, but am I the last person in the world that has serious issues with what is aired on TV???? Yesterday we were watching Spongebob and a commercial with Joan Rivers came on during it and she had a very potty mouth and was talking about things that are not child appropriate. Then, just now we were watching i-carly and a preview for Glenn Martin DDS came on and it had a clown smoking, a knife in a guys eye with blood spurting out. That was just what we saw before we got the channel changed. We've only had cable three weeks, but I'm about to get rid of it altogether already. This is just absolutely ridiculous.
Ok, off my soapbox now. Now I'm going to go and hang out on the floor with my Autumn Bottom. She is playing with ponies and it looks really fun. :)
Totally off subject here, but am I the last person in the world that has serious issues with what is aired on TV???? Yesterday we were watching Spongebob and a commercial with Joan Rivers came on during it and she had a very potty mouth and was talking about things that are not child appropriate. Then, just now we were watching i-carly and a preview for Glenn Martin DDS came on and it had a clown smoking, a knife in a guys eye with blood spurting out. That was just what we saw before we got the channel changed. We've only had cable three weeks, but I'm about to get rid of it altogether already. This is just absolutely ridiculous.
Ok, off my soapbox now. Now I'm going to go and hang out on the floor with my Autumn Bottom. She is playing with ponies and it looks really fun. :)
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