Thanks For Asking

After my last blog post, my dear friend, Clancy, asked, "Are you ok with all of it?" It wasn't until I read her comment that I realized that I completely left my thoughts/feelings out of that blog post, and I'm not sure why.


Maybe it's easier to share news like that without letting emotion get involved. Or maybe, I haven't let myself think about it enough to really know what to say. Or maybe I'm not sure how to put my thought into words.


Of course the decision to sell our house didn't come easily. There was much discussion between about it in our house for months. So while this may come as a shock to some of you, it's not like we didn't see it coming. It was something we knew might be a possibility for a while now. Because of that, the decision was a little easier to make. In fact, making the decision to list our house for sale didn't make me as sad as I thought it would, in some ways, making that decision came as a relief. Like I said, we knew it might be a possibility for a while. So even though this was a house with a hand picked floor-plan and custom interior features, I never really let myself get attached to it. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for the kids.


That's the part that's been hard for me. The kids love it here, especially Jace. (But it isn't the house they're attached to, it's the neighborhood.) He has made so many friends here and loves having most of them close by. He also really loves his teacher and has done really well in kindergarten. I hate to take him away from all of that. Just days after making the decision to sell, I was driving somewhere with the kids in the car and Jace was talking happily about how much fun he had playing with his friend earlier that day. We hadn't told the kids our decision at this point, and thinking about how sad it would make him to leave his friends almost made me start to cry. And maybe if I hadn't been driving at the time, I would have.


Surprisingly, that was the most emotional I've been about all of this so far. But I think that could change when it's actually time to move. For now, a decision has been made, and that's the easy part. I'm sure this won't really feel real until the time comes to move. For now, I kind of have a "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it" mindset. I can't think about it all at once. We don't know when we will actually move, or any of the specifics about it, it's too much to consider. There are too many possibilities and scenarios for me to run through them all right now. It doesn't make sense for me to concern myself with that and worry about what may or may not happen.

I've been trying to stay positive about this and looking on the bright side. For example, at least this made me really clean my house and post pictures of it. That's something I've been meaning to do since we moved in. So, until it's time to move, I'm going to enjoy being here.

For Sale

We just listed our house for sale. I might as well get this out in the open for anyone out there who doesn't know yet. (Apparently some news travels fast.)

You might be wondering why we're selling our house after being here for only six months. It's because we haven't been able to refinance our construction loan into a traditional mortgage. We moved in on the construction loan with plans to get our mortgage taken care of shortly after moving. But things have not worked out in a way that has made that possible.

During the time we built our house, the mortgage industry was on a steady decline. A mortgage that we could have easily obtained at the time we started the building process is now impossible to obtain. Really impossible, as in, certain loan programs don't even exist anymore.

And it initially looked like we would have plenty of time to handle that since the bank we were with was allowing us to make payments on the construction loan until we could get a traditional home loan. But then, that bank went under. It was bought out by another bank who is not being as easy to work with. We are still trying to come up with an arrangement that the bank would be happy with, but in the meantime, we decided we should try and sell our house.

Here are a few pictures if anyone out there is interested.

Master Bedroom

Master Bath (well, part of it anyway. A wide-angle lens would have been really helpful on this one)

Bedroom

Bathroom

Front Entry

Living Room

Dining Room

Kitchen

Good shot of living room, dining room and kitchen

Built-in desk area in upstairs hallway

Guest Bathroom

Laundry Room

Other areas that are not pictured include two additional bedrooms, a guest room and a large mudroom,as well as a half-bath. There is also a formal living room just off of the front entry. The house has a full, unfinished basement, it sits on a 0.5 acre corner lot and has garage space for 4 cars.