He allowed our house to be sold in THREE WEEKS flat! We sold it this past Saturday . . . the same day we got the two new pictures of our kids. Talk about God's faithfulness! I wanted to wait until the "sale pending" sign was in our yard to blog about our house selling, but I don't know when that will be and I couldn't wait any longer to share the news!
Seriously, who but God could do all of this:
- take two people who were dead set on staying in their house and change their minds about moving . . . a few months before we adopt three kids!
- provide a house that is perfectly suited for our new, growing family IN our neighborhood, IN our price range when we weren't even looking
- provide the money we need to make the purchase of a house possible through generous people and our church the SAME week this house came on the market
- cause NOT ONE PERSON to even look at the house we want to buy in the three weeks we had a contingent offer on it (anyone could have made an offer on it and bought it and we wouldn't have been able to buy it) . . . This is amazing to me!
- Allow our house to sell after only three weeks on the market (and ten showings) . . . again, AMAZING!
"How great are your works, LORD, how profound your thoughts!" (Psalm 92:5)
We close on our house on April 29th, which is a little later than we were hoping, but we'll take it and make it work. At this point, it seems our kids won't be here until June or so.
Here is our new house: 630 Jewel Drive
It is not much to look at from front (especially when you don't like brown, like me!). BUT this house has TWICE as much space on the main level as our current house (there is a big family room on the back of the house). It has a full basement that is completely gutted so our kids can ride trikes and bikes and jump rope and play basketball now and then we can finish it in the future. IT HAS A GARAGE! (Our current house does not have a garage.) IT HAS A DISHWASHER (something else our current house does not have!). It has a great back yard. It has an updated kitchen with all new appliances, an updated bathroom (that is 2-3 times the size of our current bathroom) with all new fixtures/tub/vanity, all new light fixtures throughout the house, new door knobs and two new sets of sliding glass doors (off the kitchen and off the family room). Besides painting, there is very little we have to do the house to enjoy living in it.
All of this and we weren't even looking! We so don't deserve this.
The house does have dark brown trim throughout and the kitchen was all updated in browns (did I mention I do not like brown?). But, since everything else about the house was so great for our family, I got over the brown quickly and decided it will be a good challenge for my decorating skills.
Let the packing begin!
