Big Life Changes
Well, we did it.
It's been a crazy (to say the least) week, but it's all official now. We put an offer on a house in Douglassville, it was accepted, we cleaned and repaired our current home, and it's now on the market. In the blink of an eye, our world is changed completely. I had a vague idea on Friday the 15th when we went to look at houses that this was a possible outcome but it hardly registered just how huge this is. We went from casually looking to moving our whole lives 40 miles west to a new community and for all purposes a new world. All while being 6 months pregnant. So now the winter holds two of the biggest (and most stressful) changes a couple can endure: childbirth and moving. Both within weeks of each other (maybe days...).
I'm super excited though. We wouldn't have taken this on if we hadn't found a place that we both loved so much. It's gorgeous and everything we're looking for in a home, property, and neighborhood, even if it isn't exactly too close to our parents. But you know, all we can do is do what we can. You know the old adage, when life gives you lemons you make lemonade. Well, we're making lemonade and making the best damn lemonade we know how. And I think we're doing as good a job as anyone.
Lauryn's pretty nervous about selling our house as the market has certainly slowed in the past 6 months. But we cleaned this place and made sure everything looks nice; we priced it to sell, and I think it will. I am going to miss this place. For all the inconveniences of a townhouse it has ably served as our first real 'home' together and we've made it feel like it's our home. It's strange to think that our child will never know this as home. It will be that place that we lived in before you were born. Like the place my parents tell me about. Funny how that happens. I don't think there's any escape from turning into your parents at least a little bit.
And to think, just a few months ago I was in the darkest place I have ever known and now life has completely flipped to the most optimistic and brightest points imaginable. New home, new baby, business is going well, and a new world to explore.
I'm inching closer to prayer as well. Now if I only knew who I was praying to...
It's been a crazy (to say the least) week, but it's all official now. We put an offer on a house in Douglassville, it was accepted, we cleaned and repaired our current home, and it's now on the market. In the blink of an eye, our world is changed completely. I had a vague idea on Friday the 15th when we went to look at houses that this was a possible outcome but it hardly registered just how huge this is. We went from casually looking to moving our whole lives 40 miles west to a new community and for all purposes a new world. All while being 6 months pregnant. So now the winter holds two of the biggest (and most stressful) changes a couple can endure: childbirth and moving. Both within weeks of each other (maybe days...).
I'm super excited though. We wouldn't have taken this on if we hadn't found a place that we both loved so much. It's gorgeous and everything we're looking for in a home, property, and neighborhood, even if it isn't exactly too close to our parents. But you know, all we can do is do what we can. You know the old adage, when life gives you lemons you make lemonade. Well, we're making lemonade and making the best damn lemonade we know how. And I think we're doing as good a job as anyone.
Lauryn's pretty nervous about selling our house as the market has certainly slowed in the past 6 months. But we cleaned this place and made sure everything looks nice; we priced it to sell, and I think it will. I am going to miss this place. For all the inconveniences of a townhouse it has ably served as our first real 'home' together and we've made it feel like it's our home. It's strange to think that our child will never know this as home. It will be that place that we lived in before you were born. Like the place my parents tell me about. Funny how that happens. I don't think there's any escape from turning into your parents at least a little bit.
And to think, just a few months ago I was in the darkest place I have ever known and now life has completely flipped to the most optimistic and brightest points imaginable. New home, new baby, business is going well, and a new world to explore.
I'm inching closer to prayer as well. Now if I only knew who I was praying to...
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