We sold our house!  Ironically it closed only days after the first deal (which fell through) was supposed to close.  I’ve been marking rentals for months and realized as we neared closing that most the houses we had our eye on were no longer for rent.  I spent a week combing through every craigslist ad, calling people with vacant houses for sale and asked if they’d like to rent, and went for half a dozen drives.

Every lead ran into dead ends.  We prayed for God to work out the right place for us and apparently the right place is here.  Next spring we’ll give it another try.  The new owners live a few doors down and are friends of ours.  We’re blessed that they were willing to rent to us for the year.

So…that’s my anticlimactic ending to three years of having our house for sale off and on!

In spite of my protests, kicking, and screaming, when I was in the fifth grade my family moved from the Seattle area to southwest WA.  After renting for a few months my parents began house hunting.

Then we found IT.  The Tadema family dream house.  We called it Cherry Valley and when you stepped on the property you could almost forget that downtown was right down the road.  The house itself needed work, but my parents enjoy a project.  Us kids picked which rooms we wanted for ourselves and dreamed about how to make the quirks work for our family.  We were certain this was God’s will for us.  It was big, had climbing trees and property.  Anxious to get out of the rental that smelled as though the previous owner’s cat never learned how to use the litter box, we set our plans. Read the rest of this entry