A sneak Peak

Our original plan was for me and the kids to stay until we sold the house and then we would move to Texas.

I am telling you if I could will God to make our house sell with the amount of prayer over the last five months we would have sold this house five times.

But I know he has a plan and I know it is better than anything I can will through sheer force of power.

I still don't know what that plan is but I know He has a plan. I know that Chris's apartment is up December 13 and has to be out by then. I know that we looked at houses. The first one that seemed right just plain did not work out.

The second one we were fully ready to walk away from when things just didn't seem right. But then the owners came back with the right offer and everything we asked for.

We had already set up a meeting with a property management company that would give us another option to rent or sell our home which ever came first. That meeting went great and after weighing the pros and cons we are very excited about the prospect of renting.

So we have 15 days left and if our house sells then that is great. If not it goes up for rent.

Either way, we have decided to put our family back together in one place where it should be and where we all desperately want it to be.

Hence leading to your sneak peak. As you will see, my excitement might come through just a tad.

I told Chris from the beginning that I am completely comfortable with him buying a house without me. So I have not yet seen it in person.

All our requirements except for one have been met.
Kitchen open to the family room and a bar for the kids to sit at with enough room in our kitchen for our square table.

Backyard that is big enough to add a pool to in the future.
Door leading to the garage from the back of the house for the dogs.
A "three car tandem" garage. In otherwards it is a two car garage but one side goes back so far that you can fit three cars in it! So that means that we have enough room to turn the back into a full time portrait studio!
An actual dining room. At this point it may be awhile before we actually have a dining room table to put in there! Plus across from the dining room is a full study with doors.
An entertainment room upstairs with theatre seating already built in with enough extra room for the kids large play things.
A very open house, this is the entrance with the high ceilings.
Looking in through the front door, you see the stairs on the right, past that is the kitchen on the right and the master bedroom on the left.
And the kitchen...oooohhhh the kitchen. Look! I have a pantry. Stockpiling here I come! And I have stainless steal appliances with a built in microwave and Chris says that it is twice the size of our current kitchen. Plus I have an island now!

Plus for our guests, upstairs there is a guest room with their own full bath. And the kids have a jack and jill bath and each have their own sink area and share a shower in between.

All in all we have four bedrooms and 3 1/2 baths and it is about 3100 sq. feet.

Yes, I am just a little excited.