Monday, June 17, 2013

Crazy Times

So Chet and I decided almost on a whim to move. We were talking one night before mutual and I told Chet that I wanted more land and less house. I wanted to be able to keep it clean without going insane. I LOVE my house, but it is hard with just a VERY open floor plan. I want my bedrooms seperate, so that I can gate them off when people come over (we have about 25 kids here ALL.THE.TIME, and I cannot keep them out of the bedrooms. There are a lot of little things like this that I want to change.) So I told Chet that I was going to start looking in an area right next to us. He suggested that we look out by our friends, in a completely different location. I thought about it, said yeah, help me put the kids in. I then drove around until I found a house that I was interested in. We looked with the agent the next day, and wanted it. So, we decided to get ours on the market. We told the agent about 3 weeks. On Monday I had this feeling that I should call the agent and find out some info about the house. We were NOT going to call until the house was on the market. Long story short, there was another offer over the weekend, and they were going to take it, but they were not happy about it. We got an offer in that day contingent upon the sale of ours, that was not even up yet! They took it! So in less than a week, we had our house show ready. It was wonderful. The kids were wonderful, everything went smooth, we were amazed. Then it sat. No showings. No showings. No showings. I was getting frustrated. We felt like it was exactly what we were supposed to be doing, and then we weren't even showing the dang thing! After 3 weeks, and one showing, I was frustrated. One night I prayed that I didn't know if this was the right thing for us. I asked Heavenly Father if we could just have a showing to know that we were going in the right direction, that we were doing what we were supposed to! And what happened the next day? SHOWING! Now we have had 4 in 5 days (and the only day it hasn't shown was the day we planned to go to the temple and leave our kids with our babysitter. It would have been near impossible to show it that day!). We are so blessed. I am just amazed at how much Heavenly Father cares about our small worries. I didn't even expect it to sell off that showing. I was just so happy and on cloud 9. There is no doubt in my mind that Heavenly Father answers my prayers. It seems that every day more and more I see Heavenly Fathers hand in EVERYTHING! It's crazy and awesome and amazing all at once! This has been the best experience with selling a house we have ever had. I am so relaxed and easy going and totally not stressed out like usual when selling a house. How can I be not stressed out while keeping a house SPOTLESS with 5 boys? I am way less stressed now than I have been since I had Colby. I love it!

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