Hesitant...

I am hesitant to say that our house is 'sold'. We have re-negotiated with our potential buyers after they had a little financing snafu. We have a signed and finalized offer. Still an acceptable agreement, but all is still pending inspections. So Tuesday is our whole house and septic inspection. Apparently, the buyer will be here during the inspection. This whole process is EXTREMELY nerve-wracking. So this weekend we have four ball games, 2 in town and 2 out of town and the rest of the time will be spent in preparation for the inspection on Tuesday. Monday I have to go directly from work to a Scentsy party. I love doing them, but the timing was a bit bad for this one. Oh well, who knew? Looking forward to Wednesday when we are through with inspections and know the outcome. This is the difficult part about selling a house built in the 1860's. I love this place and there are things I will miss TREMENDOUSLY. It's going to be some give and take, but I feel confindent that we are doing the right thing. Just happy to be moving forward.

Read this this a.m......felt it right in the ol' heart.

“May you find your life in losing it. May you live your life

by dying daily. May you give it all and keep nothing for

yourself. May your treasure chest be filled to overflowing
with the priceless crowns of sacrificial devotion.
May you give yourself away in a joyful and risky abandon.

May you follow the Lamb even if He takes you up a hill and

onto a brutal cross. Especially if He takes you there.

May you turn your back on safety and comfort and preditable

and soft - and pour yourself out like a drink offering of love on

the least of these, on the most of these, for the death and the life

of these. May you spend what you cannot keep to gain what

you can never lose. May you awake to live His dream, not

yours, or your country’s , nor your family’s. And may you rejoice

to hear the applause which is a weight of eternal glory too heavy

to bear.” (~Timothy Stoner)


(Thanks for this post this morning, Jody!)

Re-do

Ok, so the first offer was just a test. As of Tuesday late afternoon it was out the door. Our potential buyers are experiencing a little issue on the financing end of things. Not necessarily their fault, just some recent changes in lending stipulations have thrown a wrench in things.



So, we went back to the drawing board to come up with something satisfactory for all parties involved. We have a new verbal agreement that will work for all of us so we are now waiting for the formal agreement to be drawn up.



There are still things that can get in the way and make this a bumpy path. Expecting the worst, praying for the best. Down on my knees again tonight.....

just a little stressful....

this whole house thing is just a 'bit' stressful. we have encountered a couple hiccups already. there is a slight issue which may cause us to have to go back into negotiations. it's still do-able, just going to take some thinking and more negotiating and a new offer. the problem is not on our end but we may end up having to 'give' a little more than we anticipated or wanted. still praying and trusting that this is meant to be. it's not in my hands and whatever is supposed to happen, will happen. but, i still have that incredibly sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. trying so hard to just 'be still'.......

it's getting to be midnight. just got my Scentsy work done. have to get some laundry done and then it will be off to bed....just in time to get a couple hours of sleep in before the new day begins.

getting closer!

Well, we are one step closer. Our potential buyers have accepted and signed our counter offer. The only contingency is of course, the inspections, and they want to see the crp contract that they will be taking over. CRP is the USDA program that we have about half of our ground in. We planted about 1200 trees on it and now we are in an agreement in which we won't do anything with it except let the trees grow. So once they see and agree to that we will be moving forward! And, good Lord willing, we will be closing in July. It's a little scary, but so exciting.

Can't Hold It In ANY Longer......

We got an offer on our house. Not an ACCEPTED offer, but an offer. It came in Thursday afternoon. We submitted a counter offer today at 5:30pm. We're still waiting to hear back. It's going to be a long weekend if we have to wait until Tuesday. But, it's been an even longer 14 months of having this place on the market. So ready to be done. So ready to move on. Let's do this thing already!!

My Little Muskie

This little one looks pretty tiny out there on the big field with the big boys. Never would have thought we would be traveling around watching this boy play ball at 6 years old. It's a dream come true for him. He had a couple good games on Sunday. He's getting the bat on the ball and gaining confidence every day. Most of the boys are on the team are about 2 years older than him. But, he gets it, he loves it, and I love to watch these boys.

Going home.....

a little instruction from dad......

And yes, the field was full of dandelions, not mowed, infield was rock, there was a playground in the outfield, and the closest restroom was the Dairy Queen about 4 miles away. Makes me appreciate even more the quality, the hard work and committed effort that gets put into our fields.

The Boat Show

Don't give up...

Please don't give up on me. I WILL blog. Sometime. Soon. When I have a few minutes. Which seem a little hard to come by these days.

Time for Dinner

The kids wanted conqueso dip for supper. I can handle that, but not exactly what I was wanting. So MUSHROOMS for me!!! Yay!

A Good Day

Saturday was a good shroomin day. Found quite a few big ones. Haven't cooked a single one yet. After hunting, slicing and cleaning them, I wasn't in the mood anymore. I would imagine in the next day or so we will be having a mushroom feast! Mmmmm....mmmmm....goood!

B oys and their Toys

The boys got to stop by Greg's work on Saturday before heading to baseball. They LOVE the big equipment!

Saturday

Creighton had a buddy over on Saturday. Poor kid got put to work.....

pizza on the porch. they were too dirty to come in to eat lunch!

Maddison Mushroom Hunting

The ONE and ONLY....

two hours of mushroom hunting and one mushroom was it. I was the lucky one that found it, but Creighton quickly claimed it.

I'm so loved......

I got my first dandelion bouquet of the season this weekend. It's so beautiful.....

Scentsy, Scentsy and MORE Scentsy.....

I have been spending a LOT of time getting my scentsy business off the ground. It's work, it's time consuming, but so far it's been fun. My sister-in-law, Tangie has been invaluable in helping me...answering endless phone calls and emails from me and working into the wee hours of the morning helping get my CRAZY big first order submitted. I had my first party last Friday at friend and neighbor Tara's house. It was certainly successful. This is what my family room looked like when just a portion of the order came in. Warmers, bars, car candles, room sprays galore......

Thanks again, Dave.....

One night last winter, Dave and family came out for some Mario Cart. Dave told Creighton that these were 'racing glasses'. So Creighton believes that these help him when he is gaming. This week he discovered some new game online and wasn't doing so good his first couple of tries. He suddenly blurted out, "I know, I need my glasses for this game!". Thanks, Dave. Thanks, alot.... :)