End of Days

Our house is sold!

I've been wanting to write about it for awhile, but there have been so many what ifs and doubts and fears clouding my brain these past few weeks as we've waded through the craziness of inspections and appraisals and trying to find a new house in Lincoln and all the subsequent craziness that has come as a result of actually finding a house in Lincoln, that at first I was too afraid (it appears I have some growing to do in the faith and trust department) and now there just hasn't been a lot of time!

Everything has turned out fine. Is that not usually the way it happens? I worry, worry, worry, and usually for no good reason other than to make myself looney. Our buyers have received their loan commitment, and there was only one "minor" setback which resulted from our inspection. We had to install a radon mitigation system which came as a rather unpleasant and expensive surprise. Fun! But as a sort of off set to our irritation over our radon issue, Todd received a lot of compliments on his professional-looking basement finishing skills from all the various people who've been in our house during the last four weeks which was nice to hear considering all the blood, sweat, and tears (literally!) that have been poured into that space - especially in the last six months! So now we are on track to close next Tuesday and meanwhile are knee deep in packing boxes and piles of our stuff.

Here's a picture of the current state of our living room:

Our basement looks pretty much the same. For a family that purges on a regular basis, it seems like we still have too much stuff! How is that possible?

The next few weeks are going to be very busy and very bittersweet for us as we wrap up things here. Todd is leaving after work this Friday to move all our stuff to Lincoln, and then turning around and coming back Saturday so that he can be here for our last Sunday at The Summit (sniff!). Next week we close on Tuesday, Iris has her preschool Christmas program on Thursday, and we leave to move to Lincoln for good that Friday morning. And crammed into all the nooks and crannies as much as we can, there will be lots of goodbyes (temporary!) to people and places we love.

Along the same lines, the next few months are going to be some of the most stressful of our lives as we make this incredible life transformation into church planting. Nothing about our life is going to look the same which can be at times a very terrifying and overwhelming thought. We covet all the prayers we can get, so please, please pray for us! We would love to make it through this time without losing our minds and with our family still intact.

I'll try to post if anything changes, and I still want to post pictures of the house we'll be buying in Lincoln! I've been wary because I don't know if it's actually OK to post pictures of a house we don't technically own yet. We have a contract, but we're doing a special kind of loan in order to incorporate some of the repair costs into our loan, and we're still waiting for all that to get approved by the bank. We're super excited about this house and the neighborhood it's in, but you have to promise not to laugh when you see the pictures. I swear this house has major potential!