Freedom

We are no longer the proud owners of a home, but we are free!! Our house sold last week, and we're relieved. It was for sale for just over a month, but we were anxious most of the time because of how bad the market is. We cleaned like maniacs and had an open house every weekend. The offer we ended up taking was pretty good, and we're thankful for it. Last night we filled up a couple of glasses of sparkling grape juice and toasted to freedom, a break from paying a mortgage, and Mona (we just tossed that in because she was in the kitchen with us looking cute -- get over it Dad).

So now we're going to be homeless for awhile. We close on July 16 and the new owners are allowing us a month after that to move out, which is great. But after that we don't have anything lined up yet. The plan is to move in with family for awhile and save. The prospect of being mortgage-free for a few months makes me giddy. And the fact that our lives are suddenly not-so-planned-out is refreshing too.

The lucky recipients of our little fam (ha) will probably be Joel & Jessie Klooster, our brother and sister-in-law, and possibly my parents later on after J & J get sick of us.

Thanks to all of you who listened to our panicky monologues over the past few weeks about whether the place would sell or not. This is a fresh start for us, and we appreciate all of you who will be helping us during the transition.