Saturday, January 18, 2014

Selling, Moving and Building... Oh My!

Ever since we have been back in Moose Jaw we have wanted to settle outside of the city. With our first attempt at building at the farm ending up with us not feeling like the timing was right, we are finally in the middle of doing it! It all started in about January of 2013, Braden and Nina said they wanted to build at the farm, and so we started thinking about it again as well. With them building at the same time, some of our costs would be shared which would help greatly in the endeaver because it is expensive!!We put our house on the market around April and had some interest in the beginning. We knew because we listed privately that it could take longer to sell but not having to pay commission to a realtor was a bigger draw. After having no serious interest, we finally had a family come through that was very interested in our house. After viewing it twice they took the offer to purchase forms home and said they would make an offer. Well a month passed and we didn't hear anything. During that time we had talked to our friends Dight and Marcy, as they had offered their basement to us to live in while our house was being built. We decided to let that option go, as they had someone else who wanted to use their basement and we really had no idea when our house would sell! The market had unexpectedly slowed and we were starting to get discouraged. But the night we gave up our place at Marcy and Dwights, I told Stephen "Now that we don't have a safety net we will probably get an offer!" The next morning the family called us and said they were taking care of some finances and were ready to put an offer in! Long story short it sold, with a possession date 14 days after my due date. It was a little concerning having such a short period of between baby coming and moving out but we knew that God has orchestrated the sale, when most houses weren't selling, so He would orchestrate the timing of the baby coming and the move date. We moved into Mike + Debby's house, where they graciously let us live for 4 months. Stephen then decided to surprise me for Christmas and renovated the upper level of the shop into a temporary apartment. It was an awesome surprise and so wonderful to have our own space to celebrate Christmas in and to settle in until our new house was complete. We think we will be here until March or April. Time will tell!

We are very excited to be building, and even though it is taking quite a bit longer than planned we know it will be well worth it. We will be getting chickens and milk goat or two in the spring. Trying our hand at collecting rain water and planting gardens and small orchid. A new dog and kittens will be added, and we have promised the boys a fish tank as well. It will be so wonderful to live a fuller, more self sufficient life style. We are so blessed to be able to have this lifestyle for our kids and generous in laws who let us have some of their land. 2014 will be the beginning of a new chapter that we have been waiting for so long to start.

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