SOLD!!!

Our house has officially sold!! It has felt like such a long road and there's been so many ups and downs but it's finally coming to an end.....or to a beginning actually. After 10 years, we're finally going to live together like a "normal" family. We're so excited about that. We'll actually have a husband and daddy come home for dinner every night :).

We originally had an offer on the house in mid-August. After being told it was a "sure thing" and there should be no problems with financing I booked a flight to Calgary to go house hunting. Well, the day before my flight, the deal fell through. Soooooo disappointing. But...Jude and I flew out anyway and spent 3 days with Trev. We looked at a bunch of houses on Saturday and found a house we really liked that had only been on the market for a week or so. But since our house wasn't yet sold, we couldn't make an offer. Jude and I flew back home on Monday and that evening we got another offer. By Tuesday afternoon it was a done deal....sold!! And by Wednesday, we had bought ourselves a house in Alberta. That's a whole lot to absorb in just 2 days!! It was so overwhelming, I wasn't quite sure what to feel at that point. My heart was aching and yet I was excited too all at the same time.

Well, that was a week ago...and the emotions are still a little mixed. I know it's still going to be extremely hard and emotional when I have to say my final good-bye to this house. But I want to leave my blessing here on this house....we've had 11 happy years here and I'm very thankful for the home we've made here. I brought home all 4 of my babies to this house and all of the memories are here. But, Trev's missing from a lot of those memories and that's what we're going to change and I can't wait for that. So, as hard as this whole experience is, I know that this is the road we're supposed to be on and I'm excited about our future.

Today was supposed to be the boys first day of school but just this week I decided I didn't want to put the boys in school here only to pull them out 3 weeks later. It was a really tough decision but I think this will be easier on them. I figured they already said all of their goodbyes in June and have slowly disconnected over the summer and it would be too hard to see all their school friends again then go through it all over again. It's the hardest for Samuel....he was sooo excited about starting kindergarten and now he has to wait even longer. I feel really bad for him but we told him we'd make it up to him....somehow. Seth's a little scared about making friends in the new school so we've been praying about it. It's so hard to see your kids go through something like this...but I know that he'll be fine. He's such a friendly social kid that I know he'll have no problem making friends.

So the next 2 weeks I'll continue organizing and packing as much as I can...we have a moving company coming in that will do all of the packing so really I don't need to do a thing. Woohoo!! But I'll still try to do what I can...I am my mother's daughter, you know ;).

I have to leave you with one more picture. We had family pictures done in June just before Trev left for Calgary. My family....my pride and joy....