After months and months

and months of trying (actually it was only 10 days!!) we have SOLD OUR HOUSE!!! We put it on the market 10 days ago and without the help of a realtor it sold! We received an offer yesterday, countered it today and she accepted! We are selling it to a nice woman who is a single mother to a 6 year old. She's currently going through a divorce and living with her parents - which she said she's happy to do until we are able to move in early November(hopefully). We are coming in at $3,000 under our asking price, which we're pretty happy with since we didn't expect to get our asking price anyway!

She was the first person to contact us about looking at the house and she was the first showing we had. She brought her entire family (brother, sister-in-law, sister and brother-in-law, mother and father). It was quite a parade we had going down the hallway as they all filed in and out of each room. She'd been looking for a while, she'd said, and as far as we were concerned, our house seemed like the perfect fit for her and her daughter. She liked the house and wanted to talk with her parents more about it (they're helping her pay for it) and said she'd get back to us in a few days. In the meantime we showed the house to 2 other couples, and tried like hell to keep it spotless... well... as spotless as you can be with a 5 month old puppy running around...

Over the weekend she called us and asked if she could bring a home inspector by - we, of course, agreed. We knew she must be interested, to be paying for a home inspection. The home inspector found minimal things wrong with the house (everything we had already discussed with her previously). She called us later that night with an offer. We decided to counter her offer, she called her parents to share with them our offer, and within an hour of us giving her our counter, she called us back and accepted! We had already contacted a lawyer to discuss what paper work there would be to do, etc. So now we have a meeting set up next week to draw up the necessary paperwork and get the ball rolling!

Everything is moving so fast lately. Thankfully it's moving fast in a good way and things seem to be going really well for us! (now that I've probably just jinxed us!) The house is being delivered next week and set on the foundation on September 3rd. We are soooo excited! The well is set to be dug tomorrow and on Friday our basement floor is being poured. Busy, busy, busy!

Tonight we celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary and it was nice being able to catch up with each other and talk about all of the exciting things that are/will be happening. We are so blessed and so extremely excited for this home that we will be able to spend the rest of our lives in. Thankfully, between Darrell working and me getting back in to school to set up my classroom and start curriculum mapping, the time is flying by. I think November will be here before we know it!