Fall is Here
For the first time in five or so months, we took a walk outside with the kids. It is unseasonably cool, and the temps will creep up again before we're totally done with the summer heat, but fall is definitely here. It is such a relief. As the summer crawls to an end, so does my mood slowly improve. To be able to get outside with the kids a little bit every day just makes things so much better.
And what good timing. In my head, I always kind of thought we'd be wrapping up this house adventure right about now, and here we are at the same place we began. It's a reason to be depressed, but it's also a new season, we are feeling refreshed, and we are evaluating new strategies. At this point, we've made peace with the fact that we'll end up getting less for our house than we had originally hoped. We are considering whether taking it off the market and then re-listing it in a few months will help anything. It would give us a break, which we need, and also we wouldn't have to worry about our house being on the market during the holidays. But I don't know...the ultimate goal is to get this place sold. If keeping it on the market through the holidays is (theoretically) going to help us achieve our goal, then that is fine by me.
For now, I'm just thankful for the change in season and for a million other things, too. It's the best time of year, and things are really good. Life is too short to let something like this house situation cast a shadow over everything else. I've lived enough life to know that you can't always have something just because you want it. I'm no stranger to disappointment, but at the same time, our life is very, very good. Over the weekend we were at a meeting, and a mug was on the table that said "The Perfect Life" and underneath in smaller letters it read "If not now, when?" It's so true. I'm learning that putting my happiness on hold while I wait for something to happen that is almost completely out of my control is not a way to live.
Yes, living out here is annoying, and moving is definitely the right thing to do. I'm not going to talk myself out of it just because we are having a hard time selling the house. Every single day that we live here is so annoying. Today, we flew home from Portland and picked up the kids on the way back from the airport. After getting everyone home to a house with no food, we realized that the next time we could feasibly get to Costco (or any grocery store) to stock the house would be Wednesday...three days from now. It shouldn't be so difficult. We should be able to come home from the airport and then send someone back out to get groceries, but we just cannot do that from out here. One of us will probably pack a full size cooler for the cold groceries and hit up a store at some point while we're running around town tomorrow or Tuesday. We won't starve, but figuring out the logistics of getting some milk and bread in the house needs to stop being a thing. We're not giving up this fight yet. We'll do whatever it takes to get us into a place that will allow us to live a normal life. We might end up in something much smaller than we had hoped or with ugly tile or floors or a kitchen that we can't afford to renovate, but even if we can't go all Joanna Gaines on our next house, it will still be good enough.
And what good timing. In my head, I always kind of thought we'd be wrapping up this house adventure right about now, and here we are at the same place we began. It's a reason to be depressed, but it's also a new season, we are feeling refreshed, and we are evaluating new strategies. At this point, we've made peace with the fact that we'll end up getting less for our house than we had originally hoped. We are considering whether taking it off the market and then re-listing it in a few months will help anything. It would give us a break, which we need, and also we wouldn't have to worry about our house being on the market during the holidays. But I don't know...the ultimate goal is to get this place sold. If keeping it on the market through the holidays is (theoretically) going to help us achieve our goal, then that is fine by me.
For now, I'm just thankful for the change in season and for a million other things, too. It's the best time of year, and things are really good. Life is too short to let something like this house situation cast a shadow over everything else. I've lived enough life to know that you can't always have something just because you want it. I'm no stranger to disappointment, but at the same time, our life is very, very good. Over the weekend we were at a meeting, and a mug was on the table that said "The Perfect Life" and underneath in smaller letters it read "If not now, when?" It's so true. I'm learning that putting my happiness on hold while I wait for something to happen that is almost completely out of my control is not a way to live.
Yes, living out here is annoying, and moving is definitely the right thing to do. I'm not going to talk myself out of it just because we are having a hard time selling the house. Every single day that we live here is so annoying. Today, we flew home from Portland and picked up the kids on the way back from the airport. After getting everyone home to a house with no food, we realized that the next time we could feasibly get to Costco (or any grocery store) to stock the house would be Wednesday...three days from now. It shouldn't be so difficult. We should be able to come home from the airport and then send someone back out to get groceries, but we just cannot do that from out here. One of us will probably pack a full size cooler for the cold groceries and hit up a store at some point while we're running around town tomorrow or Tuesday. We won't starve, but figuring out the logistics of getting some milk and bread in the house needs to stop being a thing. We're not giving up this fight yet. We'll do whatever it takes to get us into a place that will allow us to live a normal life. We might end up in something much smaller than we had hoped or with ugly tile or floors or a kitchen that we can't afford to renovate, but even if we can't go all Joanna Gaines on our next house, it will still be good enough.
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