Good Bye

Tonight we closed on the sale of our house. 


And honestly the whole experience has gone just about as smoothly as I think anything this complicated could possibly go.

 
We listed it online - For Sale by Owner - on a Sunday afternoon and the next day we sold it.

 
It is exactly what I hoped would happen and exactly how I always prayed this whole thing would go.

 
And now we're poised and (just about) ready to spring off into the future, and into (what I'm sure will be) a crazy adventure of trying to build a new house!

 
And I could not be more grateful or more excited about it.


 
God has absolutely been beside us and with us in this entire journey so far. We have both been praying boldly and fiercely for His guidance and His help the whole way through this. I KNOW He is with us. And I know He will continue to be in control of all this. I'm trying very hard to find His peace and to just give all my worries to Him.

 
But in spite of all these incredible and undeserved blessings we have been given, if it's ok, I think just for today, I'm not really feeling all that excited.

 
Today I am struggling hard with letting go.... and with saying good bye.


 
Today I cannot stop being overcome with emotion and tears at the finality of handing over my house keys and signing my name.

 
Today I am sad. 



And I just keep wondering how long it's going to take until I stop feeling like I "can't go home"....




So we took pictures. And made one last memory on our final day at our home. 

 We sat together on our living room floor after our picnic lunch....

 We made silly faces....

 We played on the swingset Daddy built......

 We climbed the "favorite" climbing tree....

 

(some of us needed more help than others :) )




And after Daddy got home, we had a picnic dinner under the pergola we built together one freezing, early Spring....

 Had one last underdoggie....

 Held hands and took a very long, very slow walk around the property.....

And I relished every bittersweet moment  - of my most favorite part of the day - as through tear streaked eyes, we watched the sky turn pink one last time on Krug Road.
 

And we locked the doors.

 

And then we took a running leap towards the future... and left a piece of our life behind. 


We walked away from our home for the very last time.


 And we said goodbye.  ♥