I'm thankful for our home
When we found out we were pregnant with Brayden, we knew we needed something bigger than our already-too-small apartment. We searched and searched and almost bought a town house, but it just never felt right. Everything in our price range was either too small, too far away or needed way too much work. We ended up giving up looking and just resigned ourselves to apartment living with a baby. Then, out of the blue, a couple of weeks later, an elderly man from our church called us. He said he had heard we were house hunting and said he was wanting to sell his house. to us. Wow! Talk about a God thing. I'm so glad we didn't buy one of those townhouses we had looked at (we'd probably still be stuck with that thing!). He sold it to us "as is" for a great price. One of his neighbors was a realtor and offered to do all the paperwork for free. We didn't have to pay anything down or any closing costs, a real blessing to us in our first year out of college. God really came through providing a house for us. At the time it was way too big for us, but as we have grown our family, our house has been able to accomadate all of us.
We have been in our house for 8 and a half years now! It seems hard to believe sometimes. We have redone a lot of it and it feels like ours. There are days we think we'll be in this house forever and days we look forward to someday moving into another house. But this house is home right now, and for that reason I love it! It is the house we brought all 4 children home from the hospital to. It is the house where we have spent countless hours painting, renovating and remodeling to make it our own. It is the house where we spend most of our time together as a family. Sure, it's not perfect, sure it needs some work, but it's much more than a house to me, it is our home.
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