Leaving the Farm

I've wanted to blog about this for the last several weeks, but I needed it to be a bit more official. And while it's not completely a done deal, it's close enough: Farm Wife & family are leaving the farm, vacating the premises. Yep, we're moving!

Back around the first of December, some friends of ours who had recently sold their house came out to look at ours. We didn't think a thing about it... Until they said they wanted it! I remember the day Mark & I stood at the fence talking about it and laughing, like, "What the heck do we do now?"

We almost said no. We love our home. I mean, we've got a pretty sweet set-up here. Right across the street from the greenhouses, pasture and barn aplenty, and Lord knows we've spent tons of time and that green stuff to make it just like we want it. Even three and a half years later, I still look at my "new" cabinets and give a happy little sigh. We have such wonderful, happy memories here, and though we've talked about selling and moving sometime down the road, I think we both figured that we'd likely be here a lot longer, if not forever.

We called about a couple of places to no avail, then Mark said, "Before we tell them no, why don't you call about that one place..." It was such a long shot that I hated to even make the call. That first call led to more calls, and weeks of roller coaster rides that I'll talk about in another post. It's pretty amazing.

It would be a super neat story if I told you all how we're leaving the farm, heading for a house in the 'burbs, wouldn't it? Well, we're not. Because that would be entirely too easy.

If the place we're getting all works out (and we have no reason to believe it won't, just still have to do all the legwork to make it ours), our acreage will actually increase.

However, at least for the time being, our square footage will drastically decrease. We aren't sure yet how much space we will have in the new place. It's highly likely - probable, even - that we will have a tiny little house. What we do know is that while we are building and/or remodeling, we will be living in a two-bedroom, single-wide trailer that my Mom & Dad own. All six of us. I'm choosing to call it an adventure!

The goals for the next week or so: Close on our house and get the ball rolling faster towards acquiring the new place. Find foster homes for the animals we're not selling. Then comes the fun part: packing! My goal is to downsize our stuff by about 75%. It's a declutterer's dream come true, and great material to blog about (the red zig-zag spell check line is telling me declutterer is not a word)!

Sunday night we signed the contract with our friends who are buying our house. I pray it will be the perfect place for them, and that they will have as much happiness here as we have.

More to come on our housing saga, and can I just say, it's GREAT to blog again!

Blessings,
Em