Saying Goodbye to the Old Home

I've always had a hard time saying goodbye to something important in my life, and saying goodbye to our house on Sunflower Trail is no exception.  So much took place here that shaped the foundations of our family.  We moved to the Sunflower house when I was pregnant with Benjamin, after having bought it during the construction phase.  It was literally like nesting, as we chose the very materials that would go inside.  We established our married life in the Sunflower house and we brought three beautiful babies home to this house. You can't get much more meaningful than all of this.  Benjamin was the only one of the boys who is old enough to be sad about saying goodbye.  In fact, he was not yet happy about moving to the new house until a few days after we moved in.  He explained that he would miss his first home, and all of the memories that he had made there.  Although we don't have to technically say goodbye yet, we certainly have been sad saying good bye to calling Sunflower house our home.

Changes Abound

I have not posted in a while due to a whirlwind of events in the Vaughn household.  First and foremost, the move!  Lance and I always talked about moving in the next few years because we knew our brood of three boys would outgrow a house of three bedrooms.  We were sad about this because we do love our first family home and especially our place on the Sunset Valley greenbelt.  We worked hard on beautifying and putting our personal stamp on the yard.  But we knew it would soon be time to move on.

It all started when Lance suggested that we go looking at homes near Regents.  It was like putting a match to dry Texas shrubs, because once you go looking....  We saw our house on the first tour with our neighbor-realtor Gregg.  There were plenty of ooh's and ahh's, and I loved the yard most of all.  THe problem was that we knew it was just too much out of our budget.  We started looking at homes in a lower price range and had actually settled on one that we put a contract on.  The plans to remodel this other home became to seem daunting and, at the same time, the price had dropped on our eventual new home.  With my parents' encouragement we decided to back out of the other contract and immediately place a bid on our home.  They wanted a quick close and we were in the house within two weeks!

To make things even crazier then putting a contract on and moving into a house in two weeks, we had out-of-town guests the following week.  I will have to make a separate post to document my brother and sister-in-laws' visit.  We also put our house on the market right before we moved out.  We thought it would be an advantage to be out of the house for all of the people to come view it.  The funny thing is that hardly any people have wanted to see it at all!  Guess we would have been just fine living there while it was on the market.  Not to be!

We are very settled in our new house considering the short time that we've been here.  I feel God's work in this move, and know that He wants us to be happy here.  Its hard to imagine how we ended up in this place without His hand.  It seems rather improbable.  This house sat vacant for some time, had renters for some time, and had several contracts fall through.  Its not an ugly duckling by any means, so it leaves one wondering why...why was such a beautiful home missing a family for so long?  I believe that it was waiting for us!