When we moved in, we knew that we would be there for 5-10 years. We settled into the little house on Dove Creek Place as a married couple and started changing the house to our liking right away. Looking back, the house we bought is so unfamiliar to me!
A few years later, we brought our first baby girl home to this house. We took her newborn pictures in our backyard. We rocked her to sleep in the upstairs corner, we prepared her baby food in a newly renovated kitchen, and we gave her a bath in the bathroom that her daddy tiled himself. She took her first steps in the playroom and enjoyed all of her first holidays at this house.
We learned we were expecting a baby sister - cried & laughed about it in this house. I'll be forever grateful that we lived so close to the hospital after having to drive there in labor. {Bumps plus contractions do NOT equal fun times!} We created our new normal with two little girls at this house. We again rocked and bathed and fed and watched Janie take her first steps by the Christmas tree. We watched our babies grow into playmates and friends.
We've celebrated birthdays and baptisms and countless holidays, all which have created memories that will last a lifetime.
We decided that it was time to sell our house this past fall when the market showed a lot of promise. We knew that it would be challenging to get the house ready & have showings while in school, with two toddlers, and with Justin traveling each week, so we started prepping the house and decided to list it in early spring.
When the time came to list, we moved to my mom & dad's until the house sold and the chaos settled down a bit. The house moved quickly and we were back in a couple weeks. Knowing that we had some time before closing but that we also had to get ALL of our things out, we tried to find the balance between packing up everything & living out of suitcases and leaving too much out. We saved the girls things until close to the end so that they wouldn't be too disturbed by the move, and overall they handled it very well.
By the end of March, we were pretty much packed up with an empty house. We signed the papers & made it official. We spent our last night in the house eating a picnic on the living room floor {the girls loved it!} and sleeping on mattresses only... except for Janie who is still in her crib. Justin & I even moved our mattress downstairs to the living room so we could watch a movie.
Playing in an empty bedroom!
Picnic in the living room.
Did we leave enough notes for the new home owners???
Celebrating the close of our home!
We are celebrating, I promise, but this move has been bittersweet. Probably mostly for me. There are so many little moments that we have shared as a family in this house. I cried a few times. I don't know if the girls will remember our first home, but I will never forget! I am so very grateful for our time here.
FOLLOW UP: After many house showings and surely driving our realtor crazy, we have found a new home & will be closing on it at the end of May, God willing. We will update you when we can!
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