sorry that your riding a frustrating roller coaster of uncertanty right now in regards to looking at / getting a house. Hope everything turns out like you want it to.

Edited by catonine on Aug. 3, 2005 at 10:45 AM

I know how you feel. We've been half a year trying to move, and every possible 'no' will pop up, and we'll question if we're doing what God wants (we know we have to move - gas prices and bill payment increases have made that a necessity)... then all of a sudden the floodgates open and everything lines up... just to revert to no-ville again. ((It's ridiculous stuff, too - like Wednesday we 'closed' on the land we were buying, but we don't 'own' it, because FedEX has lost the deed in transit from the Chicago Bank...)) My hub says it's an exercise in patience from Above, because no one has ever dealt with as much as we have in this - five months, and we're so stalled, it's not funny.

Keep the faith - when the right house comes, you'll know it. ((wink!))

I'm dying to know...did you get good news on the house? I hope that since you haven't been back to blog, it means your too busy making moving plans!!! :)
Blessings!
Becky

I hope you get your house! It took us two years of hunting to find the perfect house and now we've been here for almost 9 years! Keep the faith!
Deb K.

Hi Gwen, it's Bobbi from Calmwaters/OLL and CWLite.
I have my own blog here too, but have no idea how to use it. lol It's called Hobbits Hollow.
Just read your post and will be praying for you. Wish I could do more, or just wave a magic wand and make you all better. HUGS!!!

Bobbi

Hi. I just wanted to offer some encouragement. Believe me...In 2002, my husband and I were house-hunting and it was soooo discouraging. Then, we found it. The house of our dreams (for the most part). There was even land, a garage, it was sooo nice. But there were holes in the attic and daylight just streamed through. Still...No one else had really expressed any interest in the house. And, I reasoned with myself, it was my favorite color! Blue siding. Anyway, we made an offer on the house and asked them to repair the roof. But it was contingent on our selling our own house (which had only been on the market a short time and was rather small -- only 2 bedrooms). So, we ended up waiting and praying, truly believing that God was just going to bless us with that house! Well, to try to make a long, agonizing story short, we lost the house. Not once. Not twice. Three times. (The other two deals fell through and they kept coming back to us). Well, we kept reasoning that God must surely want us to have that house if the other deals kept falling through, and we finally sold our home on what we believed was the deadline to sell our house while another offer was presented to the sellers. And it was cash. And - unbeknownst to us - our agreement had expired the day before. So we sold our house, and had no perfect (or almost-perfect) house to buy. It was devastating. We didn't understand it. Then, we found this rambling old 2-unit house. Each side had three bedrooms and a bath on the second floor, a living room, dining room and kitchen on the first floor. A basement. An attic. A two-car garage. A wrap-around porch. No acreage, but in the country. Not a lot of trees, but enough sun for a huge garden. And the second unit came complete with a tenant. So we bought it. Lived in one side, rented the other. The payments we were making were less than we had on our little two-bedroom. Still, I couldn't understand why God hadn't wanted us to have that other house. Then, we decided to adopt another child (we'd already adopted one). The rooms in our current house were large and we were able to fit a few beds in each room. Well, we ended up not only adopting a sibling group of four from across the country, but then found out we were expecting our own. Our tenant bought her own house and now we have the whole big thing to ourselves, and when we are finished remodeling, there will be seven or so bedrooms, a playroom, a real homeschool room, an extra bathroom... So, you see...I had no idea why we never got that other house. But God knew it wouldn't be big enough for the family He was about to bless us with! Hope that encourages you about the house hunting! God bless!

I stumbled across your blog..my name is Christi...we were on a group together for a while. I remember that you had just found out that you were preg with #3. Congratulations!!
I know the post about the house is old...I wonder if something happened since then.
Hope all is well!