A Beautiful Place

If you’ve been following along with me for the last couple of months, you know that I have been searching for a beautiful place…

(You can read more about it here, here, and here.)

…but the search is over.

No, we did not sell our house.  We have taken it off the market.

I won’t lie to you--it is difficult for me to let go of the dream of a newer, bigger, better home.

NOT that I don’t love the home we are in.  I am grateful for it every day!  But I finally had to decide that there were other things more important that “newer, bigger, better.”

In four short years, my little chicklets will start leaving the nest…what do we really need more space for? 

And at the same time, we’ll have college and missions to worry about…do we really want to have more of a mortgage to pay? 

We love our neighbors, and the kids are doing well in school…do we really want to start over?

Well, I can bet you can guess the way we answered all those questions!

No, our home isn’t perfect.  And the garage certainly isn’t perfect! (We still can’t fit both cars in along with the freezer and extra refrigerator!) 

But it is our  home, and it is beautiful to us.

(And I certainly won’t stop trying to make it more beautiful!)

You will never know how much your comments, advice, and encouragement have meant to me as we struggled to decide what was best for our family.

So much more I want to say, so much appreciation I wish I could convey, but I can’t type through the tears…

…so I will just say thank you.