Some of you know that we, along with 5 of our neighbors, are in the process of negoiating the sale of our land to a developer. And if you didn't know–you do now!  We live behind a rather busy road and I'd like us to live in a neighborhood with kids and sidewalks.  This is me giving just a few of our for reasons selling land to developers…I'm not sure why I feel the need to justify it. We don't like this house and never planned to stay here long term. The entire two years here we've debated over whether we should fix/update things for our enjoyment + resale value, or will we end up being able to sell the house to developers (thus the house will be torn down) so doing things would be a waste of money. We ended up doing a kind of mixed bag…a little fixing up at a time. And I feel the things we've done, (such as add a door, put in the deck,) have made it a much nicer place to live while we were here so I don't think they were a waste of too much money.

Anyway, we are now two months into the process and are waiting on two neighbors to come to an agreement on the purchase price. Part of the purpose of this is to ask you to please pray with us that a deal can be met. We'd REALLY like to be able to do this! Also, I thought it would be funny to document the list of things we have NOT been doing that were on our To Do List this summer:

  • Paint the garage door
  • Paint the shutters
  • Paint the shed out back
  • Stain the deck
  • Landscaping the area that was torn up when work was done on the well. (Oh, looking at that post made me realize I didn't update you on that–insurance covered the cost of the well being repaired and the side walk being fixed, but no landscaping. So we have a lovely patch of weeds in front of our house right now.)
  • Fixing the 2 cracks in the ceiling in the hallway
  • Painting all the ceilings
  • Repainting our bedroom
  • Painting the kitchen cabinets white  (Yes, lots of painting. No one here seems too sad that we're waiting on this.)
  • Putting a door knob in the door for the play room/Guest room (this do hasn't had a door knob the 2 years we've lived here, I'm embarrased to share…something about the hole not being standard size. When that room was Alex's nursery, it was great, I could check on him without him seeing me!  Now that it's back to being a guest room, I think we should try to find one to fit. But why spend the money now, if the house won't be here in 6-9 months?)
  • Buying/Hanging up towel bars for the bathroom (Again, two years later and we're still using the hooks in the closet and on the back of the door. But I want one for a hand towel and the boys towels.  But I couldn't make up my mind on what I wanted.)
  • Clean all the windows inside and out

Let's just say if the deal falls through, we're going to have a busy fall!