Nerves

So it was September 14th and all the kids were in bed. I couldn't contain my nerves. I mean in a few days we would know whether we had a house or not. Well, they were reviewing our file. Last time they reviewed our file it was another 10 days before we had any news and it wasn't really good. I hop on the MLS to look at it and all its pictures, and dream i guess. While i was on there i started looking at all the houses i hadn't seen before. That was a bad idea. By the time i was finished i had a list of about 10 other houses. None were in Clanton and one i REALLY liked. I mean it sounded to good to be true. I e-mail my list to Eric to see what he thinks. The next night we talk about all the houses. Do i send it to our realtor? How do i explain to her that i am still looking at houses when we already have an offer in? I send it to her Thursday morning. She slowly starts sending me responses to each house. I couldn't take it anymore and i called to ask about the one house in Alabaster i really liked. She looks, i wait. She said we could take a look at it, but lets wait to hear about shorty first. I trust her. I mean she was my sunday school teacher when i was little. Thursday afternoon she calls and says we can go then or on Friday morning. Turns out they would let us know about shorty in another day....or so. I vote for right then. I felt like the drive took us out to nowhere.We pull up to the house and as soon as i walk in I am in love. Wes meets us there and i just don't want to leave. Obviously i have too. :) I took videos and sent them to Eric and we decide to make an offer on this home.

Problem....it is a foreclosure, there are already two offers, more offers coming and my realtor was leaving Saturday morning to go on her annual scuba trip to HONDURAS!! I am not opposed to vacations but this was the worst time for me!! We had to put in our highest and best offer up front and pray. I was pretty stressed for the next week. What would i do if our offer was accepted for the house in Clanton? Did i wait to hear about both or just take it? Mid-week shorty starts asking for more paperwork. Paperwork they already had but they wanted again. UGH! Make a decision! Friday comes and my realtor is being evacuated from Honduras because of a hurricane. How can she be traveling on the last day of the work week. I mean i needed her to have access to her phone and e-mail all day in case there was some news. Can you tell how edgy i was? Eric flew in and no news, but our realtor made it to Miami safely. About 10:30 Eric and I were laying in bed debating about going to see the Alabaster house and i ask him to hand me my phone. I just wanted to check my e-mail one last time. BAM! There it was. The e-mail i had prayed about. I mean i prayed and prayed hard. It is always easier when the Lord opens a door and closes another. That way i don't have to worry about choosing the wrong one. There was no news about shorty but they had accepted our offer on the Alabaster home. Turns out there were 5 or 6 offers and it was a great deal with everything we wanted to do to shorty and move in ready. I knew the Lord had blessed us. I asked and he gave. For the record I asked for it IF it was in his will. HA! I jumped on the bed and went and woke my mom up. I am sure i scared her to death. Now, on to the inspection, appraisal, loan process and hopefully closing! I have watched to much HGTV and know that this contract can fall apart at any minute so now i pray it all goes through and we can start moving in soon.