Update

So...I haven't updated for a while on the whole Corbett house thing...people have been asking, so I figure I should talk about it! =)

We went and looked at the house..it was all wrong for us. I won't go into all the details, but since it's been on the market for over a year, we thought that maybe if we bought it, we'd be stuck with it too. Also, it wasn't that much bigger than our current house so we knew we'd quickly outgrow it. Plus, there was no yard to speak of and even if we put one in, we'd have to put a fence around it to keep our kids from falling off the cliff! (it was on a mountian) So, it wasn't a very family friendly house!

This last weekend, Josh and I spent quite a bit of time driving around Corbett and checking out houses for sale. Josh totally fell in love with one that is on 10.5 acres up on Larch Mountian. Unfortunately it was out of our price range and I actually called the realtor on it and he said that the owner wan't going to budge much, if any on the price...okay, fair enough! There is one other possibility that we're considering. It's a fixer house. It's in a great location and on just over 2 acres. The size of the house is great (1800+ sqft and 4 bed, 2 bath). We haven't seen the inside yet...I talked to the selling agent about it yesterday and she is going to do some research on the financing on it because of the condition and when she figures it out, she'll call. I'm certianly not scared of a little hard work and 'sweat equity'...especially if it put us in Corbett...but I certianly don't want a house that's going to fall in on us! The asking price is higher than what we can afford and probably higher that I would pay considering the condition...so if we can figure out financing and we decide to make an offer, it would be significanly lower than asking price. But..the house has been on the market for quite a while, the price has dropped in the last few weeks which would indicate a willingness to go lower in order to get it sold, and we know the owner doesn't live there, so there's a possibility of her having 2 mortages. All of which works to our favor! But who knows!

I have started to gain a sort of affection for the house though. Maybe that sounds weird to people. It did to Josh! For those of you who don't know, I make a little extra money on the side by buying old pieces of furniture from Goodwill or wherever and painting them, fixing them up and reselling them. One of the reasons I love this so much is because I see the sad little dresser or whatever and it's like it speaks to me..."Please buy me. I so wish I could be pretty so someone could love me and make me useful again." So I buy the piece of furniture and I imagine while I'm painting that it is saying, "Oh, thank you, now someone can love me." And then I take pictures of it and put it on craigslist and someone does love it and comes to buy it and take it home. Sometimes it's a little sad for me, because after all, we have built a relationship. But I know that it will be loved and so I let it go. Am I crazy? I might be. When I first saw the house, I was disappointed because it was uglier than I'd hoped...at least from the outside...but then, later on, I started thinking of waht we could do to change and improve it. And then I started to get excited. Because after all, I know the house also wants to be pretty and find someone to spend some time with it and make it feel loved again.

So please keep praying for us. I have been feeling this sense of urgency suddenly. I don't know if it's of me or of God. But I do feel like moving would be one of the best things that I could do for my kids. We're just praying for wisdom!