Yes, here is our house! I have a love/hate relationship with this house.

We bought this house four and half years ago. We loved this house, it represented something that we both wanted for our family. You see...both my husband and I grew up in the same house throughout our childhood.  There was safety, security, comfort and family to never moving.  You to always coming home to the same house and family.  Buying this house was our step toward doing the same for our growing family.  We moved in with one kid and quickly started talking about our second.  This was were we were going to raise our family.

And yet here we are four years later, living in another state, in a borrowed and smaller place.  I love how God give us the room to learn and grow.  My picture of how to provide a safe and secure childhood for my kids is definitely evolving.  I have two boys who love where they live and why?  Because it is were their mom and dad are!  They find this "thorn in my side" apartment a place of security and love.  Ohhh how I have gotten caught up in the American dream of I' have not arrived since I do not own a house" (or in my situation, live in house).  Providing a secure and safe childhood for my kids to more then raising them in the same house their whole life.  

So if I could do the past three years over again.  They only thing I would do is not see my currently living place as temporary.  I have missed our on making this place a home for our family.  After three years of trying to convince myself that it would be useless to make this place work for us because we are going to move, I am going to make our place a functional place for our family.  I hope to post some pics of different projects I am going to do to help this family of four live and function in 800-900 square feet!  I am open to suggestions!

I had dreams of my family playing in the backyard.
 It has been a long journey giving those dreams to God.

A Buyer Wanted:

How about an update on our house and yes coming in March I will have lived in our current apartment for the same amount of time that I lived in my house!  And yet the crazy part is how much our small little apartment just feels like home.  I have a hard time imagining my family living in a bigger place! (and maybe it is a sign that I have lived here to long and am finally going crazy!).  I am wondering how does one keep tract of two kids in a bigger space.  Wouldn't there just be more places and things for kids to get into?  They are never to far out of my reach right now!!  And that is a good thing.  It is amazing how you will make any space you live in work for your family.

Anyways, our house has not sold yet.  We have found a wonderful couple who are currently house sitting for us, therefore the house has not be standing vacant this whole time.  He has also done some small projects for us and that has been very helpful!  The reason I wanted to post about this today is because we have two showing tomorrow (Sunday)!  No one has looked at our since last November, so we are excited to have two showing on Sunday.  Please pray that God brings the right buyers to our house!  It is a great house in a great location, but our difficulty is that we are having a hard time competing with a plethora of foreclosures and short sales in the Chicago market.  Houses are going cheap!   The other day I found a townhouse for sale we almost put a bid on four yeasr ago. Then it was going for about 200,000.  now I found it for around 130,000!