Home Sweet Home part 1

So this is where the story began:

Last August we listed our home for sale. We started with a high price. Yes, we know the market isn't great, but we weren't in a hurry to leave our lovely home. We just had a hunch this was the time to move and we were testing the waters to see if we could make a 'pretty penny' on our home. You never know. There are a lot of dumb people - maybe one of them wanted our house enough to pay that price. Worth a shot.

Mid Oct: Nope. No one wanted to pay that much. I was tired of little showings, no offers, and the constant stress of perfect cleaning with four little kids. The house came off the market.

We decide to wait until Spring to list again. That way we have the holidays to ourselves without people touring our home. Patrick began to 'shop' for cars. We eventually needed a 4x4 for him again (for work) and we started the search. He was constantly on the computer looking for the perfect deal.

Mid Nov: Patrick was on the computer again one Saturday morning. What's new??
"Tara! Come look at this!" I assumed he found the perfect SUV. I come downstairs to see him looking at houses online. "This again??" I ask. I thought we had put this off til next year....

He is showing this ugly little house to me that actually, I had seen several times before. The weird thing about this time... is that Patrick is looking at it. See.... um... he hates ugly houses. Totally not like him. Completely out of character. So he gets a bug in his butt to drive out and see it. We do, and we love it. It sits on 6.45 of the most beautiful Colorado acreage that I've ever seen. But the house is ugly. And small. And old.

We call out our realtor to see the inside. It is vacant and winterized, so we freeze to death touring it... but love it. Well... I don't know about love it.... but love the potential. We see how we could make it work for our large family. It would require a lot of work, and some patience as we learn to live in half the house... but it would be worth it for the land and the opportunity to raise our kids 'that way'.

(to be continued......)