The BIG Move

People say that the second most stressful thing you will ever do in your life is move house (the first is understandably bereavement). Over the past six months my little family and I have been trying to sell our house to buy a bigger house so that our family can grow (yes that's right Mum - I want more kids), and this week I am definitely feeling the stress.

So up until this week everything was fine - not too stressful. We had found the house of our dreams and were just sitting tight waiting for someone to buy ours. The market is slow, so we were prepared to wait it out.

Then two days ago someone came and burst our bubble. They came and bought the house of our dreams - snapped it up, and just like that my dream was over. All sorts of emotions ran through me, I wanted to find the person in question and tell them that we saw the house first and wanted it way more than they ever could. I had pictured the kids playing in the garden and envisioned how I would decorate every room. In some ways it already felt like home. Finally I realised I would just have to accept it and we would start to look for another house we could love.

Then the next day we get a call from the estate agent to tell us we have someone who wants to buy our house. Someone that viewed it over a month ago. I COULD HAVE SCREAMED with frustration. If only that person had agreed to buy our house 24hours earlier we would have got the house of our dreams. Now, not only did we lose out on the house of our dreams but we lost out by the SMALLEST margin. I was nearly sick. We have nowhere to go. We want to sell to the person who wants to buy our house, but he wants it now and we literally have nowhere to go.

This next week is going to be spent frantically trying to find somewhere to live. I felt rushed, panicked, flustered and just wanted to give up on the whole thing and just take the house off the market and stay where we are. Then I looked out the kitchen window and saw my beautiful boys running around the garden with big smiles on their faces and all my panic and frustration disappeared. They are my life, my whole world and as long as I have them I can get through anything. So I pulled myself together, calmly switched on the laptop and began to search for our new dream home.

Anyway... on a happier note I have started to decorate the house for Halloween. Pictures to follow :)