The Mobile Home Woman

It’s official! They accepted our offer! I can’t believe it!

It was a LONG night and day… but we found out late this afternoon…. and we have just been so EXCITED all evening long!!!!

Tomorrow we have to go and get a statement of funds and a check for 10% earnest money. And then we have 17 hundred forms to fill out.

Oh my gosh!!! There are a a zillion things going through our minds. I almost just can’t think straight… I think we’re going to just take things one day at a time!

Once we are done with all the paperwork, we will have to make one more inspection of the plumbing once they de-winterize the place. Not really worried about that, should be a quick and easy thing. Everything looked fine last week, but they wouldn’t de-winterize the place until there was an accepted offer. That’s fine…. We just get to go back out to the house!! Yah!

This has been a crazy two months and I’m so thankful for all the friends and readers and everyone that has been following along! Your prayers, comments, notes, emails, texts and calls have kept us on the straight and positive road to making this dream come true!!! It has meant so much to us!!! Thank you!

Oh boy, it’s going to be a wild year coming up!!! So many things to do and plan and plot and all! We are going to have a crazy couple weeks as we try and get as much done as we can with our companies and such, clients, etc., so that we can take a little time off and really concentrate on making our new homestead into our forever home!!! This is just so wonderful on so many levels. I just can’t believe it’s actually happening!

And don’t worry… I just don’t know what we will do with the Moby! Everyone keeps asking!!! We love the Moby and like we said, we are going to look into a few options. She will not just get abandoned or anything like that. She’s going to either be moved out to the farm, or she’s going to have a new family in her… we’ll just have to see how it goes. I’m mostly worried that at 32+ years old… she just might not be structurally sound to move. We will get an estimate and appraisal of the work and cost and go from there. We would love to keep her, because the market is such, we’ll never get what we put into her, out. She would be a great extra guest house, or even potentially rented out, who knows!!! All we know is that she is a part of the family and we will find out what we can do!!

Oh boy! Crazy time, stay tuned!!!!!! It’s going to be a crazy year!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, we’re still waiting.

Waiting for them to say yes to our 3rd offer.

Jeff, our realtor friend, says it’s good. If they didn’t like it, they would have probably come back a lot faster, like they did the first 2 offers with a counter offer. He says it’s a bank and they can move very slowly when they want to.

Still… the waiting is just SOOOOOO hard on us all! Maggie keeps asking me quietly about every hour if I have heard and I have to say, no, not yet…. and she just nods and quietly goes off to wait a little more. We went and got some of the paint color books to look at paint colors for the rooms and all, and that helped some. The weather is actually getting a little nice out, so we’ve been in and outside, just kind of passing the time. Got to go to the office store and post office in a bit… I sure hope we know SOMETHING by this evening. Their realtor said they wanted to get this wrapped up YESTERDAY…. so…. who knows what is up.

Just praying and hoping and wishing and all that stuff.

Thanks SOOOOO much to everyone that has been calling and emailing and txting and waiting and hoping along with us. I feel like we’re birthing a baby! A big 3 acre baby! We’ve come so far… tomorrow will be two months to the day that we first saw OUR FARM…. (still hanging in there with the positive visualization!!!) and tonight is the night that it landed on our laps and I told Maggie and she said, “Mom, let’s got out there tomorrow….”

And we did.

If anything, this has been a wonderful ride and shows me that sometimes you have to just drop everything and go on a ride to see a little hobby farm when it’s not even in your plans. Life is like that. You know, I could have just said, “Oh, no, nice, but well, we’re thinking this is another year or two away in our 5 year goal. I have stuff to do… blah blah blah.” But something in the twinkle in Maggie’s eye, I just knew we had to go look and once we got there, it was love at first sight.

It’s just gotta happen. It’s so meant to be.

Keep hoping folks…. it’s going to be a long day!!!!

Sherri, Maggie and Jessy……