Life has been feeling very overwhelming lately. As much as we are thrilled that our house sold and those conditions were ideal, this has only reminded us of the pressure to find a new place to live here. We have a pre-approval from one lender here, but we are still waiting on RBC because we might be able to get a better interest rate with them. We decided to look at a few houses this weekend just to see what was out there. We found one that we liked. It is not perfect, but it has a lot all the things that were non-negotiable and even a lot of the things that we wanted! It's in our price range (barely, it only makes me want to throw up to see what it was worth even one year ago) but we have no guarantee that we will get this house, even if we offer more than asking price. Even if we offer more than we think it's currently worth based on recently sold houses, we might still not get it! This is the extremely frustrating thing! Obviously it is our choice not to overpay and just to let this one pass by if we're outbid, but then we have no guarantee that another house that works for us as well as this one will come along (and we'll be in the same boat again anyway, feeling pressure to overpay). We're not in a time crunch right now, but we're going away soon for a week and a half (little did I know that it would be prime house hunting time, I guess I should have thought it through) and by the time we get back we will be in a time crunch. I think what will happen is if we just can't buy a house in the time frame we have, then we will just have to go back to renting. We are still looking at the possibility of renting a different house and that does come with lots of different advantages, but it also kind of changes our possibilities of a future here. Why does this decision have to have such far-reaching consequences! I need to spend more time praying about this and just making peace with the fact that there is much we can't control and much of what happens to us will be out of our hands. So hard to accept!
The kids are doing well! We just did a camp out in our backyard to see how they will do when we actually go camping in July, and it was better than last year's attempt! They were all asleep between 10:30 and 11, although Nathan went inside with Brian at 5am because he was cold (Lynsey soon followed). Adam made it through until 7, though! I thought he might be the hardiest of them all:). Life sure is hard with him some days, and when we are both feeling so much stress and pressure over the housing situation, patience is very thin. School is winding down which is really good, I could use a break from the routine as could the kids. Our trip up north is coming up really quickly which is exciting and stressful all at the same time. Hopefully it's a relaxing time!
I will sign off now, as my head is a bit too stressed to really think too clearly right now! We'll submit our offer on Wednesday and they will review the offers that evening and let people know. What an insane market to buy a house in, I can't tell you how much I hate it. But, it's our choice to live here so I won't complain too much! We are just very much out of our comfort zone, which is I guess what we need now and then:-S.
