The Lucky House

This week has already been nuts.  I am dealing with a thousand things at work, and yesterday we just found out that we now have a vacation home in Augusta, GA (AKA the house we built last year, is rented currently, and the renters are vacating Feb. 14th) So with that said an added stress has been added to our lives of carrying two mortgages until we sell this baby (sad face).  I know what you are thinking this is not the optimistic Nicole that is normally here on this blog.  Not necessarily the case because everything in life happens for a reason and luckily John and I were always prepared for this to happen.  Thank goodness.  I think when things come up in life unexpectedly  it truly puts things in perspective.  I have never been so happy to have John come home last night, open up a bottle wine, throw a little Van Morrison, tilt our head back and dance in the kitchen, and enjoy each other.  That turned everything around, and those moments are what life and being married are all about. 

So this too shall pass, and I will continue to have a positive outlook, and would ask everyone to start saying prayers this very second that we will sell this house.  I am kind of sad to say that at the same time, because the house we lived in for only 8 months is so so so special to John and I.  When those beams and boards were barely put together that is where John proposed to me.  We picked out everything we wanted for that house.  We had so many awesome memories in the short time we were there from bringing Palin home, to planning our wedding, to cozy nights by the fire place, to killing my first outdoor plants (I have and will likely never be a green thumb, sorry mom).  I feel like that house is lucky, and therefore I am going to instruct our real estate agent to sell on that.  I can picture her telling the story now " The couple that built this house were blissfully in love, and got engaged in this very spot so we call this the lucky house"  You know they say in sales it is about painting the right picture.  Hopefully it will remain the "lucky house" for us, and not the place we had great memories but took a bath on!