The biggest reason the Facebook fast was necessary is that it brought clarity and peace for a difficult decision…The Tyndalls are Moving!!

Flashback:

My husband threw a curveball last summer that he wanted to heavily pursue moving.  He felt we could get the best investment for our house now and that we would regret it five years from now when the market is not as great if we stayed.  He has always dreamed of living on an acre and he felt the time was right to pursue it.

Cue panic attacks from me.  Could we afford it?  What about the inconvenience? The drive time?  The increased distance means time away from our families and more time driving.  We already purchased a St. Lucia trip and other trips that could not be moved and would decrease our savings…I did not want the change.  We fought so hard about it that I thought we would divorce.  He moved forward with a call to a realtor and began boxing things and requiring we set back a portion of our paycheck for the new house…I had other plans for that money so it turned into a war.  A big war.  I questioned everything.  But after a week of silence we recommitted to doing this life together and holding off on moving for now.  We asked the realtor to help us prepare the house for the future, send us listings from a nearby city, but we would wait and pray about it…that was in September and we stuck to our word.  We did not a timeline, but we prayed to the one who did.  We had our eye on a budget and two home choices: a custom built one further out in a city thirty minutes away or a ready made one fifteen minutes away.  We waited and the more we waited the more it seemed the further city had more to offer us.

We talked to people that lived there and people that we trusted and I began to feel more at peace with our decision, but the prices kept going up.  It began to make more sense to build.  My husband called the company Thursday 2/12 to ask about starting the process and he informed us prices were going up in a week and we could buy one that was already being built or wait two months until the next phase at a much higher cost.  We knew the model home we wanted and they only had one for sale.  We agreed to go see it, but only take it if it had a three car garage, indoor and outdoor fireplace, hard wood floors and a brick color that we loved.  Almost impossible desires and these were all major upgrades and not likely to all be there.  We went on Saturday 2/14 and laughed when every single one of them was being built in this house…crazy how God created our home and was already building it.  When we arrived, our son said “Hi home” and it was on a street called Riverside which is the street I spent my college years on and has always been special to me (I want to write a book called “Just another day on Riverside”..true story…that name has always stuck with me.

Other cars were looking at this house too so we thought it may be a long shot that it is still there. We were also not sure what we needed to pay up front and the color choices inside…would we have any say? Nathan called the sales agent after church and our realtor and the guy said he could hold it for us to come look at it.  We left that afternoon at 2 and had bought a house by five on 2/15.

Our current house was on the market by 2/20 and we have had at least six showings in two days and are boxing this place as we speak.  Our new home will be built by May and we will move in his grandmother’s vacant house if this one sells soon like we hope.

Cue today:

All this happened in the last thirty days.  I needed to be unplugged to have time for it all and to be at peace with it.  I know God was preparing me for these changes.  So much has worked out beyond my wildest expectations and is a seal that God hears prayers and His timing is perfect.   I will post more soon about my love of the house we are selling.  It is really hard to leave, but needed.