Big News ... We Are Holding Thumbs !!!

It's feels like forever since I updated but it really wasn't too long ago but I have been cleaning my house like a daemon for weeks now to get it ready to go on the market and I really feel like I have done little else but anyway, it's ready and believe it or not, our little house, our first house in America went on the market yesterday. Our neighborhood is having an open house on all the properties for sale in Weddington Ridge tomorrow and we are hoping to get in on that even though we really aren't completely ready, our Realtor couldn't get everything done by the close of weekend but said he is happy for us to go ahead and do it ourselves so we will see.

It doesn't look good that both houses on either side of us are up for sale but the house on our right is a couple that got transferred away work wise and the other side there is an elderly couple, he just retired so they are moving back to family in PA, they will really be missed !!! Anyway we all have the same house plan with a few differences so I don't know this could be a good or a bad thing, I guess only time will tell so please hold thumbs for us.

Now the more exciting news is we contracted to build a house last weekend, it is on a contingency which they really do not do anymore in this market the way it is a the moment, what that means is that we have 120 days to sell our house before we could lose the lot (plot) that we have chosen in the new neighborhood that we are moving to. 120 Days in this market really isn't long but we are really hoping and praying things happen for us.

The new house is a lot bigger and better designed than our current house, the house we are in now is about 2300 square feet, the new house is about 3800 square feet so it is a lot bigger. What is more it feels bigger because the foyer and the family room are both two story which means there is no second floor above them, we totally love that feature although it does not come without challenges but we will see.

Downstairs the house has a Dining Room, A Study, an open plan Kitchen, Kitchen Nook and Family Room, a Powder Room, A Laundry and a nice size Master Bedroom and Bathroom, oh and there is a Mud Room too.

Upstairs there are 3 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, A Bonus Room / Media Room and a Playroom. Yep Jade will be upstairs and us downstairs, that will be my first worry but everyone that has it this way totally loves it so we will see.

We did not get a cul de sac lot like we would have liked but hopefully the lot we have chosen will allow for safe play outside. The lot is a basement lot although we are not building a basement, this means that our house will be built on a Tall Crawl or High Crawl Space, difficult to explain but it takes the place of a basement, wish we could have done the basement but really it would have been too much at this stage. How this does make a difference though is that we do not walk out of our back door into our back yard, it walks out onto a nice size deck which is about 14 feet in the air, this should really be pretty since our back yard looks into the woods ... well not really woods but a buffer of thickish trees between us and the houses on the road behind us, still it looks like woods and there is a little creek that runs through the trees, a bit far for us to get to easier, or me anyway, too scared of snakes and spiders etc.

So yeah that's the exciting news, it's about 15 minutes from where we currently live in the town on Waxhaw which is still Charlotte but we move out of Mecklenberg County into Union County which means better tax rates ... and out of Matthews into Waxhaw, I know it's confusing :-)

So hold thumbs for us that our house sells ... oh regarding Jades schooling, she will still go to Matthews in the Fall and she should finish most of her year there before going to Grade 1 at a school closer to our house. So until we move she will catch the bus and after that for the last few months I will have to fetch and carry her but that should be ok, Dave can take her to school since his work is close by and I can collect her, it should work out fine. Yep this does mean a longer commute to work for Dave and I am sure he will complain a bit when the time comes but it really is a beautiful area and is very up and coming. We were more central where we are now and that will be a change but we wanted a home we could live in for the next 10 years or so and be happy there and I hope Lawson in Waxhaw will be that home.

It has beautiful amenities, wonderful pool and playground at the clubhouse, includes a gym area and tennis courts. The walking trails are pretty too, I really hope we are happy there but first we need to sell this house so please keep us in your prayers.

Ok well it's been a very long week, I did a camp this entire week which meant early mornings for Jade and I, something we really weren't used to anymore, anyway we survived thank Heavens. Next week we have the design center for our new house, yeah I know it's awful to be picking all those options when you don't even know if your current house is going to sell but we are off to chose our carpets, our hardwood floors, cabinets and hardware and pain color and so so so much more. This will be Wednesday morning and Thursday we are going to walk the lot with our builder so another busy week ahead of us.

So for now we are off to the pool to relax, it's been a long long time since we could take a Saturday off :-) hopefully the weather will hold and there will be no thunderstorms this afternoon.



This is a picture of Dave putting the sold sign on our lot ... sorry it is so blur but it had just started raining and we didn't take our camera with us so this was just taken on one of our cell phones ... pity !!! Anyway it captured the moment all the same.