We rushed and hurried and did all the things to prepare to sell our house.  The overwhelming to do list of repairs mostly got done. After A LOT of work, we got our house on the market.  40+ boxes were packed.  Furniture was donated and sold.  Much of the interior of the house was painted.  

Once we were finished, it was nearly unrecognizable from what it typically looks like day to day.  The kids (all of whom lived there their entire lives) didn’t recognize our house in the showing pictures. 🙂

We were in the home stretch of getting the house ready. We had about a week left until it went on the market.

A bit of disaster struck right as we were about to move out and begin staying with Chris’s Mom…

we got Covid. 

Well, some of us did. 

I suppose there’s never a good time to get a disease that causes those who get it to quarantine from the rest of the house, but this was really tricky.  We were rushing to prepare for selling the house, one member of the family got covid, then there was a snowstorm (in our house that equaled lots of shoveling), there was 2 snow days off from school (read: kids unexpectedly home and needing attention on days we needed for productivity) and then another family member got covid.  Vendors were coming to do the last of the home prep and we had to warn them about the quarantine. Somehow we got through it all. 

Then add in moving to another home and rushing to daily play practices for the kids as they prepared for a performance.  Luckily the quarantines ended right before the play performance.

All this to say, life felt hard. 

We were so lucky to be moving in with Chris’s Mom though because as soon as the house was set to ‘coming soon’ the showings were getting scheduled.  It would have been really challenging to be living at home through so many showings. The kids would have felt really disrupted so it was much smoother to be staying somewhere else.  More than 40 showings were set up in the first weekend (Friday through Monday).  We initially were excited, then worried as no offers were coming in.

The actual selling of the house (or finding a buyer) did go smoothly in that we had multiple offers come in by Monday evening.

The best offer was over our asking price by a fair amount but also had a quick close. We knew it would be a challenge to empty a house we’d been living in for 17 years at a quick turnaround, but we accepted it and got to work (again).

Sometimes in life you have to walk through hard things to be able to do cool things. This felt like one of those times. (Don’t worry – fun blog posts will be coming too!)