Monday, August 06, 2007

The Old House

As you know people moving face many challenges, the biggest one to me is dealing with the old house. I've moved out and on with my life and I hate to have to go back to the old place to clean, and pack up all the old stuff (trash and Junk) that wasn't allowed to be thrown away. I spent thurs, fri, and Sat over there doing stuff, like scraping old windows, cleaning the place where the washer and dryer once sat (yuck). There was however one unbelievable event that transpired on sat. Friday night Nate put the for sale by owner sign out, and while we were there working on sat, a husband and wife stopped by to ask us about the house. To make a long story short, the man's mother who now lives with he and his wife, grew up in that house. The man's mother lived there till she married and moved out of the house, so his grandparents lived there till they sold the house to my in laws. My house has an incredible history of owners. These people thta came by were the original family who sold it to my in laws, so that Nate and his siblings were mostly raised there, then the Elmers who have a son that is still Nates best friend and his sister who is in my sidebar as one of my friends (Fritz files) rented it for a year before my in laws sold it to some people named Pollard, who their daughter after being raised there became one of my close friends, then her parents sold the house to us, so that we had the chance to raise our boys in the same house their dad grew up in, (same wallpaper in Austins room that was there when Nate was a boy), now we are trying to sell the house back to the original owners, Toccoa really is a small world. I hope you followed all that, because it really is an amazing story. We are waiting to here back from them tonight, they made us an offer last night and have to meet with their banker to see if they can be approved. I don't know if this will work out or not, but I sure hope so, for one thing, it would be fantastic to have had our house on the market for a day and a half, and also I would feel so happy to know that this couples mother would spend her remainning days in her childhood home. We love the house, it has sentimental value to us as well for a number of reasons and I think this would be a perfect ending to this chapter in our lives. Boy my sentence structure stinks, but I'm leaving it as is.

3 comments:

Jacqueline said...

Are you kidding me?! That is crazy. At this point I'm just keepin' my fingers crossed you don't find out you all intermarried somehow and are all really brothers and sisters and cousins and stuff!

Seriously, I'm with you sister on having the life of the house come full circle. Too cool.

Tia Lynn said...

That is beautiful. I still have dreams about the house I grew up in. I would think for an elderly woman, spending their final days in the place of their beginning would be so meaningful. I hope it works out, too. :)

Christy Fritz said...

absolutely amazing... i think it's great! and i LOVED living in that house.