IF (x2)

What a ride, and yes, I am fully aware that the ride is not over yet. It has been a busy day at the Rietveld home (er--the Bullen home) today. I have talked to my parents about financing regarding the offer we had to rescind, the mortgage broker, our realtor back home, a different realtor back home, our realtor here, and then our realtor back home a few more times. My voice is growing weary, as is my poor head.

Last I updated we had to not accept the counter offer on my dream little home as we had to remove condition of selling our home and we just couldn't do that not knowing how long our house is going to drag on for. If we had signed, and not sold our house come possession, we could have lost our sizeable deposit as well as been sued for breach of contract (and probably lost both houses). However, since my brother and Paige listed AND sold their home in two days as of yesterday, they no longer need my parents to co-sign for them freeing them up to co-sign for us... and to lift the condition of selling our home off! Worst case scenario this way is that after two more months here if our house doesn't sell, we may have to carry two mortgages until it does. Definitely not as scary! (Although the thought of that still sends shivers down my spine). Anyway, we were pre-approved with my parents on and we went ahead and put the offer back to them (it still wasn't dead yet: our realtor told them we were just looking into some financing options to buy us time, knowing how much we wanted it and were trying to sell our home! So, that was nice to still have on the table.) But we had to add in subject to financing (by next Fri.) to cover our offer... and we still haven't heard back yet! My mind is racing around wondering if they are going to sign off on it and say we've conditionally bought their home or not! I go from imagining where I'm going to put all our stuff in the house to thinking about what other houses we will have to go look at, knowing that nothing we look at will sit in my heart the way this one does. So, tomorrow morning--oh wait! thanks to insomnia and an overactive mind, that's today!--I will call and ask what's going on. You'd think I'd be learning patience through this all, but I am an incredibly challenged learner in that area.

On a side-note here, are you the type of eater that eats a little bit of everything at once and likes things to be balanced or do you like to eat your least favourite thing and then work up to your favourite? (I am the former, and Dan is the latter--drives me crazy!) But, I do believe that I see how is mind-set is working on that one as I continue on in my lengthy recount of our real-estate goings on. (And I do apologize to you all that I haven't done anything half entertaining or stimulating lately... I know all this chat gets a bit tedious, but I do need to purge it out somehow. You're it, I'm afraid). Aaaaanyway, on to my saving my favourite for last theory...

Our Cochrane house sold conditionally this evening. : ) : ) : ) They have until next Friday to have the house inspection done and the financing condition removed, then it's a done-deal. Possession is set for Nov. 17th, which works out well if we get this house here, as although they wrote up possession of Nov. 30 for us (to give us time to sell our house), they are moving to Ontario the end of October and the house will be vacant and they are willing to let us go in early!! : ) So, we actually could have overlap in our favour. IF they accept our offer and IF our conditional sale goes through.

Two very big IFs that stand in the way of me and sleep tonight. I am ecstatic, just too spent to let myself revel in it. Or, maybe just too afraid to believe that it all could work out. I firmly believe everything happens in the right time and God is guiding us through this all. I just need to learn to lean back more in that promise. So many lessons for me yet to learn, although I've been taught them again and again!