As I shared on facebook today…

Now that we’ve taken the house off the market, EVERYONE wants our property. I’ve been in contact with a family who wants to lease it, since the day we decided to go that route instead of selling, and since then I’ve had people act DESPERATE for our property. I tell them all the same thing:

We’ve actually decided to lease the property instead and the lease will most likely be signed on Thursday. So unless someone can produce a solid offer with pre-approval in place for a min. of our asking price before Thursday at 9am, we will simply be hanging onto it. The property’s value is much higher then we’re asking, so we figure it won’t hurt to just sit on it and let someone else pay the mortgage for a while.

This feels really good.
We’ve known all along that we have a beautiful property here. We had hoped someone else would come along and realize it too. But lately, around here, everyone has only been interested in ONE thing and that’s to get a steal of a deal. We were offering a deal, a really good deal, but we refused to offer a ‘steal of a deal’.

So if the choices are to either sell at a loss, or hang onto it while we lease the farm in Saskatchewan, we’ll hang onto it!

Thankyouverymuch!

Is life going to be as ‘easy’ as it could have been if we had sold? Nope!
But who needs easy? I don’t need easy.
I don’t mind hard work. However, I do mind spinning my wheels and going no where!

I honestly never thought we’d be in this position. I have said for YEARS that if there was ANY way we could keep this property AND move to a larger farm, I’d do it in a HEARTBEAT but it always seemed SO impossible that no matter what way I tried to think of HOW we could do it, there just seemed to be NO way.

We simply couldn’t afford the cost of moving to the prairies unless we had the equity from the house. Unless we had the equity, the banks were not willing to work with us on a mortgage because I’m still self employed. Half our income is too “unstable”.
It doesn’t matter that we grew this business with our own hands, with no debt, and only SWEAT equity!
It doesn’t matter that we’ve shown a substantial increase in sales EVERY.SINGLE.YEAR!

Even through a recession!

Some how, it didn’t seem to matter that we’ve been with the same bank for over TWENTY years, that we’ve never defaulted on our mortgage payments, or any other payments of any kind, even if it meant working 80 hours a week just to make ends meet and put food on the table!

All that doesn’t matter.

But…
I should have known better then to think the impossible could really be 100% impossible because here we are, finally, just ONE MONTH from our moving date, ONE DAY from the day my husband takes possession of our new home and moves into it himself!

I CAN NOT WAIT!

Well, in a couple of ways I can. I’m not kidding myself here. I know leaving this beautiful province is going to be difficult. But, this beautiful province has not been very nice to use. The beauty that surrounds us every day does not pay the bills and we’re tired of working so much. What good is that beauty if you can not even find the time to enjoy it?

Really?! I can take as many beautiful photos of the beautiful surroundings as I want, but when all I can do is take my children for real quick trips to the beach every once in a while, because I have to hurry back to get my work done, what good is that?

Years ago, I used to sit on picnic blankets and read books while my children played nearby.

Years ago I spent time gardening and growing wonderful things for my family to eat.

Years ago, I adopted a rescue horse in hopes of riding, a passion and desire of mine since childhood.

Yet these past years, I’ve had no time to do any of these things.

I’m also going to miss being near family. My parents live on the Island and so does my younger sister and her husband. However, now that we are keeping our property here, I know we’ll be able to easily come back for visits. I think when you live close by, it’s quite easy to take that for granted and put off getting together. Time passes and it’s been a while since you saw one another even when you live close by!

Not to mention, being on the Island has made it almost impossible for us to visit OTHER family because our finances have been SO strained that we never had the funds to even drive across country to visit with other family. We LOVE road trips. LOVE THEM! However, with the added cost of the expensive ferry system on top of the price of gas, while we’ve been struggling just to put food on the table? It just seemed we never actually got to do a whole lot of travelling. Certainly not NEAR as much as we’d like.

In the prairies we will be right in the middle of ALL our family. Graydon’s family on one side, my family on the other. To me, that’s the best case scenario if we can’t live close to any of them. We’ve lived half our married life near one side, half our married life near the other. This is a great compromise!

I haven’t even SEEN the house we are moving into except for one photo of one room, and this photo from an ad on the internet, and a couple of photos of the outbuildings.

Ask me if I really care?

I don’t.

This house in the photo above is our new home. MY home. That’s all that matters to me.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I don’t really ‘care’, it’s just that it’s not the most important thing to me. I’m already feeling very blessed that it’s a two story, and that it has a dormer window, and that it’s 1850 square feet vs. our 1264 square feet here. It has a 2 car garage, a very large heated shop, and a large quonset (for those who don’t know, this is a very large farm outbuilding for tractors and such). It also has 15 acres. We had hoped for a lot more acreage then that, but we’re happy to have 3 times the acreage we have here.

So, that’s all I really NEED to know. Oh, believe me, I am VERY excited to see photos! My husband HAS photos, but his internet has been SO horrible that he can’t SEND me the photos! Tomorrow, he moves into our new home and soon will have the highspeed internet hooked up (yes, we made sure we could get highspeed out there. I may not mind living rural, but I do need to be able to run my business! lol) and then he can send me the photos. 🙂 Until then, I’ll let my imagination go wild.

All I need to know is that my husband saw it and checked it all out! He’s very handy and VERY particular, so I’m not concerned that I didn’t get to see it. He also knows his wife well enough after being together over 22 years to know what I can live with, and what I can’t. I told him my only ‘real’ prerequisite for this house was that it not be rat infested, that was just a joke lol but I totally 100% trust his judgement of a home for his family!

I told him all I wanted was just to finally have a home to go to!

And in one month, that’s just where I’ll be going!