A Home for Little
Well, it looks like we have had a successful house hunt again this year! On Saturday morning we looked at about 6 houses, and ended up making an offer on the first one we looked at (that day). It is a single story, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, traditional style house. It needs a little work, but it isn’t so much when compared to what needed to be done in our first house! No crazy 80’s wallpaper to strip or sandstone tiles in the bathrooms at least. 
It has panelling in the living room, so M will be busy painting that and the bedrooms (plain white walls right now) since I can’t help paint. Otherwise it seems to be in pretty good condition – new carpet, new flooring in the kitchen, cabinets in good condition, etc. The people who are selling the house are the original owners, so it has been well cared for over the past 20 years or so.
We still have numerous things to accomplish between now and May 19th (scheduled closing date) including the home inspection next Monday and getting final approval on our financing. It doesn’t appear that there will be anything major to hold us up, but you never know. Please continue to pray that if this is supposed to be our house then everything will go smoothly.
Amongst the stresses of looking for a house, I have been struggling with and praying through some faith issues in the area of our “me not working” budget. All of the houses we have liked and considered fell into what we could afford under our new budget, but this house is significantly lower in our price range than the other one we made an offer on, so there should be a little more wiggle room financially. God is faithful to hear and answer our prayers when we put our trust in him!
Bravo, GOD!