So last week, we officially handed over our keys to our home on Bell Street. As a family, we went through a wave of emotions; stress, sadness, relief, and exhaustion.
As we were packing, and each room was becoming more and more bare, I just kept saying “thank you” to our home. With tears in my eyes and my voice cracking, I was so thankful for how good our home had been to us over the years. We were married, hosted countless family gatherings, brought our baby girl Edith home, and were a family of three (+3 dogs) that lived so comfortably for so many years… that it hurts to type this. It hurts because that perfect little house, that home on Bell Street, is no longer ours.
Thank you to our home on Bell Street. For giving us shelter and keeping us safe. For holding all our happiness and trials within your walls, embracing all we had to give. Thank you for giving us a safe haven to call ours, a place to kick our shoes off and spread our toes. All the dog paws that scurried across your wood floors and all the food spatter all over your walls. For being there to welcome our baby girl home, and keeping her safe and comforted.
The hardest transition has been for Edie, our baby girl. She is almost two and our home is all she’s ever known. She doesn’t understand why we can’t just go home, and why, when I say “Let’s go to the park!” we can’t just walk out of front door and down the street to our beloved neighborhood stomping grounds. I’m not going to lie, it has broken my heart to pieces… or I should say into more pieces than it already was in from just my own emotional loss of having to say goodbye.
You might be asking, why did we say goodbye? I wrote another blog post here where you can read more, but in a nutshell, we sold because it gave us the gift of equity so I could stay home with our little girl. It is giving us money to pay off some bills (a lot are medical bills when I got sick while pregnant, you can read more about that here), and is giving us a significant down payment for a new home that will half our mortgage payment and help us be more comfortable.
So now, we are currently living in my mother-in-law Charly’s basement, living the dream. But in all honesty, it’s a huge blessing that she allowed us to move in. We are a lot to take on, the three of us plus two dogs (we had to say goodbye to our older dachshund Ted a few months ago).
We are on the house hunt now, but are on a tight budget with me staying home with our Edie girl and living on one income. It’s something that is both really important to us, both Justin and I, that I get the opportunity to stay home. I will say at this moment, Edie is entering the terrible twos and it’s been a rough couple days, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
Want to go on a house hunt with us? Follow us @homewithedith on Instagram for the latest posts and videos of homes we are touring. We are looking everywhere to auction houses, foreclosures, for sale by owner, and houses just listed through MLS. We are excited for the next big adventure, and are hopeful for what the future may hold.
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