Waiting...

We are the new owners of an old house. Yay! Now we just have to sit patiently and wait for the old owner to move out. We should have a vacant house sometime around the 10th of March which oddly enough is our 10th wedding anniversary. What a wonderful way to begin the next 10 years! I'm full of excited and sad feelings. We met the wonderful former owner of our home at the closing and she has graciously offered to show us how to use the wood stove to get the right heat from it for cooking or keeping the house warm. She added propane ($600 from her own pocket) to the tank to make sure we would be warm. She just seems like a fantastic Christian woman and I'd rather be learning from her, side by side, than "pushing" her out of her home of the last 40 years. But she's ready to move on. Still, I don't envy her the emotions she'll feel when she pulls that door closed for the last time, or that moment as the house slips out of view on the last drive away. Though we were only in our Detroit home for 5 years, we made a lot of memories and some do bring a few tears with remembrance.