This is my original post: livealifeyoulove.com/inspire_posts/magic-is-all-around-me/

Update: 5 months went by, so, so slowly it seemed, as we diligently looked in over 60 homes for sale and searched the internet daily for new listings. We considered raw land, not really wanting to build from scratch, but just not finding anything even close to what we really wanted.

We nearly bid on a barndominium, thinking that we could live there and build our dream home. Also, we began bidding on a home way, way over what we had originally intended to spend, until on the same day I realized that what appealed to me the most about that house was that we could move into it easily without downsizing or even painting – but I didn’t love it. My husband fell in love with a piece of raw land (which was priced way over market value). People told us they had looked for three, five, even 10 YEARS before they’d found their lovely homes.

Unexpectedly, the landlord where we were renting gave us a week and a half notice that she was moving back into her house (and as our ROOMMATE if we couldn’t make other arrangements). Not only could we not find another rental in the town we wanted to live in, we couldn’t even find an available storage unit! Two days before we came back to our home (in the desert) to begin packing and to put it on the market, we went into a beautiful, well-built home on a Sunday afternoon. It had many of the features on our “dream home” list, it was in our price range, near the town we want to be in and even closer to the airport my husband needs for work! The home had some features I had on my “do not want” list, but at the end of my “dream home list” I had added, “this, or something better”. (I had pinned pictures on Pinterest in a file called “house to be” & it is amazing how many of the features in this particular house are in that file!) We have a signed contract to close on our 30th wedding anniversary, November 19. This, or something better, indeed!