buying and selling a home - argh!

We are in the process of selling the home we have lived in for over 24 years. I thought it was going to be tough because of the down housing market...boy was I wrong!

It is tough because our humble little house was more than a 4 bedroom 2 bath in the suburbs of Dallas - it was a home of love/tears/sleepless nights/unspeakable joy!

It was in this home that we raised 3 great kids, have buried countless beloved family pets in the backyard, laughed and cried, applied band-aids to scrapped knees and broken hearts, survived puberty and "first" car accidents, mourned the loss of a loving Grandpa and a one of a kind Mema.

From here we said good-bye to 3 young adults - with their cars packed with all their earthly belonging as they went off to make their own way.

We've battled cancer, and liver disease, the mysterious loss of vision in the eye of a 4 year old little boy, endured monthly infusions of gamma-globulin from age 5-13 in order to fight off infections that could have taken a life, dibilitating migraines, battled MRSA staph, the early on-set on rheumatoid arthritis...I could go on and on.

Selling our home is the closing of countless chapters in our family story.

The good news is...it is not the wood, windows, brick and glass that make this a home..it is the stuff of our hearts that made this a place I shall always treasure ..thankfully this will go with us no matter our address.