Another crazy week

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It seems that right now major things are happening in our lives on Thursdays.  This time it was the inspection of our house.  If I haven't mentioned it yet, we are in the process of selling our house.  On Thursday February 28th we had the home inspection.  After I got off work, I received a phone call from our realtor telling me to call her ASAP.  When we spoke, she told me we had a major problem.  They found some things during the home inspection that were going to be very costly to fix and she wasn't sure what the buyers were going to do.  Needless to say we felt very dejected.

That same night we were scheduled to have dinner with a coworker of mine.  We were meeting to discuss the possibility of us purchasing his house.  When we arrived for dinner, we immediately told them what was going on.  They are such a blessing.  They suggested that we would probably be able to work things out with the buyer and if we didn't, they were happy to wait until we found another buyer.  What a huge relief.

One of our concerns with the repairs was how much they would cost and how that would affect the adoption process.  We were feeling very attacked during this time.  I don't know if I fully believe in spiritual warfare but I was feeling a lot like I imagine Job felt.  As the weekend started, we found out the buyers were still interested as long as we took care of the problems.

On Tuesday we had another slight low.  The chimney was cleaned and inspected.  They found some cracks in the prefab plates, this was going to be another unanticipated expense.

Around this same time we had some friends offer to help with a garage sale to raise money for the adoption (no details on when yet.).  The estimates for the first part of the repairs came back lower than we had anticipated.  Then on Thursday, March 1st when they did the first part of the work, it turned out that the second part was also going to cost considerably less.

We are still feeling a little reserved in regard to what is to come but we can definitely see the light at the end of the tunnel.