Homeless Home Owners

Kevin and I have been really busy the last few days trying to get all the little projects accomplished so our home will be ready to rent hoping there wont be too much of a lapse between moving day for us and moving in day for the new tenants. We have remodeled, painted, and been fixing for what seems like an entire week. The bathroom went from a dingy greenish gray to a sparkling white, and the laundry room went from old yellowed stained paneling to a creamy color, but it all has taken plenty of time, and of course money.

It wasn't until today however, that I made a realization as we were returning from one of the countless trips to the home depot, after we move out He and I will both be homeless home owners. What an odd thought. Since we have yet to secure housing for ourselves and the dog we will be staying temporarily with Kevin's sister and her husband til we get at least one check from his new job. We will in theory be "homeless", yet still paying for our own home. It's all really just now starting to soak in, having a home has been nice, freedom to do things our way without asking permission, but it has had it's expenses as well. It will be a switch not to be at Home Depot and Lowes deciding on our dream flooring, paint color, or cabinet hardware, and I'll be a little sad not to have the garage to stow all of our great thrift store treasures for the projects that we planned on doing together, but sometimes you have to trade one thing for another.

We may be leaving behind our little 2 bedroom home, complete with a yard, and 2 car garage. But we will also leave behind yard work, all the money and time we put into updating our home, and a job that wasn't going to lead us to the places we wanted to go most. We will trade our ward family, and neighbors for our actual families. And we will trade the unanswered fertility questions for doctors appointments, and perhaps medications and surgeries, but the things that matter the most in life aren't things. Family . . . isn't it about time? Time to go back and be an auntie and uncle, be a brother and a sister, a son and a daughter, and work on adding some cousins to the mix for our neices and nephews ;)

Yes, soon we will be homeless home owners, but I'm pretty sure in the long run, we will be really grateful for making that leap of faith and having that title for just a short time in our lives.