Our First Home

Auctioning our First Home:

Today was a much harder day than I had ever anticipated.  We knew it was inevitable, and we knew it would be today, but it was still really hard.   Being the negative person that I am, I can't focus on the 'we are going to get better from here' and instead find myself focusing on the 'what I wish it should have been.'

Today our first home, our Coppercrest house, was auctioned.

See, last fall we came to a crossroad in our lives.  We decided that paying two mortgages for 3 years was just about as much as we could take.  Combined with demon tenants, a lousy housing market, and an even lousier economy, the $80k invested in 36 short months was too much.  So we sought legal advice, hired our lawyer, and pursued help from the bank.  Most of you know the story from here...the bank could care less about our house or our little family.  Their bottom line was so important they didn't even bother to tell us that our request for help had been denied.  In fact, we found out about the auction via a letter - not through any of the communication we so carefully put together to try to help them understand.

So here we are - waiting to see how much someone paid for our home.  Our brand new wood floors, paint, fence, patio, roof, water heater, and AIR CONDITIONER...probably sold for pennies on the dollar.  Our first home, our first dreams, bring home both our fur-babies, our first neighbors; all gone with the words "SOLD - to the highest bidder."  It makes me sad, makes me regret moving, makes me regret buying the darn thing in the first place.  Patrick says this is just the beginning of a better journey - an ending to a really hard chapter in our lives.

I still grieve all that could have been.

Here are a few of my very favorite memories...

Our neighbors - you guys are THE BEST. We miss you soooo much!

The parties we would host...and then hang out on the front porch until the wee hours of the morning!

Our first house blessing- - Mom prayed over it and us with all our family and friends.  It was such a special day - January 2007

Hurricane Ike destroyed our house, but we rebuilt with said awesome neighbors. (and notice the pile of debris in our front lawn? we used that for kindling our fires during the entire next year's parties on the driveway!)

We will miss you 1334 Coppercrest...