this is a BIG DEAL!

About 3 weeks ago, Bo and I put an offer in on our first home! It was accepted, and our closing date is February 28! We could not be more thrilled. And it is even sweeter because we have seen God's hand in this from the very start.

One Monday morning at CBS I asked for prayer over our home search. I left CBS to pick up Jackson from preschool, then met our fabulous realtor, Dennis Norwood, at a house we had chosen to look at. It was not first, second, third, or even fourth on our list, but this is the house we were starting the day with.

It was THE house.

Nearly 2700 square feet, nestled on a cul-de-sac on a .96 acre wooded lot in Henrico, this is our dream house.

When we arrived at the house, Dennis informed us that he had spoken to the listing agent and that the house would be reduced $15k in the next day or so, so we made our offer at $15k below the current price.

Naturally, we expected to wait before we heard back from the bank (the house is a foreclosure), but after submitting our offer at 9 pm on a Monday, by Tuesday at 10 am, we had an answer. Amazing. And by 5 pm that evening our contract was ratified!

I did a crime search to find out if there was a significant amount of crime in the area; in the last 6 months, there have been THREE calls to the police. Three. Two for loose animals, and one for a "suspicious package" left in a driveway.

Not only that, I searched the sex offender database and found that there are no sex offenders in our neighborhood, or really anywhere nearby.

INCREDIBLE! By then I couldn't have been more convinced that God was giving us this house. I have never felt more grateful or less deserving of anything in my life!

"If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!" [Matthew 7:11]

On top of all this, our home inspection turned out to be one of the best our realtor has ever seen. God has blessed us beyond compare, and I just can't even wrap my mind around it!