I feel like I've been losing my joy in blogging lately.  Some of my friends here have left, and others just don't seem to post much anymore.  I'm not doing anything "homestead-y" and therefore feel out of place.  My life lately consists of trying to sell a house and see where we'll be going next, and just all the waiting, waiting, waiting.  Not much to write home about!

We did have a "potential" offer on the house, but we were essentially their 2nd choice.  They low-balled a foreclosure first, which has been accepted by the seller but is now waiting for bank approval.  I really can't see why they wouldn't get it - in this type of a situation, I would think the bank will take whatever it can get rather than lose yet more money on an empty, foreclosed house.  I'm actually not sad about this, though, because had the offer come our way, we'd have spent the month of December packing and scrambling to get ready to move (let alone we don't even know WHERE yet!!), instead of being able to just rest and be still and enjoy the beauty of the Christmas season.  And, on a purely practical note, I don't want to be moving and possibly driving long-distance in the middle of winter!!  Ugh.

So, I've more or less put all thoughts of moving aside right now.  No one else is coming for showings, obviously.  Not right now.  I do expect that will pick up again after January, but for now, this is good.  My husband has been taking another look at his current job lately.  He has days where he wishes they would fire him so he could be done with it, and others where he can step back and realize that he really doesn't have it too bad.  He's got an amazing retirement fund going right now, which I do believe can transfer to another job.  He also makes really good money (and yet, we struggle to afford to stay here...).  I guess if you looked solely at "the bottom line," it seems foolish to leave such a deal.  But, we're both tired of him working nights, they mandate so much of his overtime (he has ONE day off between now and Christmas week!!!), and overall are not very family-friendly.   I walked away from an "amazing deal" when I was finishing college - to go on a missons trip - and have never regretted that. 

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose."  - Jim Elliot