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Hello! Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Can I share with you my bittersweet weekend? I know I don't get too personal on my blog, but today I'm letting it out. Maybe this will be therapeutic for me.

Our home SOLD over the weekend.

This is a great thing. Repeat, this is a great thing. Our life will be much easier when we get settled in something more manageable. This is what I've been wishing for every single day. I'm so sick of cleaning, rearranging my schedule, picking up every little toy, turning on every light, burning every candle to make it show PERFECT! I'm sick waiting in anticipation to see if each showing was "the one". We've been so close to selling it so many times. It finally happened last night. What a relief.

I love this house. I spent six months of my life coordinating the remodel of the entire house. Every tiny detail was chosen by my hubby & I. Sadly, every dollar and more that was put into this house is lost because of the market.{kitchen ~ BEFORE}

I'm not going to continue to complain about this because we were lucky to have had plenty of good times when the market was great. And even though it's ugly, things can always be worse.

Here's the real kicker though, and I am wondering what you would do in this situation.

The buyer made an offer on our home including EVERYTHING in it! Fully furnished.....4,000 square feet of years of accumulation and...

WE DID IT.

We needed to get the deal done, it was a high pressure situation and we DID IT. It wasn't easy, I walked around my house crying making a list of what absolutely couldn't stay. I'm still so shocked and really can't even comprehend what's next. We don't even know where we're going....

Let me disclose, that this has happened before, sort of. When the market was good, we moved VERY often. Most of the time the buyers wanted some of our furniture. No big deal, that means shopping for me! And if you don't know this about me, I am obsessed with staging and decorating. I really don't get attached to furniture. You know, we would sell a couch here, a table there.....however, this sale includes EVERYTHING, with the exception of my beloved armoire (below) which I couldn't bear to give up and a short list of personal items. It's flattering really, that someone likes my taste enough to want everything!

I still don't think I truly "get" that this is really happening. The whole thing just isn't sinking in. First priority....where are we going to live?!

Second priority....get excited about having a fresh start, a clean slate, a whole house that needs to be decorated....in any way my heart desires. I don't even know where to begin. It's going to be a big project...I plan on writing about my progress here...and hope you will join me!

If this isn't BITTERSWEET....I don't know what is.

It's time to look on the bright side....and I'm ready.

At least I have my wonderful family and my armoire. ;)
Thanks for listening. I think this helped.

XOXO, Kim