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I’m In What?

Filed under God Type Things, Grown Up Stuff

As a kid you might hear that you are in trouble, in a great class, or in line to get your hair combed for lice by the school nurse. Well, where I (and my wife too) am is this place called escrow. That is right, we are in the process of buying a house. It’s been a long road since we first started looking at houses back in February. When we first started there were a bundle of houses that fit into our price range, but as spring came (and went) then summer came the houses we could afford became fewer and fewer, to where now I don’t think there are any.

Ours is a place in SW Dundee, and we are reciting one of our favorite phrases…we are just “holding it loosely.” This phrase originates with a pastor at church, Steve Fawver. We were in a small group with Steve, and he would suggest that we hold things loosely in regards to plans or expectations of the group. Aj and I have taken this on, in a sense, to the plans and expectations for our lives. Eeven though things continue to progress with the purchase, we are holding the timing and final outcome loosely. Even though we are in escrow, and the outcome seems to be certain, we are trying to be calm about it when the paperwork doesn’t go as quickly as we’d like it to. Even though I’m a pretty laid back guy, I can get frazzled when it comes to the timing of important things. The longer things stretch out the more stressed I become. Hold it loosely, hold it loosely, hold it loosely…and dog-gone-it, people like me!