Well if you have been with us for awhile, you know that the Frazier Frontier will be on our way to a new adventure in abut a year. Ryan is in the Coast Guard and we typically transfer every 3-4 years depending on the unit he is attached to. We have been blessed to spend the last three years and some change in Sturgeon Bay, WI. It has been a remarkable opportunity for his career and in these three years he has advanced to a BM2, we welcomed another little girl into our family, gained eight chickens (lost 2, ate 1, sold 1 (rooster), and gave the other 4 to friends to prepare our yard for selling purposes), lost our last ferret, bought a house (so we have moved twice in the last 3 years, up here and then into our new home 2 years ago).

So now we are in our last year of our tour here. We have had our ups and downs as everyone experiences in their own ways throughout life. We have stood firm in our relationships with Christ, and as a family. We have gained some new friendships, and others have teetered as happens when you move every few years. Now we are on the brink of a new adventure. We will not know until next year where we will be going, but one thing that we do know is we have a home and a mortgage that we do not want to leave behind. So we decided that now is the time to try and sell. Yes, we understand your concerns, it is early to sell, but we decided we would rather sell now and move temporarily while the market is hot hot hot; than to wait and hope the market is still good later and hope that we can sell in time. I would rather transfer with Ryan than be left here with the girls, the dog, and a mortgage. So thus, we have decided it is time.

Over the past few months we have been working diligently to get the house prepared and ready, fixing little things that needed to be fixed. We sold the chickens,  and planted grass seed, repainted the decks, fixed a door, put in more balusters on the stair rails, took down wall art, touched up paint, cleaned the carpets… etc etc etc… all those things you said you would get done eventually, finally get done when you are ready to list your house. So we have been working hard, we even did a HUGE purge! It is amazing how much you can do in a short period of time if you put your mind to it! So we got the house ready, got in touch with our realtor friend and said we were ready. He took the pictures, prepared the listing…

It hit the market July 3rd.

I knew I was feeling anxious about listing it early, we have a lot of cards in our hands and a lot of unknowns about the coming months. Where will we be transferring, if the house sells quickly where will we go, will we be able to find a rental nearby, if we cannot find a rental where do we go, what is our plan? We have a lot of questions, and a lot of those questions do not have answers. However, there is one constant in our lives, one person who DOES KNOW all of the answers to each of our questions. Anxiety, yes, mostly because I have zero control in this situation and if you know me, I like to control every aspect of my life, so sometimes leaning on and trusting the Lord in all of my unknowns can be seriously challenging for me, by far my greatest challenge in my Christian faith… but it is just that. FAITH. Maybe that is why my  life comes up with a lot of unknowns and struggles with things that I cannot control. Maybe God is CONSTANTLY trying to teach me things that I just keep “forgetting”. He is faithful, He does have a plan, He will not leave me or fail me.

He has the perfect buyer for our home already, he wouldn’t have given us the confidence and go ahead for everything to work out so smoothly to get the house listed if it wasn’t his plan. We have prayed and he continues to answer and align things for us. This is a true step of faith and trust to list so early, but we know he has big plans for us, and the first step in trusting him and moving forward to the next venture in our life is getting out from underneath our house and mortgage. The rest, well, we know he will provide for us.

This blog ended up being a bit of a rambling. It was meant to just be an informative post about what we have been up to, why the lack of blogging lately, and the official, we are selling our home and it is listed, post. However, when I started typing it just started flowing and I guess God kind of spoke through my finger tips. Honestly, I have been pretty anxious and scared, and I still am, but God has been working on giving me a peace, a strength of confidence, trust and peace as I have been relying on him and having faith.