Doesn't Anybody Want To Buy My House?

We have had our house for sale all summer long. There was an opportunity open up that if we sold our house we could go back to Texas. We had lots of people look at the house in the spring and early summer. Some were interested in the house, some were more interested in the barn. How is that supposed to make me feel?I decided to show you all virtual tour of our house.

This is our living room and study. We bought this piano about a year ago. My friend's mother purchased it, took it completely apart to clean it, and fix it up. After all of her work, she had the opportunity to buy a baby grand so she sold it to us for the same price she bought it. We wanted a piano, it didn't have to be a fancy one, just something for the kids to learn to play on.

We had the piano only a few months when Vanessa scratched it up. You know the wire in silk flowers, well, Baby Foofa took one and scratched every surface of the piano. I'm so grateful we bought it used.

This is our kitchen. This is what it often looks like. I try to keep it clean and usually it is but, every once in a while......This is our Texas room. My aunt gave me this couch and chair. They belonged to my grandparents before that. In fact, when my mom took my dad to meet her parents for the first time, my grandparents went out and bought this furniture before they arrived. My grandparents were trying to impress my dad. I don't know if he was impressed but, I am. We have a little sitting room at the top of our stairs. I love the built in bookshelves. We are a reading family so the bookshelves are a big plus. We are always checking the used books for sale at our local library. We are always buying books for 25 - 50 cents. The chair was my grandpa's and the rug was made by my great grandfather whom I never met. This is also our multi-cultural room with things from Mexico, Brazil, and Venezuela.
We have an extra room upstairs that is our guest room. Esteban lived here when we first moved into the house. He decided after a month or two he would rather be downstairs so he shares a room with AJ. I call this my green room.The bed is from my bed and bedspread is from my cousin. The bed frame is the frame my mom used when she was growing up. The desk in the corner where I use my sewing machine was built by my grandpa. The rocking chair in the corner is from my other grandparents. The painting on the wall was painted by me. All of my crafts are organized in the closet. It really is one of my favorite rooms in the house.

Downstairs we have the toy room. We clean it every couple of weeks but, honestly, it doesn't stay clean for very long. If you imagine all the toys all over the floor then you'll see what it usually looks like.

We also have our storage room. It is nice for the empty boxes I like to collect. We keep our food storage that we are working on building up down there. This is Ethan's room. The bookshelf was built by my grandpa. Ethan seems to enjoy having his own space. I think some nights he stays up pretty late reading. Esteban and AJ share this room. They don't seem to mind the bunk beds. I think bunk beds just part of growing up in a big family.
The girls like their room. It doesn't stay clean for very long either. This bedspread is one that my grandma made for me and my sisters when we were little girls. The girls want me to paint their room pink. I don't know how I feel about that. As you can see they like to keep Millie close to their bed.Our room has parquet wood floors. I like wood floors but this makes me feel like we are sleeping in a dance studio. You know how much Aaron likes dancing.......
Alas, as the summer progressed fewer and fewer people came to see the house. We haven't showed the house for weeks. I think the weak economy and horrible housing market has kept people from buying homes. We knew it was bad timing to sell the house but we also felt that it was right for us to give it a try.

School starts this week. Since we don't want to move the kids during the school year, we are taking the for sale signs down on today. We like the area and the people so, we can be happy here. We are fully prepared to live here happily ever after. As you can see by my tour, it's not the house that you live in that matters, it is the people and the memories that are inside.