First let me say thank you to everyone who said prayers and thought good thoughts.   It’s always hard for me to ask for prayers for something so very material when there is so much real need in the world, but I do so much appreciate it.  So for the good news: It looks like we get the house! 

The counter offer had a contingency that the bank had to approve us as buyers.  No one our realtor or the seller’s realtor sees this as a problem because of our pre-approval letters from our lender.  We’ll know 100% for sure on Monday (barring any disasters that may come up during inspection) that we can begin the whole process to close on June 5th.

At first we were shocked, happy but we were starting to talk ourselves out of it, trying to protect ourselves from disappoint, then it hit us and tears of joy flowed.  There’ll be so much to do in the coming weeks, if all goes well, so I’m not planting anything in our garden space here, which is a bit odd, but I’m sure my time will be full in other ways.

Again, thanks everyone.