I owe you lovely readers two very boring, but important posts. In my update post yesterday I promised to bring you up to speed on our insurance situation as well as my weight loss situation. I was going to break these strictly educational posts into two posts for you, but figured why not knock the not so fun stuff out all in one post. How many times can I use the word post in one sentence!!??? So buckle your seat belts, your in for a bumpy and informative ride!
Let's start with the insurance. So for a bit of a recap, we are lucky enough to have discovered, at the start of this journey, that we had fertility coverage. This is a rarity, especially here in Texas. The reason we have this amazing coverage is my company happens to be based out of New Jersey and there they have an AWESOME state mandate that fertility coverage is a must. How cool are New Jerseyans!??? And I'm not just saying that because I know a pretty good group of them. :) In full disclosure we were covered by Blue Cross Blue Shield. The one catch we did have was once we entered the realm of IVF, a good chunk of the procedures we had to pay for out of pocket and then file for reimbursement. It was nice to even have the reimbursement option, but was difficult to scrounge up the loot time after time to prepay for the procedures. In January my company changed providers and now we are covered by Aetna. With Aetna we faced the same situation about having to pay out of pocket and then submit for reimbursement. However, they dropped a bomb on us when they informed us we only have 4 attempts, IN A LIFETIME, to try our hand in the fertility treatment world. Talk about a deadline! And at the time it felt like such a death sentence. All I could focus on was if we don't get pregnant in these next 4 attempts, that's it, we are done and how could that be!!!??? But if you read yesterday's post you can imagine I'm in a much better place now. And I am deciding to just be grateful at the insurance coverage we've been given thus far. There are so many folks that aren't that blessed. Also, as I mentioned yesterday, insurance or no insurance, won't change our outcome here. This is still so completely out of our hands it's silly to dwell on what could be. So in January we used our 1st attempt and were unsuccessful. We were left with 6 frozen embryos and deciding when to do our next transfer. While talking things through with our Dr. we were further educated on just how these 4 attempts work.
The breakdown goes a bit like this. There is no differentiation, as far as insurance goes, between a full blown IVF and a FET (frozen embryo transfer). But there is a differentiation, a HUGE differentiation, like a $17,600 differentiation! Please don't quote me on this, but I believe the out of pocket costs for the IVF can run approx. $20K. A FET runs about $2400. Long story short, we don't want to use our insurance coverage on the $2400 FETs when we would prefer to use those attempts to cover the $20K IVF. Additionally, the insurance won't cover another IVF until you are down to 2 frozen embryos. If you'll remember, we currently have 6!!!!! So what does that mean for us??? It means we will be paying out of pocket for the next 2 FETs in order to get our frozen embryo counts down to 2 and be able to have insurance pay for the next IVF. WHEW, are you still with me????? Essentially the 4 attempt run gets stretched into way more attempts, which is good news. However, we are coming out of pocket WAY more money than anticipated. Now don't get me wrong, if I had to select a way to spend my money, trying to have a family would be a great reason. But at the end of the day, there is no guarantee that any of these attempts will work. CLEARLY. So at what point are we just wasting, for lack of a better word, our time and money on something that might not be in the cards for us? That is the question and what I continue to pray on. I am definitely not ready to give up on my dream of having a family with Vance, but I have come to a place of realization that life will be okay if a family doesn't happen for us. Actually, life will be more than okay, I have absolute faith in that. So for now we give this next cycle (next week) a go and just keep praying that His will be done. In the mean time I keep praying and working through the process of figuring out just when enough is enough. And who knows how long that will take, but I have faith He is showing us the way...
Ready for something a little lighter????? No pun intended. In one of my last posts from last year I talked about giving Gluten free living a whirl. I had gotten blood work done and the results showed I actually didn't have a Gluten allergy at all. The two weeks I did spend eating Gluten free were difficult, but I did feel better. But lets be honest, if I don't have to give up things like bread and pasta, I'm not going to voluntarily! At the ripe age of 30, I think I know me pretty well and bread and pasta are just part of who I am. I've talked about my struggle with weight here before and it's been a long one. In February I came across a Groupon for a boxing class. The place was called Pink Glove Boxing. A friend had bought the Groupon and had attended the class and loved it, so I thought what the heck, why not! After one class I was hooked!!! The class is fun, empowering, a great workout and did I mention FUN!? It's all ladies and I have made some great new friends! On several occasions I have showed up when I didn't want to just to not let them down. Talk about a built in motivation team! A couple weeks in, our trainer mentioned she was going to start the Advocare 24 day challenge. I knew nothing about Advocare, nothing about what the challenge entailed, but I knew I was on board to challenge myself and maybe jump start some weight loss. And that's exactly what it did. Unfortunately I came down with a major bug last week and had to head to the Dr. In true fashion, the first thing they asked me to do was step on the scale. I didn't really even pay attention to the number as I was focusing on just trying to breathe (sinus infection, etc). However, once the Dr. walked in and started reading through the nurses notes, she yelled, "Hey!!! You lost 16lbs!". The celebration was brief due to feeling like I was dying, but I was so proud and that's something I haven't felt in regards to weight loss in a LONG time. More importantly, it has pushed me to do more. I've noticed me making better eating decisions and just being overall my aware of what I am putting into my mouth. For instance, last night we grabbed dinner at Pluckers for Vance's birthday. So I made sure I had a meal replacement shake for breakfast and fairly healthy lunch and snacks. That is something I never concerned myself with before. It may seem small, but this is a BIG step forward for me.
So there you have it. You have officially been brought up to speed in the whole story. The 16 lbs allowed me to hit my first weight loss goal and I have already started working on my next one, another 15 lbs. I will keep you updated on that front as well. Thanks again for lending me your ears and your hearts.
Bye for now!
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
A New Found Outlook on Fertility
I just spent the last hour or so re-reading my blog posts from start to finish. I'm a rather wordy little not so little lady. My last post was about 10 months ago. A lot has happened in those 10 months. To pick up where we left off, we are now in the new not so new house and settling in all too well. I think our story will come full circle back to this hear shortly. I can honestly tell you I am not able to recall the events that went on between July 23, 2013 and September 01, 2013, but can tell that since September life took an unexpected change of events. In September my husband and I came to a place where we did some soul searching in our marriage. And while searching for our souls...in our marriage, we found a man called Jesus. Now I have always been a woman of faith, and Vance a man of faith, but through this journey I would say we found a new relationship with God. And through that new relationship and a new relationship with a counselor we have opened a whole new door to our marriage and a new perspective on our infertility journey. In January I was baptized into the Baptist faith and Vance and I joined Milwood Baptist Church. Our lives and marriage have forever been changed. And that statement could not be more confirmed after re-reading through my posts.
What I have been struggling with these past 3 years is the WHY. Why am I not able to get pregnant? What are we doing that is wrong? Why aren't the treatments working? WHY's filled my head, my heart, my life. I was focusing so much on what we didn't have, what wasn't working that I completely lost touch of what we did have and what was working. What we do have is each other and a beautiful marriage and life. And what is working is God, in our lives and in our hearts. Those few previous statements were not easy to come by. I have been doing some serious work to arrive here at this new destination. And the destination is called, I have ZERO control over this. They are 100 things I could try and do to get pregnant. I do be baptized and become a baptist, I could start going to church every Sunday and join a bible study. I could do acupuncture or have sex backwards with one leg facing due North while drinking an Arnold Palmer through a pink straw while listening to Baby Got Back. I could rub every essential oil known to man on my hips, lower back and temples. I could take the most expensive pre-natal vitamin on the market and never eat a piece of bread again in my life. I could take hormone pills and injections, have my Dr. remove 25 mature follicles, just to fertilize them in his special lab and turn right back around and plant right back in my uterus. All of these things I can do and some I have done, but at the end of it all, these things have no real impact on the outcome...I have no real impact on the outcome. And the more and more I realize this, the more and more my heart has hurt less and less. God has a plan. God has our plan, the Acker plan. No plan that Vance or I could ever dream up would come close to the plan God has in store for us. And who are we to think we could do better, know better. God is working in us, through this journey, for good. It is all for good. I know this, I trust in this, I place my entire faith in this fact and I find myself somewhere that I haven't been in the last 3 years...at peace.
My desire to be a Mom, to have a family with Vance hasn't gone away. But it has found a better fit in my heart. It used to be 99.9% of what I desired and now it's making its way down the priority list. WHY you may be asking???? Because if I don't focus on living the life I have now, I will wake up one day and regret not living in this moment. This moment with Vance, with puppies, with friends and family. I will regret not being thankful and humbled by the incredible life I am living right now, in this exact moment. I will regret missing it, while I was wishing and praying so desperately for something else. Something I thought would be better. So I have decided to give it to God. Because who could know better than He. He will show us our path, he will show us our purpose. So where does this leave us with all the fertility treatments????
In January we did another full blown IVF. We had 7 fertilized eggs and transferred one in, which did not take. In February we went back in for another exploratory surgery. We found more endometriosos, which was removed and few more lesions, which were also removed. Since then we've been on hiatus. And it has been so nice. You quickly forget what your normal, non hormonal self feels like. And it is a bit of a sigh of relief when you realize you aren't normally that big of a B@TCH. :) I've taken up a boxing class, which I love and have just been able to live our normal routine for the last several months. I've even lost 16 lbs since December!!! I will update you guys on my eating habits etc in another post. We took a trip to the awesome city of Boston in April and loved every minute of it. It's amazing how great life is when you sit back and enjoy it! And now we are at our favorite fork in the road, to continue the hiatus or give it another go.
What I have been struggling with these past 3 years is the WHY. Why am I not able to get pregnant? What are we doing that is wrong? Why aren't the treatments working? WHY's filled my head, my heart, my life. I was focusing so much on what we didn't have, what wasn't working that I completely lost touch of what we did have and what was working. What we do have is each other and a beautiful marriage and life. And what is working is God, in our lives and in our hearts. Those few previous statements were not easy to come by. I have been doing some serious work to arrive here at this new destination. And the destination is called, I have ZERO control over this. They are 100 things I could try and do to get pregnant. I do be baptized and become a baptist, I could start going to church every Sunday and join a bible study. I could do acupuncture or have sex backwards with one leg facing due North while drinking an Arnold Palmer through a pink straw while listening to Baby Got Back. I could rub every essential oil known to man on my hips, lower back and temples. I could take the most expensive pre-natal vitamin on the market and never eat a piece of bread again in my life. I could take hormone pills and injections, have my Dr. remove 25 mature follicles, just to fertilize them in his special lab and turn right back around and plant right back in my uterus. All of these things I can do and some I have done, but at the end of it all, these things have no real impact on the outcome...I have no real impact on the outcome. And the more and more I realize this, the more and more my heart has hurt less and less. God has a plan. God has our plan, the Acker plan. No plan that Vance or I could ever dream up would come close to the plan God has in store for us. And who are we to think we could do better, know better. God is working in us, through this journey, for good. It is all for good. I know this, I trust in this, I place my entire faith in this fact and I find myself somewhere that I haven't been in the last 3 years...at peace.
My desire to be a Mom, to have a family with Vance hasn't gone away. But it has found a better fit in my heart. It used to be 99.9% of what I desired and now it's making its way down the priority list. WHY you may be asking???? Because if I don't focus on living the life I have now, I will wake up one day and regret not living in this moment. This moment with Vance, with puppies, with friends and family. I will regret not being thankful and humbled by the incredible life I am living right now, in this exact moment. I will regret missing it, while I was wishing and praying so desperately for something else. Something I thought would be better. So I have decided to give it to God. Because who could know better than He. He will show us our path, he will show us our purpose. So where does this leave us with all the fertility treatments????
In January we did another full blown IVF. We had 7 fertilized eggs and transferred one in, which did not take. In February we went back in for another exploratory surgery. We found more endometriosos, which was removed and few more lesions, which were also removed. Since then we've been on hiatus. And it has been so nice. You quickly forget what your normal, non hormonal self feels like. And it is a bit of a sigh of relief when you realize you aren't normally that big of a B@TCH. :) I've taken up a boxing class, which I love and have just been able to live our normal routine for the last several months. I've even lost 16 lbs since December!!! I will update you guys on my eating habits etc in another post. We took a trip to the awesome city of Boston in April and loved every minute of it. It's amazing how great life is when you sit back and enjoy it! And now we are at our favorite fork in the road, to continue the hiatus or give it another go.
The breaks from cycles has been refreshing. And the fact that I've been able to work on my health and lose some weight has been so exciting and motivating! That being said, having just did a good old fashion uterus clean out, we are in prime mode for a transfer. So after much deliberation and prayer, we have decided to do one more transfer before taking some extended time off to give ourselves a mental/emotional rest and to continue focusing on our health. As of right now we are scheduled for a transfer on the 21st of this month, as in next week. The plan is to transfer two blastocytes this round. We've had an insurance change since last we talked, so that has forced us to make a few tweaks to our approach.
Although my uterus has never been more ready for a transfer, I am standing by my new found belief that this whole process is utterly up to God. I will be praying this round, not for a positive pregnancy test, but simply that His will be done. I honestly feel through prayer he has led us to the decision to move forward with one more transfer at this time and that He will continue to lead us down the path he has laid before us. More importantly, I find peace in that realization and that's a great place to finally be.
So that's where we are. I've missed sharing with you guys and hope a few of you are still out there. I will be back soon with updates on this transfer and to give you the skinny on the new insurance situation and the weight loss.
Bye for now!
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
The Aftermath
I would hate to admit that negative pregnancy tests are becoming somewhat routine, but I fear this is the truth. The devastation of the negative was no less severe, but this time the sting didn't last as long. It was more of a slow burn after the initial jab to the heart. I know what I did wrong, I got ahead of myself, like way ahead of myself. Because this time I hadn't started my period yet, I started to get pretty freakin' hopeful that the bloated-ness and mild cramping were pregnancy symptoms and not period symptoms. I started looking up one syllable girl names. I started thinking about how I was going to tell Vance that it was positive. I started thinking about when that would make my due date. I started doing everything I told myself I wouldn't do.
I could tell immediately that the test was negative by the "Hi, Stephanie, it's Ashley from Texas Fertility." Didn't even have to listen to the whole thing, the "Hi," said it all. I got the call at work, hung up the phone and walked outside to call Vance. Before the phone even started to ring, I was sobbing. We had the same conversation we have with every negative test and then did our best to continue about our day. I ugly cried the entire car drive home and by the time I was home it was mostly out of my system other than a few misty eye situations at dinner.
So the next step is on us. We decide if we want to go immediately into the next cycle or take some time off. As of this afternoon, we have decided to take some time off, but for a purpose. I'm not sure how much I've gotten into this on here, but I have decided to be tested to Gluten sensitivity. I will spare you all the not fun symptoms I am experiencing that have led me to be bested and just saw that I have read enough articles that link Gluten and Infertility that I think it's time to invest some serious effort into changing my eat habits. Today I had my blood work done and will be receiving the results in 3 weeks. Until then, I am to start removing the Gluten out of my life. I think this is nothing but a positive change. I've talked on here before about being Obese and Pregnant and how I would love to change that, so here's my chance.
I was always under the impression, if I were to take some time off from the Acker making to work on my weight, it would be something like a year or more. My heart couldn't really bare that sort of wait. But after talking to the Dr this morning, she said I would be surprised at what kind of progress I can make in a few short months. So that's exactly what we're going to do. We are going to take a few months to better ourselves and make a few positive changes and then give it another go.
Thanks for listening and hoping and praying. I'd love to hear from those of you who are reading, so send me an email or leave a comment. I will keep you posted on how the Gluten mission is going.
Until next time...
I could tell immediately that the test was negative by the "Hi, Stephanie, it's Ashley from Texas Fertility." Didn't even have to listen to the whole thing, the "Hi," said it all. I got the call at work, hung up the phone and walked outside to call Vance. Before the phone even started to ring, I was sobbing. We had the same conversation we have with every negative test and then did our best to continue about our day. I ugly cried the entire car drive home and by the time I was home it was mostly out of my system other than a few misty eye situations at dinner.
So the next step is on us. We decide if we want to go immediately into the next cycle or take some time off. As of this afternoon, we have decided to take some time off, but for a purpose. I'm not sure how much I've gotten into this on here, but I have decided to be tested to Gluten sensitivity. I will spare you all the not fun symptoms I am experiencing that have led me to be bested and just saw that I have read enough articles that link Gluten and Infertility that I think it's time to invest some serious effort into changing my eat habits. Today I had my blood work done and will be receiving the results in 3 weeks. Until then, I am to start removing the Gluten out of my life. I think this is nothing but a positive change. I've talked on here before about being Obese and Pregnant and how I would love to change that, so here's my chance.
I was always under the impression, if I were to take some time off from the Acker making to work on my weight, it would be something like a year or more. My heart couldn't really bare that sort of wait. But after talking to the Dr this morning, she said I would be surprised at what kind of progress I can make in a few short months. So that's exactly what we're going to do. We are going to take a few months to better ourselves and make a few positive changes and then give it another go.
Thanks for listening and hoping and praying. I'd love to hear from those of you who are reading, so send me an email or leave a comment. I will keep you posted on how the Gluten mission is going.
Until next time...
Friday, July 19, 2013
The Waiting Is Horrible
Apparently we will have to endure the dreaded 6 hour wait. I left the lab at 7:30 am and it is now 1:00 pm and still no call back. And yes, I did email my nurse this morning to confirm they would be calling me and not the other way around.
So, I am here...nervous and waiting...
So, I am here...nervous and waiting...
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Test Day So Soon!!!!????
We had our second transfer on the 11th! This one was so easy, it was ridiculous. We had three frozen embryos left from our last retrieval and decided to just transfer one. Our thought process was to maximize the number of frozen transfers. One, the process is way less painless and shorter and two WAY less expensive. Plus, one embryo at a time will keep the multiple chances down. I'm not really sure if that's true or not, but that's what we're going with!
We had to do some rearranging of the schedule due to a 30th birthday celebration, more on that another time and due to our Dr's availability. I honestly couldn't figure out when test day was. I emailed my nurse for confirmation and sure enough we go in tomorrow. FRIGHTENING!
I have not started yet. If you remember I started on a Friday and test day was Sunday. I have been feeling very bloated and heavy. Mild cramping is kind of coming an going, but absolutely no spotting. Today, I was so hungry at lunch that I was nauseous. But if I'm being honest with myself , that happens all the time, hahah. I am literally hovering between being super excited and hopeful and preparing myself for the negative results. The last time we tested was on a Sunday. So the only open lab was in the hospital downtown. If you follow the blog, you remember that horrid story. If you don't follow, you can re-read the disaster here. Testing was done at 8:00 am (was supposed to be there by 7:30 am, whoops!) and we didn't get the results until 1:45 pm. So now I am wondering if we will have to do that dreaded 6 hour wait again, or if since it's during working hours, we will have results sooner???? Am I rambling...I feel like I am rambling...Have I mentioned I'm nervous?
Last night I spent the evening thinking of ways I was going to tell Vance if it was positive. Vance KNOWS test day is tomorrow, but given our current situation of moving into our new house, we have been pretty preoccupied and I wouldn't blame him if he had forgotten. Hell, up until two days ago, I ALMOST FORGOT! So I was thinking how cool would it be if he DID forget and I got positive results back and called me for a random lunch date and was able to tell me in person and surprise him!!!!!! And then I quickly yanked myself back down to reality. STOP PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE, STEPHANIE! If this process has taught me anything, you would think it was to NOT GET AHEAD OF MYSELF. And yet hear I am, getting ahead. So, I am putting all ideas of how this whole thing will play out until we have something to play out.
Please wish us luck and if prayer is something you do and believe in, please send them our way. I am taking any and every offer of positivity and love and support we can get. This round has been hard because we opted to tell no one. We each got one person to confide in, should we need to vent to someone other than each other, but it kind of feels like because of that, we don't have everyone rooting in our corner like last time.
I will do my best to report back tomorrow. Last time I couldn't bare to put the bad news in permanent blog world yet. I was still trying to process the disappointment myself. Again, I will do my best. Thanks again for listening and hoping and praying for us. If it's not tomorrow, it WILL be another day. I know it.
:)
We had to do some rearranging of the schedule due to a 30th birthday celebration, more on that another time and due to our Dr's availability. I honestly couldn't figure out when test day was. I emailed my nurse for confirmation and sure enough we go in tomorrow. FRIGHTENING!
I have not started yet. If you remember I started on a Friday and test day was Sunday. I have been feeling very bloated and heavy. Mild cramping is kind of coming an going, but absolutely no spotting. Today, I was so hungry at lunch that I was nauseous. But if I'm being honest with myself , that happens all the time, hahah. I am literally hovering between being super excited and hopeful and preparing myself for the negative results. The last time we tested was on a Sunday. So the only open lab was in the hospital downtown. If you follow the blog, you remember that horrid story. If you don't follow, you can re-read the disaster here. Testing was done at 8:00 am (was supposed to be there by 7:30 am, whoops!) and we didn't get the results until 1:45 pm. So now I am wondering if we will have to do that dreaded 6 hour wait again, or if since it's during working hours, we will have results sooner???? Am I rambling...I feel like I am rambling...Have I mentioned I'm nervous?
Last night I spent the evening thinking of ways I was going to tell Vance if it was positive. Vance KNOWS test day is tomorrow, but given our current situation of moving into our new house, we have been pretty preoccupied and I wouldn't blame him if he had forgotten. Hell, up until two days ago, I ALMOST FORGOT! So I was thinking how cool would it be if he DID forget and I got positive results back and called me for a random lunch date and was able to tell me in person and surprise him!!!!!! And then I quickly yanked myself back down to reality. STOP PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE, STEPHANIE! If this process has taught me anything, you would think it was to NOT GET AHEAD OF MYSELF. And yet hear I am, getting ahead. So, I am putting all ideas of how this whole thing will play out until we have something to play out.
Please wish us luck and if prayer is something you do and believe in, please send them our way. I am taking any and every offer of positivity and love and support we can get. This round has been hard because we opted to tell no one. We each got one person to confide in, should we need to vent to someone other than each other, but it kind of feels like because of that, we don't have everyone rooting in our corner like last time.
I will do my best to report back tomorrow. Last time I couldn't bare to put the bad news in permanent blog world yet. I was still trying to process the disappointment myself. Again, I will do my best. Thanks again for listening and hoping and praying for us. If it's not tomorrow, it WILL be another day. I know it.
:)
We're BACK Baby!
It has almost been exactly two months since my last post. I just finished re-reading it to see where we left off. That was a sad post. I guess in reality, a lot of these posts are sad. The whole concept of infertility is sad. But infertility is like riding the waves and today we are riding high. Let me bring you up to speed on how we used are non baby making down time over the lat two months!
Our vacation to the Cayman Islands was unbelievable! The rest and relaxation is just what the doctor ordered. The highlight for me was swimming with the stingrays! They were so cute, just like kitties. They swim up and brush up against your legs and body. And they love to be fed! So fun! Other than that, my spa visit with my mother in law was amazing and just having no agenda for 3 days straight was perfection! Here are a few of my favorite shots.
In the middle of our vacation, we decided to finish the last room in our house, the master bathroom. It was nice going without any construction in the house for a while, but if we didn't move quickly, we would probably never do it! In the middle of this "little" renovation, we found a house we liked. We like to stalk the Austin home market, it's one of our hobbies. The home was gorgeous and exactly what we were looking for. We held back every desire to go see it for as long as we could, about two weeks and then we caved. We called up our real estate agent, took a look around and fell in love. Then we did something crazy, we put in an offer before a.) our bathroom was complete and b.) before our house was even on the market! CRAZY KIDS, I know. They didn't even really respond to our first offer. We were heart broken, but as I mentioned before, we had time. The house had been on the market for over 50 days and we weren't quite ready to move forward either. Another couple weeks went by and while stalking again I noticed they had lowered their asking price. So again, we submitted another offer and this time they accepted! We had 3 days to get the bathroom done and get our current house listed! This one experience was a whirl wind, but it was probably the best decision we ever made. We listed our house on a Friday afternoon about 3:30 pm. We accepted an offer, over asking on Sunday morning about 11:00 am. Isn't that INSANE?! Less than 48 hours! So now we are packing and waiting for our close date.
Our vacation to the Cayman Islands was unbelievable! The rest and relaxation is just what the doctor ordered. The highlight for me was swimming with the stingrays! They were so cute, just like kitties. They swim up and brush up against your legs and body. And they love to be fed! So fun! Other than that, my spa visit with my mother in law was amazing and just having no agenda for 3 days straight was perfection! Here are a few of my favorite shots.
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| Our view front our condo! |
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| Swimming with Stingrays! So cool!!!! |
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| Cheers to paradise! |
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| Pier view! |
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| The Ackers! |
In the middle of our vacation, we decided to finish the last room in our house, the master bathroom. It was nice going without any construction in the house for a while, but if we didn't move quickly, we would probably never do it! In the middle of this "little" renovation, we found a house we liked. We like to stalk the Austin home market, it's one of our hobbies. The home was gorgeous and exactly what we were looking for. We held back every desire to go see it for as long as we could, about two weeks and then we caved. We called up our real estate agent, took a look around and fell in love. Then we did something crazy, we put in an offer before a.) our bathroom was complete and b.) before our house was even on the market! CRAZY KIDS, I know. They didn't even really respond to our first offer. We were heart broken, but as I mentioned before, we had time. The house had been on the market for over 50 days and we weren't quite ready to move forward either. Another couple weeks went by and while stalking again I noticed they had lowered their asking price. So again, we submitted another offer and this time they accepted! We had 3 days to get the bathroom done and get our current house listed! This one experience was a whirl wind, but it was probably the best decision we ever made. We listed our house on a Friday afternoon about 3:30 pm. We accepted an offer, over asking on Sunday morning about 11:00 am. Isn't that INSANE?! Less than 48 hours! So now we are packing and waiting for our close date.
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| Update: SOLD! |
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