It isn't easy to leave a house you've lived in for two-plus decades. My daughter spent her high school years here. Mom came to live here after Dad died. The small community welcomed us. It was a pretty good life. Now things are changing and we live in the Northwest near Mame who has started a family of her own. The house in the Southwest is for sale. A property manager and realtor friends keep an eye on it, but it is worrisome to leave a house empty for an extended period. It is time to move on, but I am hoping the right person finds this house, someone who requires lots of alone time, loves horses and cares about the Sonoran Desert.
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Todd and I bought our house (our first house, the house we brought our children home to, the house we hope to retire to) from the family of a woman who lived there 50 years before she died. The family was glad that the house was going to another family, not some college kids who would turn it into a party house or something. But I think it took the woman's ghost a while to warm up to us. :)
What I mean to say is, I totally get the emotional attachment your house has. I hope it goes to the right person, too.
Sometimes I feel silly for such a lingering attachment when I am happy here also. Thank you for understanding and affirming my feelings. I bet your resident ghost is thrilled by now to have you and your sweet family filling her house with glad.
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