Decisions... decisions.

I sat down hard in total disbelief. I asked the listing agent, “Your kidding, right?” “No. Sorry. Not kidding. A couple looked at the house a few hours ago and just called me to put an offer in. I called to let you know, just like you asked.” After a very deep breath I quickly got my bearings back, “OK. So Dave and I will talk tonight and decide if we are ready to make an offer. We’ll call you first thing in the morning. But can you let the owner know that another offer may come in the morning and to not make a final decision until then?”

I couldn’t believe it. We had thought so much about this piece of property, Dave was finally on board with it and we were really getting excited about the possibility of our dream coming true… and NOW SOMEONE ELSE PUTS AN OFFER IN ON OUR PROPERTY!?!?!?! We’ve come this close and now we might lose this!?!?!

No. This was just not acceptable.

I nervously waited for Dave to get home from work. How would I begin to tell him this? We really didn’t feel ready to drop an offer yet. There were still so many questions about whether this would definitely work. We had only just begun to really think about. And now we were being forced to make a quick decision about a major life-altering event under total duress. Shit!

Dave walked in, asked how my day was and I told him we now had about 14 hours to decide our fate. So, we did what any rational people would do in this situation… put the baby to bed, got a pizza, opened a bottle of wine and began to talk.

And we talked. And talked. And talked. We talked so long that at 10pm, we looked up and saw that Tate was still on the couch happily playing Wii and thrilled to have been able to stay up so late. We talked so long we forgot to put Tate to bed.

I don’t remember everything we said, there was so much. I just remember being really honest about my fears of buying the property and my fears of not buying it. Dave was equally as honest. And after all the talking, and all the wine, the final decision was YES. YES, WE ARE GOING TO PUT AN OFFER IN.

I do believe that we have made some of our best decisions under total duress. Somehow, we work very well together that way. I’m thinking the wine didn’t hurt either.