It Could Only Be the Hand of God

So we had made an offer on this house Thursday night the 11th. Friday morning Natasha sends me a text picture of a bag of scorpions from one of her co-workers houses. She knows I am paranoid about scorpions [not that I have ever seen any since living here, but have heard stories]. Well after some back and forth of the counter offers as previously described, we got the news of getting the house Sunday evening.

Then last Tuesday our realtor comes by and drops off the clue report from the owners of the house we are buying. It states on there..."A few scorpions over the years, but mostly in front near the neighbor.." Well I was not happy to hear of that news but it didn't end the deal for us, as we know it is AZ and it could very well happen in any house we get. Well we go to the bank, schedule the appraisal and inspection. Then on Wednesday morning I am glancing at the clue report again and see it is faxed from Natasha's work. I get sort of excited as I figure if we have a connection with the people then maybe they would be willing to let us pre-posses...rent it until our loan goes through to avoid a double move. I also wanted to ask them a few questions about preschools in the area, etc. So I send her an email to ask if she knows this person. She calls me back about an hour later and says she knows this guy and he works in her department. [Good news so far...] Then she asks me if I got that text picture of the scorpians...and those are from the guy selling the house. Ugghhh... And did I mention there were like 14 scorpions,which he brought 'live' in a sandwich bag to work to show. And apparently this was not the first time either. So then we hear they are both inside and outside the house...so we think these are way more than just "a few over the years". After doing some research with pest control companies, we decide it is a bigger battle/risk that we are willing to take.... so we cancelled our offer.

But to see how this string of events came about...it could only be the hand of God...as what are the odds of all the happening. I don't believe in coincidences. So we are back to square one.

Nearly half of our house belongings now reside in storage. I am feeling the disconnection from this house, as it no longer is our home, but rather a house filled with boxes and piles of stuff. It is sad as it has been a wonderful home and we have so many memories here, yet I know there will be something great in store for us one of these days :)