Saying Goodbye to the Pink House
Over eight years ago when my husband and I purchased a house closer to his work and our church, right away I dubbed it the ‘Pink House’. I had never been a huge fan of pink but the lady who had the home before us certainly was. It had brand new carpet that was a Pepto pink, countertops all pink, vertical blinds pink, the outside had pink accents, and even the tile had pink wisps next to the white. As a joke once we bought it we began ‘Operation Depinking’. Over the years we’d managed to either work with the pink, or change a lot of it. We put a lot of work into that house. It’s odd how homes can almost become like members of the family. The pink grew on me. For a whole list of reasons, that at the moment I’m not going to publicly go into, Dan and I had felt we needed to sell the pink house. Simply put the time had come to move forward into a new season of our lives, and while we loved our home, in order to go to the next seas...