SOLD

Announcing: 831 E Marion Street is now SOLD!

Happy faces and another great person that I have met along my way in my journey of Real Estate.. One of the many things I am thankful for this year...

Thanksgiving

Yesterday was a fun day filled with Turkey, family and fun. I am so thankful for so many things this year. I have seen God work in some amazing ways and I am excited to continue to see him in my life. I am thankful for the situations , although trying, which allowed me to draw near to God and feel him with every step I take. I am going to try to continue to give things to him and not take them on myself. Only he can make the difference. I thank him for the light at the end of the tunnel that I can start to see a glimmer of. The hope that fills my lungs and allows me to take in a full breath of air and begin to feel alive again. With this year, I am for the first time really excited about Christmas. It is about that time again to sit down and make a list of gift ideas for those I love. I am not a shopper and I hate crowds so I will not be going out to the Black Friday sales but I am excited to start planning out my course to embracing a time of year that once brought on stress and sadness and allowing God to shine the light so I can rejoice as I should be in the birth of his son Jesus who died on the cross so I can live. And LIVE is just what I am going to start to do.

Happy Holidays everyone!

Crazy Love

I just finished reading Crazy Love by Francis Chan and I have to say WOW! What an awesome book. I want for this to be a book that I do not just put on my shelf and say I read it. I want to really try to focus on how I can implement change into my life to allow me to walk in a stronger faith. I am challenging myself after reading this to just start taking steps towards change and allowing God the opportunity to open or close doors in my life. To allow him to lead me. This book changed my thinking and how I will conduct each day. I would highly recommend reading if you are looking for good book to read. If you do read it check out the Bloom Book Club to hear thoughts on each chapter and gather additional information from others reading along. A new book will be announced in December!

Have a great week!

A-21 Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYpLwfDKX8k

Don't Fake the Funk

As a professional I am always looking for other professionals that I admire. Ones that I can look to for inspiration and ideas. I am blessed to have a friend who is one of those people. He and his wife are amazing people. He brings life into what he does by bringing a piece of who he is to his business. He owns Pearl Street photography and takes some amazing photo's. He shares in special moments in peoples lives but it is so much more than just a picture for him. I was reading one of his blog posts and thought it was very interesting. I thought I would share it with you. Go to http://ponderingloudly.blogspot.com/and read " a really cool workshop and real long shot". The work that both Matt and this photographer do is amazing but what is more amazing is what they bring of themselves to others. She noted in her post that she does not want to fake the funk. How refreshing those words are to me. I admire those who allow their life to run their business and not allow their business to run their lives. I feel that you can mix business with pleasure. I take much pleasure in my business. In allowing myself to walk along in the journey of each and every one of my clients. I am not in the business of selling homes, I am in the business of helping people, reaching people, touching people. Leaving that person with an experience. I hope you enjoy the post I have shared with you. Happy weekend to all my blog readers!

Reflection

Looking back over my life I realize that I may have planned too much. It is good to plan but while doing that you need to be open to the fact that God may have another plan for your life. I think that God does though want us to be prepared. Use the time he has given us and where he has place us wisely. Learn from it and grow because it is a place of preparation. I realize that I do need to plan. I need to think through each day and look into the future but maybe not to the extreme in which I was planning. Now I like to think of it more as dreaming. Dream about what is placed in your heart. Dream about where you want to go. How you want things to be. Dream about how you can use the circumstances of today to make you one step closer to that dream. Dream but also be patient and know that your dreams can come true, they will come true but all in Gods timing. Know that no matter how much you think your plan for your life is great that the plan he has for you is greater. Be joyful in where you are now even if it is not exactly where you want to be. Be willing to take a detour. That detour could turn out to be an amazing place..

Under contract

Announcing that 831 E Marion Street is now under contract and set to settle Nov 27th!

Trick or Treat!

I love halloween night! Watching the kids run around the neighborhood all dressed up makes me remember how much I loved trick or treat night as a kid. What fun did we have! Now just so we get rid of all of our candy so I don't "have" to eat it!

Happy Halloween!

Fall fun

Wow, what a fun fall day! I spent the day with my cousin and her 6 month old son Zaden. We went to Funks, admired all the mums and pumpkins. I got pumpkins for my front porch to greet the kiddies on Trick or Treat night.

We had a great lunch at the John Wright Restaurant. If you have never eaten there I would highly recommend it.

From there we headed to the Christmas Tree Store for lots of shopping fun. I am excited that I got some Christmas shopping done already. Zaden was such a good baby! He had fun hangin with us girls while his daddy did work on his room. Looking forward to more fun fall days like today!

I have to say that Fall is my favorite time of year. It is the time of year that I married my amazing husband and the fall just brings warm feeling to my soul. Sipping on warm cider on a cool night, sitting by the warm fire being held by the one you love, enjoying the amazing beauty as the tree's change color. This year I want to really enjoy fall and embrace winter. With each passing season comes beauty that are to embrace and enjoy for it will only be with us for a short time. Happy Fall everyone! Snuggle up with the one you love...

Actions speak louder than words

So, many people went to church today. Listened to really good lessons about what it is to be a christian. So today I did not go to church. Why? Because I got sick of going to church and seeing Christians listen to the service get in there cars and go home to spend that day and week forgetting everything they listened to that day in church. They go about there days and week only thinking of themselves, treating others badly and leaving those around them who themselves are not Christians wondering why in the heck would I want to go to church and believe in this so called God with people like them? Faith is an action. When you hear someone say actions speak louder than words what does that really mean? Do we really go as so deep as to dissect that for a moment? Today that means to me that I want to know from all of you that went to church today and listened to your pastor speak- what are you going to do today and for the rest of the week to take action on what you heard today? How are you going to take action to show those around you why it is that they should love and know God? Today is the day to show it and not speak it people. I speak for myself when I say I want to see it. Do you even know why more people are not saved? Why this world is such a crappy place to be? Why there are so many horrible things happening around us? Look in the mirror and you will see your answer. Edgy? No -its called the truth. Can you handle it?

Uncovering the truth

Thank you...

As I look back through my life I am thankful for so many people. Today one person stands out in my mind as a person who I am glad took the time to reach out to me to give me something that has helped me make some real big steps in my growth lately. This person gave me the information to learn about The Redemptive Gifts of Individuals. We all have a gift from God, one that makes us who we are and what God created us to be. Revealing this for me has really given me peace about who I am and a sense of where to start when doing my daily check up from the neck up. I encourage you to check this out and see for yourself how amazing this information will be not just for you but to learn about the other people in your lives that you love. Thank you to this person for taking the time to share this information and for seeing something in me that I did not even see. I am excited as we both grow into the true people that God really wants for us to be. Click the link below to learn more..

http://www.plumblineministries.com/inc/sdetail/1306

More than a touch

So for all of you that are married I am sure you will appreciate this story. My husband is notorious for putting my things places where I do not know where they are. In his mind that place he put it makes sense but then I am not able to find things in the place that I would call their home. So this past week I have been beside myself because I have not been able to find all my necklaces that I placed in a bag which was packed with us when we were at the beach last week. Since I have still not unpacked from this trip which I know bothers my very organized husband I thought maybe it was here or there in my other bags but as the week went on realized it in fact was not in those places. So today after a night of rethinking our departure from our hotel and trying to discover where it may have gone said something to Dustin about it. He looked at me and said that I have not been looking hard enough and because I am still not unpacked this is probably part of my problem. A lecture that I expected from him. He then proceeded to take me upstairs and open a drawer in the bottom of my dresser that I never use and said here they are! As I was trying to explain to him that this was not where they went he proceeded to remind me that then I should have put them where they did go and then also back tracked and then said he did not even put them there which makes me very confused to how in 1.2 seconds he knew where they were! I told him that he is not to put his hands on my stuff and put them places they don't belong. This though did not cause a fight since after 10 years of marriage we tend to just laugh at each other more than anything anymore in amazement that two people as different as we are can even still be married. So as I thought about this and the fact that deep down it did make me a little frustrated that over a week had gone by an I had looked and looked for those necklaces and stressed about where they could be and that it was all because he stuck them in some bottom drawer I never look in and did not even bother to tell me he put them there. Also frustrated that as I thought this through I realized that he is right and if I would be more organized I would have discovered them earlier since that bottom drawer where the necklaces were tucked away really does have a purpose which is for my hair dyer and flat iron which I decide to leave lay out each day rather than put them away where they belong. Discovering this fact made me even more mad but I guess at myself rather than him (sort of) As I thought this through I tried to get to the bottom line of it all which is that if he were not here to touch my stuff and place it in the most odd places that I would very much miss it. I would miss him and the lesson that I learned from it today although if I am being honest I would miss him more than the lesson.

So today I am embracing his kind gesture to try to help me out and place those necklaces in a drawer to where he thought was a safe place and for the lesson to myself to be more organized which I know will be a long work in progress. So touch away hubby! Your touch is very much desired in more ways than one..

Blog vision

When I first started this blog I was not really sure what I wanted it to be. I had many thoughts running through my head. I know that I wanted it to have some real estate in it since that is what I do but I also wanted it to have some of what I, being me, had to share. I feel that being a realtor I am very good at what I do because I educate myself in the current market and the tools in which I have to help my clients but I also bring me, being who I am. Someone who is always looking for a way to reach out to someone and be that very thing that day that they needed. I feel that I can bring that to what I offer in real estate. I know that when someone is selling or buying a home they are not just needing someone to help them with their sale or purchase but they are also inviting me into their lives to share in the joy of the reason for buying or selling or the sad sorrow behind why they are. I know that I can bring where I have been and what I was created for also as a tool to help my clients. I also know that what I do for someone may have nothing to do with real estate. It just might end up being someone who stumbles upon my blog and reads something that hits close to their heart. Maybe helps to give them a sense of understanding, or gives them hope or lets them know that they are not alone. So I guess this blog for me is to just let you know who I am and allow you to get to know me and where I have been and where I am now. I honestly believe that we all have a story to tell and we never know who or where it will be that our story will make a change in someone's life. So thank you for reading and bearing with me as I am learning why it is I feel so compelled to put my fingers to my keyboard and write while I discover and learn how to be content with "just being me".

Remembering 10-2-99

Today marks the day 1o years ago that I married the Man of my dreams! This is the day that my life changed forever. The day I became Mrs. Anne Schlenbaker. Thank you God for bringing this man into my life to truly love me in the good times and the bad for better or for worse. I am blessed to get to spend each day with my best friend.

So today I remember A&D- October 2, 1999.

Truth or fantacy

So tonight I finish my day and I am feeling very fired up. I ask myself why? The reason for my burning inside has nothing to do with me. So why do I allow myself to become to involved? Why do I go so deep? I am then revealed things I do not want to see ,the very things that make me so fired up not for me but for those around me. Or am I taking the focus off myself? I am sitting here tonight just unsettled. Unaware of whether I should reach out to this person that is so on my heart right now or just let them go. I feel they need someone to say some honest things and express my concern for them but fear that would be the wrong thing to do. So why does this have me so shaken? Am I just crazy or does this person really need me? God please let me know. Maybe I am not the person that I thought I was. Maybe everyone would just be better off if I just left them alone and just ignored what I see. Kick up my feet and just let them figure it out. Why do I give a damn so much about other peoples problems and fighting for them! I give people my heart and soul and for what? To be shut out and thrown to the side. I could scream until I cant scream anymore, I am coming unglued and coming out of my skin. Are they believing lies or am I? Please God help me to know the truth..

831 E Marion Street

831 E. Marion Street! 3 bedrooms 1 bath. $79,900

Solid Brick Town home w/many updates. Some to include: HW floors refinished in 2003, bathroom remodeled in 2001, new rubber roof in 2002, replaced windows 1998. Private fenced in yard, great location- w/in walking distance of schools and stores. Very well maintained with tons of charm!

$8,000 First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit

As many of you have probably heard, first time home buyers are being offered an $8,000 tax credit. In order to take advantage of this you must have settlement on your new home before December 1, 2009.

Below are some helpful links to learn more about the tax credit and learn how this tax credit may be able to benefit you.

http://www.federalhousingtaxcredit.com/2009/resources.html

http://www.federalhousingtaxcredit.com/2009/index.html

My new ride

Since the day I saw Kelly Taylor on 90210 in her Convertible BMW I have wanted one. So finally after all these years I have got mine! Driving with the top down is so much fun! If you are looking for a place to go for your next car check out skymotorcars.com. They are in West Chester but worth the drive. Great place with no hassle and good quality vehicles. There info is also found on the photos. Zoom Zoom...