The adventures of selling/buying a home

It has been said (by whom I have no idea) that the most stressful things in life are getting a new job, death, and moving (buying or selling a house). I never truly believed all of this until recently. I knew that a new job was stressful as was a death in the family but thought they were exaggerating about the whole house thing. I figured they just had a bad experience or were not prepared. When we bought our 1st house almost 11 years ago, the process was really rather painless. Using our VA loan most of everything was handled for us and the down payment was minimal. Overall the experience was really pretty easy and pleasant! We had only been married a couple of years and had no children and at the time had difficulties conceiving, so this house was perfect for us. Things quickly began to change! After living in the house almost a year things began to change... having 4 kids in a matter of 5 years began to overload our little house of 1100 sq.ft. So 2 years ago we decided to move. Everything was in place we had the money and we moved to another house that we ended up buying. This was the only way we could put our house on the market! There was no way we would have been able to sell our house with us living in it...too small, too many people. Anyway, things happened etc, etc and we finally put the house on the market in November.
One thing I have realized throughout this process is you never know what is going to happen. You never know what will attract the buyer, will it be the feel of the home, the layout, convenience? We painted inside and out, we made changes to the house that was never made while we were in the house...still no sale. So we decided to lay carpet where carpet had once been instead of showcasing the original hardwood floor. Originally we had given a flooring allowance to restore the floors but that didn't seem to satisfy those who were looking. Once the carpet had been laid we had a contract 2 days later....AMAZING! Who knew that laying carpet would have made that much difference. So we were excited. We haggled closing price and were awaiting the end of the buyer's remorse option as well as seeing the inspection report. We thought we would be in the clear...til the report came.
Some how, some way we have to replace the roof and now we have an engineer looking at the foundation of the house. This is not what we had hoped for. Darren's first thought was to take it off the market, he was furious. But after some thought he realized it just needed to be done. What we thought we would be coming away with will not be the case. Why can't it be easy? Why can't everything go smoothly? However, they accepted what we would take care of and the saga continues. So they will have a new roof and we will fix the foundation if necessary, whatever it takes to sell that house and get it off our books! We are tired of paying 2 mortgages and dumping money into a house that is no longer a part of our lives. We're just ready to see an end!
With that being said I can easily say that I miss that house! I has so many memories for us, so much happened there. But there was no way we could have stayed and the move has been good, tough but good! But after all is said and done I think we'll just stop...we'll be here for a while!