What you're going through is only half the fun!
Wait till the day you really want and like a house, you put a contract on it contingent of you first having to sell your current house and to spice things up on closing day your realtor tells you your mortgage loan been declined during the closing meeting, so you just sold your current home and you can't buy the new one because some idiot underwriter in the last minute decides to cancel your dreams. So now you're homeless and have only 2 days to find another mortgage loan but its Saturday! And all banks close at noon for the weekend, its 10am so you really only have 2 hours to make it happen!
Well it did happen, but what an intense 2 hours in my life!
Daryl, wish you and your family a great home, you do have some advantages:
As a buyer only there's no worries in selling, paying 6% to the realtor, having strangers go through your house, months of disappointments because its not selling and so on....
Much success on your hunt!