HOLY CRAP STUFF HAS CHANGED!!
So much has changed in the last week, it is almost like I am a different person living on a different planet doing different MY-HOUSE-IS-SOLD things.
Yes, I said it, "my house is sold!"I know most of you may not even know that my house was up for sale, BUT IT WAS! My house has been on the market for over four years now. That is two kids ago, four Christmas trees, two births and countless house cleanings and showings....and now it is SOLD!! It has gotten so bad that each year Skylar's bus driver says to her "you haven't sold that house yet?" Seriously! Skylar was in elementary school when we started this insanity! Can you hear me screaming from the rooftop?
So we have signed the "SOLD" paperwork and have to be out by July 13th. That gives us time to figure out what we are going to buy, how we are going to buy it and ample time to pack....but now we have to figure out where we are going to live, and today we have allotted four hours to look.
So we have mapped-out a bunch of houses in two cities, some we can afford, some we can't afford and some we totally have no business looking at. I am quite sure that the we-have-no-business-waisting-your-time-here houses will without a doubt be the ones we will fall in love with, hence the fact that we have NO business even looking at them.
We have mapped-out a budget, mapped-out taxes, mapped-out a down payment annnnnndd mapped-out the fact that nobody is going to be in any extra curricular activities anymore because mommy wants a first-floor laundry and no dance class is going to keep me from a walk-in closet. Sorry kiddos, I mean, who needs swim lessons anyway?
Jim has taken the next two days off of work and we are tackling one city today and one city tomorrow. We have vowed to not get emotional about the decision, not fight, not to tell the other one not to get emotional....because that just makes me really really emotional.....
So today we are off to make the largest purchase of our relationship. Today we are off to come together on what is important for our next home. Today we are off to drive around a city looking for the dream house, our next master bedroom, our next backyard, our next kitchen, our next family room. Today we are going to look for what our next Christmas will look like, Emersyn's first day of school, the yard I will be standing in when Skylar goes to Prom.
Hey wait a minute....I have to fit all those dreams into a budget... AHHHHH....this could get emotional...
Yes, I said it, "my house is sold!"I know most of you may not even know that my house was up for sale, BUT IT WAS! My house has been on the market for over four years now. That is two kids ago, four Christmas trees, two births and countless house cleanings and showings....and now it is SOLD!! It has gotten so bad that each year Skylar's bus driver says to her "you haven't sold that house yet?" Seriously! Skylar was in elementary school when we started this insanity! Can you hear me screaming from the rooftop?
So we have signed the "SOLD" paperwork and have to be out by July 13th. That gives us time to figure out what we are going to buy, how we are going to buy it and ample time to pack....but now we have to figure out where we are going to live, and today we have allotted four hours to look.
So we have mapped-out a bunch of houses in two cities, some we can afford, some we can't afford and some we totally have no business looking at. I am quite sure that the we-have-no-business-waisting-your-time-here houses will without a doubt be the ones we will fall in love with, hence the fact that we have NO business even looking at them.
We have mapped-out a budget, mapped-out taxes, mapped-out a down payment annnnnndd mapped-out the fact that nobody is going to be in any extra curricular activities anymore because mommy wants a first-floor laundry and no dance class is going to keep me from a walk-in closet. Sorry kiddos, I mean, who needs swim lessons anyway?
Jim has taken the next two days off of work and we are tackling one city today and one city tomorrow. We have vowed to not get emotional about the decision, not fight, not to tell the other one not to get emotional....because that just makes me really really emotional.....
So today we are off to make the largest purchase of our relationship. Today we are off to come together on what is important for our next home. Today we are off to drive around a city looking for the dream house, our next master bedroom, our next backyard, our next kitchen, our next family room. Today we are going to look for what our next Christmas will look like, Emersyn's first day of school, the yard I will be standing in when Skylar goes to Prom.
Hey wait a minute....I have to fit all those dreams into a budget... AHHHHH....this could get emotional...
We are in the same boat!
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