On Houses
IT STARTED WHEN GRANDMA PASSED, the urgency to have a place to call our own, a place to call home again. We talked to builder after builder, picking out floor plans and granite countertops and available lots all up and down the county but for one reason or another (or a hundred, as it seemed) it always fell down around us with a resounding boom, boom, boom of our hopes and dreams crashing to the floor.
So we rented a townhouse with three freaking flights of stairs that have become the bane of our existence, and neighbors who walk around like they weigh 1,000 pounds, and a group of HOA whores who will report you if you don’t pick up your dog crap the very minute that steaming turd hits land.
And we love it here, we do. But one day the conversation came up that it would be nice to have our own house so we could landscape and decorate and hang stuff on the wall with real nails! and so many other things – but if I’m being honest, another reason being so we wouldn’t have to hear the neighbors bed squeak when they’re having sex. That may sound too graphic but let me tell you – I can also hear every time they go pee. Every time they go upstairs. Every time they FREAKING BREATHE.
But home buying remained something that was a Far Off In the Future type of deal. That is, until we went through a model home that we fell in love with and we started to think: could we?
Turns out, we can.
So that’s what we’re doing – going back into the world of house buying (which feels a lot like dating because of the back and forth communication, the uncertainty and the worry of if your mother will approve. I’m not sure which is scarier – marrying someone or signing on a thirty year mortgage. Ask me in a few months). We are to the point that we have everything picked out and wrapped in a pretty bow, and there’s a part of me that is so thrilled, but also freaked the freak out. I spent the whole time thinking it was too good to be true, but it’s looking like we’re actually building and buying a house.
If this post jinxes that, I will be so pissed.
Ahhhhh!!! So cool that you’re getting to design the thing
I hope your house hunt/house buying goes so much easier than ours is going, haha.
All those things that you mentioned in this post just made me super-apprehensive about buying a townhouse. I would rather not deal with a continuation of the apartment complex noises I’ve heard for the past few years! We’ll see what happens, I guess.
Yay for you & Kevin!! Best of luck
Congrats! It is scarier buying a home than getting married, just to answer your question!! Oh….well….I take that back. I guess it depends on who you marry. For you it will be scarier to get the house. Good luck. Can’t wait for the updates.
Congrats. It is a big step, but a good one. We loved our first little place we built…it was stressful, but it was fun to be taking that big leap with my man. I am sure you will agree.
Can I come lay on your nice carpet?? Will you make me dinner more often? How about sleepovers too….including me…not just my kids
Im happy for you guys and crossing my fingers!
Exciting times! House ownership is awesome.
This didnt show up in my feed and now I am freaking out I have missed heaps of your posts lol.
Way late on this but YAY! So excited for you guys. Hope everything goes smoothly! I wish Cody & I could but we royally effed our credit. So it will probably never happen. I’ll be hoping & praying for you guys!
i am so excited for you! And, I miss you. A lot.