Making Life: Home Sweet Home

Friday, June 28, 2013

Home Sweet Home

I think I will cross stitch that and hang it.

I had anticipated this kind of thing happening. I don't have much of a Week In Review for this week. There hasn't been anything going on. Just waiting for the shop to be finished with the car. We were told many different things - parts were damaged, parts truck hasn't shown up, we broke a piece. Finally frustrated with everything, we (Ryan) just picked up the car. We will be heading home tomorrow.

Home.

The last time I mentioned anything, we were starting to look for a house. After ten years of apartment living, it is time for us to finally own our own home. We looked at a first round of houses and made an offer on one. Our offer was not accepted. Then we found a house we wanted to look at in the first round, but it was in contract. After we put in that unaccepted offer, the house we originally liked went back on the market. We immediately got the opportunity to look at the house. We made the offer that night.

After a few days of anticipation, our offer was accepted. Then there was the inspection (which led to avoidable drama), a survey, and then the appraisal. There were concessions written into the contract and the sellers were more than happy to have everything that we asked for taken care of. They want us to be happy with our first home. Once we decided to continue with the contract, we set our closing date. All we have been doing for the past couple of weeks was waiting.

Closing is right around the corner... Monday! We will start moving some of our items into the house like small things we don't really need at the moment. Our official move-in date is July 8 - well, the actual day we will have all the major furniture moved in.

We have a house. Our first house. I cannot wait! So much decorating to do and making it OURS. And so many crafty things to do.

And the photos...