All Grown Up

Finally!!! Again I say F-I-N-A-L-L-Y!!!! I feel all grown up. It may have taken E and I a little longer than some to reach this point, but it is happening. Although my carreer has been on track for several years, E's has not.  But all of that is changing now. I am thrilled for him and I will expand on that as soon as it is official.

What is official is that we are the newest homeowners of the property below. It's going to be ours. All ours. It is a gorgeous piece of property adn my boys are going to have a wonderful life here.  We walked in today and I felt home.

I should preface this with the fact that we had seen this placce from the outside a couple of times, but by the time we were able to get in to see it, it was gone. It had sold on day 1. Well after that we saw another property and I hemmed and hawed over it. On paper it was perfect, great school district, cul de sac, nice lot, etc. But it didn't feel like home. So I made us wait to long and by the time we put a bid on it we ended up in a bidding war and we didn't win. At first I said  'It wasn't meant to be' I kept putting my faith in the powers that be that HE would take care of us. Then I started to doubt. There were no homes matching our wants in our price range. (Of course there was alot of horrible stuff going on too). Then good news for E. Yay!!

We re-evalutaed our finances and strated looking in a different price range. I still wasn't seeing anything unless we strapped ourselves. Well last night I was depressed. I felt like it was my fault that we didn't get the 1st house. I was doubting we would ever find a house that wasn't too much for us. I went to bed sad and overwhelmed. Then E came running in. The house we loved from the outside....was back on the market. Can you believe it? I'll tell you faith slapped me in the face and said pay attention. So we went today to see the house. Basically, I went home.  And here it is. A 99 year old cottage on almost an acre of land.