Find a house and make it home

...some grape plants, raspberries, blueberries and blackberries!

I can’t wait to start growing them! YEY!!!!!!

I hope I don’t kill them…but Mark is good with plants Yippie!!!.

...by adding some color.
I painted the laundry room first…

then the pantry…

...now I have to keep on organizing before I can paint any more…

I’ve been screaming of happinness for 4 days now, and waking to our beautiful new house for 3 mornings.
We started making good memories about the house since the day we spoted it, and now they are happening right here.
The kids are so happy, they played hide and seek everyday, and not once have they said they are bored even without their computers. They have said so many cute things; and are being careful to keep it clean. I guess the happy feeling has made them also want to be good more because they are at their best helpful behaviour too.

Bill, you get a kitchen now if you want to borrow it when you are in Dallas.

I can’t believe we are here, it is a dream and I hope I don’t wake up.
:)

_{no spell checker ugh, I hope I spelled everything correctly, I’m borrowing someone else’s computer so I will fix it when I go to mine}

...and we will be there.
We close tomorrow, and if we can we will spend the night there too.
Though I’d like to fumigate before I spend the night.
Maybe we will sleep there Thursday.
I didn’t want to be running back and forth packing and then sleeping there but we will be doing that, oh well! It is alright! We will be fully moved I hope by December.

...I’ll scream!
We found it, we offered they accepted and now we just have to close.
I can’t wait!!! I will be painting on MY walls! Now I better keep on packing, and hope there are no delays.
It is the perfect time in my kids lives to do this, I will miss the old house even if it was falling apart on me.
There are so many memories here, but it was getting to hard to make new ones.
I hope we start from day 1 to make good memories in our new house…but I still have to wait two days…

I guess, it is almost like someone is taunting us.
I thought I had found the most wonderful house ever…even though I didn’t really love the architecture of it, it was awesome inside and back and all that.
Well, I thought I wouldn’t find anything like it again, and everything after seeing that one seemed to be not as great.
There was this little house that I kept skipping on my searches, once I had clicked it and sounded OK, I sent it to Mark but he rejected it because it seemed to be very far.
After it came back every single time in my searches I clicked it again and read the specs, it sounded like it had what we needed, not bonuses just basics.
We went to see it and it was beautiful, the pictures on the Internet made it no justice, this house has character and it is nice in the inside too.
It has exactly what I wanted, a laundry room (not in a hallway), a kitchen with an island and big enough closets. And guess what? I get an art room too! It is small but it has a lot of light!

This house is on the raw and I will have to make it home, after all that was my goal; the first house I wanted was already made home, someone else’s home, and this one is just a house, a cheaper house too, and that is why we put an offer the owner accepted and now we just have to cross our fingers and get financing, Mark got us pre-approved so I hope it sticks. I’ll wait to scream until we close.

...but I thought I had found the one; I mean this house had a modest but smart floor plan, it had a decent kitchen, a small but independent laundry room, small rooms but with enough closet space, not a fancy master bedroom, just right, a large living room (could live with less) and a HUGE backyard! This house had everything we always wanted in a house plus bonus goodies for everyone of us. It wasn’t beautiful from the outside, it was kind of plain; the paradise was inside and in the back.
I mean…look at that art room! I won’t find another house with a room like that one, I might make a garage into a shop, or a bedroom…sigh! ...but this one was made to be that! and not just an art room but an art building!
BUAAAAAA
Someone offered more than we did and well they took that of course, we could not possibly match their price, which was weird because is way over appraisal value. HUM!!!!

...that when you think you found what you were looking for…you can’t afford it.
However, we found something very close to perfect and just barely over what our top price is. We are hoping they will reduce the price a bit; like most houses on the market have been doing.
We found the public records of “the house” and their last appraisal was a lot lower than what they are asking for, so hopefully they will get closer to it soon, because it is what we could afford.
I’m starting to pack, not that we have even got a loan or made an offer, but I feel that when we do move it will be easier, even if it is not that house.
I’m so ready to get out of here, we made wonderful memories in this pretty house, but we were two and a baby when we moved here, now it is still us a bit fatter but we have four kids, the original one three times bigger than when he got here. It is getting harder to have “good ” memories and easier to get frustrated ones of bumping into each other or things and having things fall all the time, or not finding what we need etc.
Like my 4 year old says out loud every time she sees something she wants…
“Santa please can I have it for Christmas? please?”

...is drive around the places we would like to live in, we go on weekends and imagine our life in those neighborhoods.
We research the houses for sale and have even gone to a few open houses.
We went with a Realtor around once to look at a few and didn’t like them, ever since he is quite insistent sending us similar properties that are just NOT for us, despite my replies requesting for specific details.
We must be too picky, but when it comes to finding the place were we will likely spend the rest of our lives I want it to be “home”.
We have been living in temporary locations, the last one not so much since it has been 11 years from the time we moved in, my husband predicted we would be there only a year.
Finally luck seems to be flying our way and we might be able to move in OUR house within a year, maybe even before the end of the year.
I like the city I live in and I’ll miss it, the church, the neighbors the library. I’m not really social but people know us and I know them; we will be near since all of these cities are melted together, so I’ll visit.
We are going to go look at a house today, in a really nice place, so quiet…
I hope I hope it is the one.
And if I like it…please send me the good luck vibes so we can get it.