How exciting! My husband and I have finally closed out on our house. We had started our house search before we got married in April 2011. So we had been searching for a little under a year already. It was a bit of an overwhelming experience. Once we got married my husband moved in with me at my parents house & we lived there for about nine months. After looking at so many houses and not being able to close out on any of them, I was starting to get anxious & lose hope. Once we found a house we liked, we placed a bid & was told there was many bidders & we would have to raise our bid. My husband & I didnt want to go any higher & thought to ourselves this house wasn't for us, so we continued our search. A few days later our realtor calls me to let me know the seller had accepted our bid (without having to raise our bid). Go figure! We went back to take a look at the house one last time & decided to move forward with the house. Time passed & we had to fill out a few other forms & ran into a few situations in between. Our house inspector gave us FREE service after my husband waited on him for about 4 hours after our appointment time. I was dissapointed & emailed them a not so nice email but our inspector was kind enough to take it upon himself and after he was done with the inspection told my husband there was no charge. SWEET! Then days later we were told the appraisal of the home was almost $10k less that the sell price. We panicked as the deal could go either way. The seller could either deny us & not want to sell the house at the appraisal value OR accept & we would be buying a home for a lot cheaper than we expected.
Well they accepted & we ended up signing our paperwork on January 5th, 2012. A great way to start off our new year! Once we signed our paperwork, we were called in less than an hour that it was a done deal & we could start moving in. It felt surreal! We immediately picked up the key, went to a furniture store to pick out our furniture, ran to my parents house to start loading up our vehicles. Luckily, we were prepared & had packed most of our belongings in boxes/bins. Good thing we had asked for a couple days off from work & then we had the weekend to get a chance to move in. It was an exhausting 4 days but we were extremely excited. The first few days it took us a while to settle in. By Monday, we had to return to work & that's when it hit us. Waking up in our bedroom, making breakfast & coffee before work, our new route to work & then coming back home to our new house to cook & clean. We loved it, despite the chores.
Were at our second week in our home and we couldn't be any happier. We are still trying to decorate & settle in. So far, our dinning room table/chairs and new TV & TV console have been delivered. For now we are having to sit on our elegant & comfortable lawn chairs. NOT! Were hoping to get our living room set soon to make our downstairs complete. Now the upstairs, will have to wait. I love to decorate, I have so many ideas of what I want to do but now that I have a home to decorate I feel overwhelmed. I get to make the decisions on what color will our rooms be, what room theme we will have in each room, what picture frames will go up, etc. Luckily, I have found an awesome website (Pinterest), that has helped me come up with a few DIY projects and decorating ideas for our home.
Now that we have made this huge step in our lives, what is next?? Some people say to get pregnant, others advise that we wait & enjoy our marriage. For now, we are living day by day. If God decides to bless us with a child, then so be it. I know what ever comes our way, we will accept it with arms wide open. God knows the best timing, just like he knew when was the best time for us to find our home. When I think back to all the dissapointments that we went through while we were house searching, it makes me realize it wasnt our time yet. Everything has fallen into place! So whether we end up pregnant in a couple of months OR decide to enjoy our marriage in our new home or to travel, we are living in the moment for now.
Sometimes I want to pinch myself because it feels so unreal. I never thought I would see the day I would be proposed to, my wedding day, or have a house of my own. Here I am, looking back at those moments that I never imagined. Let's see what God has in store for us next..... Cant wait for our Housewarming Party!!!
Thanks once again to my readers. Love, Judy 8A
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