The Wait for our Home

Happy Fourth of July, everyone! I’ve been neglecting my blog and my plan to be more adventurous lately. Well, maybe I haven’t been neglecting my plan. Instead of trying extreme sports, the beginning of the year was dominated by trying to buy a house, which has been its own adventure. After a few months of frustratingly trying to buy a foreclosure, we gave up and bought the move-in-ready across the street from that foreclosure. After piles of paperwork and endless phone calls, now we just wait. Closing is scheduled in two weeks, and our moving date is at the end of August. We think of all the things we can do once we own a house: paint, store Eriq’s gear in our own basement and shed (instead of 45 minutes away at his school), garden, grill out, and buy pets. I’m jonesing to buy two kittens soon and we do want a dog, but that will be more of a commitment and we’ll need to build a fence first. We also will live just a few doors down from Eriq’s sister, brother-in-law and our niece, which will be exciting. After all this excitement, I’m becoming impatient waiting to move in and decorate our new house. I feel as if we’re at a standstill as I wait for the excitement to begin, hoping I haven’t romanticized it too much.

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