The Long Espera

It has been a long wait. We have been busy with summer fun, but the wait had just about stayed its welcome when we got notice that our offer had been accepted by the bank! YES. We got the house! My husband doesn't want me getting overly excited about it because our lender still has to do his magic in less then 3 weeks. If he can get it all together then it looks like we will be closing on August 24th and the seller will then have 7 days to vacate the home. OMG! We hope to be in the house mid to late September. We have to re-sand and stain the hardwood floors, prime and paint the inside walls, clean the duct work and reconfigure where the washer and dryer lives. And those things cost $$$ so we are trying to be extra frugal right now hoping that is all that HAS to be done before we move in. The crazy thing is we only have seen the house one time for about 20 minutes and now it is ours. We have been doing a lot of research on owning chickens. I am meeting with a friend who has over 15 chickens after the kids go back to school and getting a chicken 101. We are tempted to buy an igloo from omlet (I love the CUBE). Yes they are so ugly, and plastic but did you see the trays that pull out so easily to clean it and you can just hose it off! No cracks in the wood for mites to live. I love it, but they are again $$$ so we must save! We are researching used sitting mowers for the yard(another $$$). SO we are working hard here, putting as much money as we can away right now, enjoying being DEBT FREE and looking forward to having a place soon to call home. I am weirdly not excited to see our "stuff" in storage and looking forward to going through each item before it enters our new space asking myself 3 questions:
Does it have a purpose?
Is it something we could live without?
Could someone else use it more then us?

I lay in bed at night in visioning my new pantry full of beautiful glass containers full of simple raw foods and basic staples. This is my one chance to organize it right from the start ( I LOVE doing this kind of thing! Totally in my element).

We opened our first Roth IRA last week. This is a big deal considering we should have done this 11 years ago and I am turning 40 at the end of this month. It feels great just knowing that we got that ball rolling. Oh how we will teach our children differently.


I just finished reading a fabulous book called Parenting by the Book by John Rosemond. What a great read....maybe the best parenting book I have read!

I will keep you posted. please pray for us that the house sale goes through. This has been a long wait. But the best things we must wait for. It teaches us patients and so much more. I am so grateful for my family and our health and am anxiously awaiting a home to start new memories in.

Be back soon!