So we bought a house! That's right, we're homeowners now. Holy cow! Although we've been running around it all day it really hasn't sunk in for us yet. At the moment it's all surreal. We're back in our respective apartments but out there there's a building that we actually
own. Best of all it's near Jen, Kevin and little Nolan so we'll get to see them a whole lot more often!
This house has been the answer to all of our prayers. It's practically immaculate. They left us the appliances, which were modern and in excellent condition. They did all the repair the home inspector found. Even the fireplace is clean! We had looked into getting a three-bedroom house where we could raise a family and look for a larger house when the family grew, but with this house we'll never need to move. And with the way the housing market has been this was a fantastic deal.
God had been really good to us throughout this process, even when He really didn't have to be during the time we were freaking out over the mortgage process. The heart says to have faith but the brain says to freak out. We had hoped and prayed that this would be one, and while we knew that God heard all our prayers but didn't always say "yes" to all of them, we were totally glad he gave us a resounding "yes!" to this!
So we just moved in a few boxes of stuff we knew we wouldn't be using, ordered a pizza from Monical's (if you haven't tried them you should) and a bottle of wine from Oliver. Of course we were too excited to really do what we had planned, which was to sit down with the pizza and wine. We wound up munching on the pizza at the kitchen counter while figuring out what should go where. We looked in the back yard which was where I came face to face with the responsibilities of home ownership - the trees had started shedding - all six of them! So shortly after it was off to Lowe's to buy what Dori called "man toys" - a rake and a leafblower. I'm totally psyched about the leafblower. I have to admit that I never really got why people got excited about going to home improvement stores but I miraculously got the gist of it the moment I stepped in there this evening.
All in all this has been an interesting three months - I had gotten engaged to a most wonderful woman; I discovered what i meant to be a fan of Dave Matthews Band, I had an almost near-death experience and lost my trusty ol' Civic in the process, then wound up with the car I had originally wanted all along, and now
this - my head is still spinning.
So we thought we'd just let y'all know - I'd write more but I'm simply exhausted. The adrenaline and stress are finally starting to bleed off and my head's starting to hurt a little. So I'm going to take an asprin, drink lots of water, and head off to bed while to dream of our life to come.
We'll see you there.
-Tom
