It's been a little over a week since I last sat down to write and I'm struggling a bit this morning. So many things have changed over the past two weeks, it all makes my head spin a little. The weekend before vacation we were visiting with Brian's parents, chatting and someone brought up his grandmother's house. She passed away about a month ago and left a house that my father in-law and his siblings were planning to sell. Hmmm...Brian and I are desperately looking to get out of our apartment. So the talk turned to us possibly buying the house. We gathered up Beau and all of us headed over to take a look at the place. I had only been there once, and had only seen one room. Well, we got there and to my surprise there is a big fenced-in backyard. And four bedrooms, and a sun room...and my head instantly filled with ideas. The sun room would be a breakfast nook/green house. Beau would have his own bedroom, I could have a craft room and Brian would have the obligatory 'man cave'.
Things moved fast from there. Two days later Brian was putting together paperwork for a mortgage pre-approval. Two days after that we got pre-approved. This past Saturday we went and signed the preliminary contract. And BAM, we are getting a house!!!
Holy cow, I thought it would be years before I would be saying that. The house needs a lot of work but it has tons of potential. We have to get the inspection, appraisal and termite inspection done, and if all goes well we will be closing on July 28th. I can't wipe the smile off my face right now. Thinking about the dogs running in the backyard, seeing Beau chase after them, hopefully having another baby, it is perfection. And the fact that I get to share it all with my wonderful husband, that he made it all happen is like a dream.
I haven't posted anything on Facebook yet, which has been hard for me to do, I think because it does still seem like a dream. I don't think I will fully believe it until the day we move in. We've been over there a few times to look at it now, I've already picked out paint for most of the rooms and have planned my flower gardens. Brian already has plans for his man cave and his garage. The dogs have not been over there yet, but I'm sure they will have some plans of their own for the backyard, Ruby likes to dig.
So, obviously, the house is the biggest change for all of us, but Beau has made some pretty big changes, too. We spent last week at the beach with some friends and their baby girl. Watching the two little ones play was adorable. Their baby is about a month older than Beau, so naturally she is doing things he hadn't yet. Beau is very observant and apparently watching his little friend crawl around the floor was the motivation he needed. I was sitting on the floor playing with him lat night and watched as he scooted right across the floor to get my cell phone. Now he doesn't want to do anything but practice, and each time he gets a little higher off his belly and a little farther in distance. Too cute! He is also babbling more and saying Mama and Dada, which any parenting book will tell you is just him working on his speech. Brian and I, of course, are in agreement that he is directing it towards us. Our little boy never ceases to amaze me. He is in my opinion the best thing that has ever happened. I'm pretty sure he will be walking next week.
With all of the changes over the past (almost) seven months, I have been overwhelmed, dealt with depression and anxiety, but all of a sudden things seem to falling into place. Like life is saying, 'here, you guys deserve this', and putting all of the pieces together.
With that said, I think I will end my writing for today. I have to go play with my beautiful little boy and pack for our new house!
*If there are words missing an M please ignore it. I try to spell check everything but the M button on my keyboard sticks and for some reason spell check doesn't always catch it.
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