The Light: We Bought a House


We have seen the light at the end of the tunnel. Three months of bizarre happenings and stressful life events/decisions to make and it all came together in one week. On Tuesday we got Hadley's stitches out and got the news that her mole pathology came back all clear. No signs of abnormal cells and one happy Mama later, we were viewing another house that evening. On to the next thing, because we never seem to get time to celebrate the successes around here before there's something else that needs immediate attention. And so, began the story of us buying a house.
You read that right.
We bought a house.
Like, as in, saw it on Tuesday night and had an offer in within a matter of hours.
And guess what? We got it!
And it was on the market less than a week!
Only 18 minutes outside of the city and from our current home, we're actually going to be living in a real neighborhood. It's been a difficult, albeit brief, house shopping experience for us. Hubby wanted to live in the city, I wanted to move out towards the country, neither of us wanted to live in suburbia. However, this house was the perfect mix. With it's close location to the city and layout not resembling any of the qualities we disliked about super planned communities, it's perfect. I'm even gonna be a whopping 8 minutes closer to my parents (they'll be 22 minutes from us). It couldn't have been more perfect in location. The schools? I'm not so sure on. I've heard mixed reviews and the school is ranked a 7 out of 10. However this was not a selling point for us because we're thinking about private anyway.
The real kicker? The community is super nice. I'm not gonna lie here, we bought a house yesterday without knowing the community had a lake in it. You might think I'm joking but I kid you not. Only we would buy a home and not know this right? Right after buying the house I found this website and almost fell out of my chair. Then my parents called to tell me they drove through the neighborhood and what do you know? It has a lake. Well I'll be damned. Clearly we were looking to buy a house quickly and missed some things. Let's hope we didn't miss anything too serious.
I leave you with pictures. You'll notice they aren't mine, nor is the furniture. These are just a few they had online so I hijacked them for your viewing pleasure. Now, the house is a Cape, Colonial style so I'll admit the most important selling point (for me anyway) was that it's the perfect Christmas home!! Images of Colonial Williamsburg danced in my head and I was sold.
Now on to making renovation and decor lists... I see some painting in our future.
I may have also been sold on 4 working fireplaces...
Fingers crossed all goes well at the home inspection tomorrow, and we close April 10th!


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