First day of silence…

Today is the first day since we began this home buying process, that I have not been on the phone with the lender,  one of the assistants, one of the real estate agents (one who happens to be my aunt) or discussing updates via email.

Our appraisal came in yesterday and our house met all of the requirements placed upon it by the FHA’s guidelines … and now that our loan is off in final underwriting land we officially had our first day of silence.

Friday Friday Friday!

Starting to gather a headcount for people that are coming to our painting party! We are going to paint all the rooms in the house, well, not all of them, but the majority of them in one night! We are going to have a lot of extra hands for painting! Need to get more brushes and rollers!

Can’t wait. Pizza, Booze and Family, what’s better than that?

The Secret Room

We had to go over to the new house today to meet with my husbands Uncle Mike, who is an electrician, to look at running some wiring in the house. The current owners, who are really nice, had already moved all of their furniture out and it was the first time we had seen the house without any furniture in it.

There is a very large unfinished basement, with one section of the basement that we’re going to finish and the other side has the heating/cooling units and such and the workbench and the washer dryer, etc.. then there is this room that was packed to rafters with storage boxes and fishing stuff. Well, I  didn’t realize how large the space really was until it was empty.

I have an office!!! A Craft space!! My own office. I forfeited the fourth bedroom for Robert to have his own office since I spend most of my time on the laptop. I have a list of all of the things I’m going to do to that room, in order. Now don’t forget the space is about 4ft by 7ft. It’s a small space, but we are going to build a desk in the far end, there are already shelves in two sections, AND a safe in the wall…

And a….. wait for it….. wait for it……….

An antique ice grinder on the wall..

I… I mean…. WE couldn’t be more excited!