This whole house buying process has been, well, a process. I wish I could say it's been all sunshine and rainbows, but then where would the fun be in that!? It's so exciting to be venturing out into home ownership... and honestly, most of the time I'm very excited and optimistic! This is our 4th attempt at buying a home within the past year.
The first time was a few months before getting married and our lives were in too much of a transition, so we thought waiting a few months wouldn't be a big deal. Attempt #2 came last fall. We found a cute little house, put on offer on it and 2 days later Brad lost his job. Ugh. Attempt #3 came at the beginning of this year. All I did was call our loan officer to make an appointment to meet with him and the next day I ended up on bed rest in the hospital for the next 3 months. I finally resigned myself to the realization that things would happen for us when the timing was right. #4... I'm avoiding calling this time around an attempt. I'm being optimistic!
It's hard when you want something so badly that is so incredibly good for your family. Waiting for everything to finalize is SOOOO stressful! Living in limbo is not one of my strengths... definitely. We've cleaned out almost everything, packed up what we can live without for a while, and have even planned a yard sale. I feeling pretty good about what I've accomplished... now if we would only close on the house! Did I mention I'm not good with this whole living in limbo thing?
We knew from the moment that we drove up to this house that it was where we were suppose to live. We had done quite a lot of house hunting in the past year, so we were really aware of what we wanted and what we could afford. This house had a feeling that none of the other places had. We continued to look at a few more houses. Of course I was occasionally blinded by the house with the better floor plan, better yard, better this and that. But none of the other houses we found felt good inside and out... there was always something just a little off. I always kind of walked away feeling like I was being blinded by shiny objects and fluff that didn't matter. This house (that will hopefully be ours soon) has never had anything but good feelings about it. I'm holding onto those feelings through this process while trying to remain sane!
We were hoping to close this week, but we've hit a small bump in the road... again. Hopefully this is the last of the bumps and we can plan our move for next week. Keeping my fingers crossed...
...until then, I'm "learning" to live in limbo. :)
