We close tomorrow

After over 6 weeks of waiting and losing hope, we finally get to close on our house tomorrow at 3pm!

The process was one of the more difficult things we have ever done. We looked at houses in our price range, out of our price range (high and low) without a lot of luck. Everything we looked at that we were told we could afford was a DUMP and the things we couldn't afford weren't so great either.

We had all but give up hope and were just going to put the whole process on hold until spring arrived hoping there would be some new choices for us. We were sitting at home one Thursday night when I got an email from our realtor with a house that had just been put on the market in our area. I opened the email to find a house that looked PERFECT. Was I skeptical of the house? You bet I was. Every house I saw that looked perfect always ended up being a big old dump. We decided that it was worth a look and hopefully we would be proved wrong. We set the appointment up for Saturday morning at 10am.

Saturday arrived and we jumped in the car and brought Charlie along (Rick's dad) so he could check things out too (he used to be a windows/doors/kitchen salesmen so he knows what to look for.) We arrived and were pleasantly surprised by the look of the house. Upon going inside my heart skipped a beat as I could see myself living in this house and bringing our little one home in May to this very house. We were the first people to look at the house and because of the price knew we had to make a move quick.

We talked about the house (pros/cons) when we got home and decided that all the pros outweighed the cons (not that I can think of any cons at this point). We decided that Monday we would make an offer. Once Monday got here we called our realtor and got the process moving. We signed our lives away for the first time and put in our offer. There was another couple looking at the house that afternoon and we were afraid they would also put in an offer (they did) so we upped our offer a bit and less than 24 hours later our offer had been accepted.

Like I said before this processes has had its up and downs but it has been worth every minute and every tear shed.

Here's hoping for a good day tomorrow and that nothing goes wrong!!!