House Update

Five days left until my first house no longer belongs to me. Seven days left until we drive away forever. Fortunately, I have been way too busy to be sad about that. For the first few weeks I felt like I was ahead in the packing. Now that it's so close, I feel very behind.

It was going to work out so well. The house we chose would be ready when we needed it to be, and we would most likely be able to move our things from one house to the other with no problems. Then Michelle changed her mind. Todd says it's what I always do when I shop. I make my purchase, and then on the way out the door, I'm still looking around at everything again, just in case there is something I might have missed. I keep shopping even after I have checked out. I did this with our new house. The more I visited the house and thought about what it would be like to live there, the more I wasn't so sure I wanted to be there anymore. We had picked the brand new house over the option of an older house in a prettier neighborhood. I changed my mind. I would much rather be in a neighborhood I love...a place where I feel like I'm home when I pull in to the community. So my sweet, patient, wonderful husband let me change my mind. He overlooked all the thousands of dollars we would be losing as a result of this mind change. He overlooked all the hours of time he spent on the phone over the past week with the mortgage company to get a loan for the new house. He even overlooked the fact that we would have to put our things in storage and be homeless for awhile all because his wife can't make up her mind. I love him.

We found a house in my pretty neighborhood. The one I wanted all along. I'm excited now. I couldn't say that before and now I can say I'm excited. It's a much better feeling to have when you're about to move your whole family to a new place.