This Great New House: The Feeling and The Contract

While our year in the 700 square foot apartment has been charming and fun, we don't want to have guests sleeping on the floor forever, and we'd eventually like a drawer for silverware.  Thus, we've spent the last 3 months in full swing of looking for the perfect house.

I have learned, and really knew beforehand, that it doesn't take much to please me.  I felt like no less than 10 times, I walked into a house as excited as ever, knowing that "THIS" was "our house".  And then, inevitably, my all-too-down-to-earth, ever-the-most-logical, civil engineer better half would see the house and have a reason why "THIS" was NOT in fact "our house", for any one of a variety of reasons that he switched back and forth between.  Location, location, location, the backyard is too small, it's too close to 485, it's too far from your work, it's too far from my work, the traffic on that road goes in the wrong direction at the time of day that we travel (welcome to the BIG city), the master is too far away from other bedrooms, it needs too much work, the yard is too steep, there's no pool in the neighborhood, it's too small, it's too big, the neighbors don't take care of their yard, and it goes on and on.  We joked throughout that Sean had a "bag of negatives" that he could just reach in and pick from.  In reality, anyone who knows Sean knows that he's just incredibly meticulous, detail oriented, a wonderful provider, someone who cares what time of day that his not-the-best-driver wife has to travel down I-77 on the way to work, etc.  I have to say that as frustrating as consistent denial can be, I knew that when Sean finally felt that "THIS" was "our house", that it would be the right decision.  And that moment came last Thursday night.  The 11-teenth house that I wanted him to see that I loved online, he looked around, looked at me, and said "I think this is it".  And after sleeping on it, we came to agreement that THIS house, is the perfect one for us.

So after calling and negotiating what we both feel to be an extremely fair deal, we went and signed our lives away on 46 different pieces of paper, wrote a check, and are officially under contract on our beautiful new house :)  Afterwards, we both felt a little sick, which is normal I think, and pending our loan coming through, closing is tentatively set for May 26th.

Sean signing...initialing...signing...initialing...signing...

Switching out the green "available" Monopoly house in the community to a red "sold" monopoly house