Listed below are some life updates. Cue the music ‘I Dreamed A Dream: the Glee model!’
I’ve been singing this music since I noticed Les Mis final 12 months, and it’s very becoming for all of the life adjustments I’ve been by way of previously six months.
The most important replace is that we bought our home.
It occurred quite a bit quicker then I ever thought it might. We determined to put up for sale in early 2026 and two of our realtor mates agreed to co-list as sellers brokers (how may we ever select?!). We used Ivy Haines at Nest Realty and Jeff Mattie at CORE – they had been each superior should you want a realtor!
Earlier than we knew it, the home was staged they usually had been internet hosting a dealer’s open for different realtors. It regarded SO GOOD staged that I want we’d employed a stager years in the past!
The following day we had a full value supply earlier than it even went available on the market.
This whole course of was extraordinarily bittersweet. It’s very unhappy to consider the desires we had for the home and all of the recollections shared there, from bringing Birch house from the hospital by way of the pandemic and into the main renovation we did considering we’d reside for a few years.
This home was my house for 11 years – the longest I’ve lived anyplace since I left for faculty. I used to be very connected to it. However everyone knows house is the place the guts is, and my coronary heart moved out final 12 months.
By way of the spring we bought furnishings, moved valuables and junk, and cleared out the closets. Gosh it was a lot work! And final month we stated goodbye as the brand new homeowners moved in. It’s nonetheless somewhat onerous to wrap my thoughts round, however life adjustments are by no means straightforward.
A Window Was Opened
And as these items go, when life closes a door, it opens a window. And typically a window with a really good view!
I had simply re-signed my lease and purchased a brand new washer/dryer for my rental. I had no intention of shifting and supposed to remain not less than one other 12 months. After which one evening, when my mother and father had been visiting, we went for a stroll and I observed one of many townhouses on my “I’d like to purchase this after I’m prepared” neighborhood was on the market.
I casually texted my realtor pal Ivy asking if we must always go in “simply to see what they’re like.” Throughout our stroll by way of the following morning, I had that “when you already know, you already know” feeling. Every thing about this townhouse was what I assumed I might search for after I was prepared to purchase once more. I spent the day attempting to inform myself it was not an excellent time to purchase a home. I crunched numbers on ChatGPT and requested my mother and father what I ought to do. And when it got here down to creating a call, I couldn’t consider an excellent cause not to go for it.
So I made a proposal, which was accepted, and we’ll be shifting in later this month!
The brand new home is similar to our rental, which I like for thus many causes, but it surely has all of the upgrades I might need to truly purchase. The primary function within the new place is the worst factor about my rental: the view. Proper now I look into my neighbor’s porch, and on the new place I look out on a mountain.
Present view:
It additionally has a beautiful kitchen with nicer home equipment, a greater format, extra home windows, an precise laundry room, a bonus loft area, greater bogs, and the most important promoting level: a tremendous rooftop deck for entertaining! We’re additionally so excited to affix this neighborhood group the place there are many children my boys’ ages.
Whereas I’m not wanting ahead to packing and shifting once more, I do know as soon as all of the mud has actually settled I can be so glad.
The boys and I are heading to Common Studios Florida to have a good time the start of summer time and all issues Harry Potter. I’ll be again with all of the enjoyable of that journey in per week or so.
xx,
Kath
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