Our New Home

It's official! The papers are signed, funded and recorded. We have our house!

We agreed to let the sellers lease back the house for a month and while I'm really glad to help them out (they have a little one), I can't wait for them to get out so I can go running through every room of MY house. I fully intend to roll around on the carpet for sh*ts and giggles, turn on the fireplace for no reason, maybe stick a pizza in the oven just to eat it sitting on the living floor before our furniture arrives.

First order of business: pack. Scratch that. Drink booze. Second order of business: pack. Third thing on my list: stalk my tenants by driving past the house slowly and peaking into the house to see how far along they are with packing. It's creepy, I know. There's no sense in denying it.

I'm trying not to get overly excited because until we start moving our stuff in, it's not totally our home yet. Patience is good, I keep reminding myself. It all begins in T-Minus 32 days.

Between family crises and major unexpected life changes, 2010 was probably one of the worst years of my life. I want to leave it and never come back. I'm hoping this new home is a symbol of what's to come-- new beginnings and dreams coming true.