Closing has been tentatively set.. Friday January 17th 2014. The day we have been waiting for since first seeing the house.. August 14th 2013 (yes 5 full months of waiting), and we are now less then a week away! Cross your finger's it goes through on Friday.
So I guess welcome to our house blog! You probably saw the name of the blog.. Half A Mile Up.. and Yes, it means exactly what it says, our house is half a mile up the street!
Creative huh? I thought so!
On this blog we will be documenting all the changes that happen in our cozy Yorktown house, as well as some awesome DIY projects Chris and I are both looking forward to completing!
I LOVE DIY and Home blogs so I figured why not start my own to share my ideas, or show other people that you CAN make your own things for your home and you don't need to be super crafty or creative! If you can read and look at pictures you can do anything!
I will start off this blog by giving you the back story on our new house .. We found out we were expecting another little bundle of joy on July 1st 2013 (Happy Canada Day!), and we had discussed the desire to move to a bigger home. We were living in a 2 bedroom town house that Chris purchase when he got hired by the FDNY in 2007. For the first 3 years of our marriage it was perfect. It was easy to keep up with, didn't need any work and we had awesome neighbors! There was no yard to worry about mowing, no driveway to worry about shoveling in the freezing cold winter but there were downsides to it as well. Not having a yard was one.. we have a 4 year old lab and with a toddler we needed somewhere for them all to play and get their energy out. We also realized when my parents and 1 brother were visiting that once this baby was born there would be NO room to have people over to visit and be comfortable!
So the search began!
We decided to wait and see if we found something before putting our house on the market, we knew it would only be a matter of time before we found what we wanted. We didn't realize it would be one of the first homes we looked at! With that said an offer went in and our house went on the market!
However we were NOT expecting to accept an offer on our house 36hrs after it went on the market, but when someone comes in with an offer at full asking price you don't say no.
We thought we were good with the house we wanted and then our hearts were broken.. someone offered all cash and the sellers took that offer. So our hunt began again, but in our hearts we both knew that little ranch we fell in love with was the house for our family. Every house we saw we compared to the ranch and nothing made us say YES!
I kept having some crazy dreams about the deal falling through at the last minute and we got the house but really what were the chances of that happening!
WELL..... It happened!!! The day before they were supposed to close the deal fell through and the sellers came back to us! So our September ended on a great note! Now it was just a matter of closing on our house so we can get the ball rolling on the new place. We ended up closing on our sale November 15th and moved into Chris' brother Mike's house until we closed on the new property.
We all figured it would take a month MAYBE a month a half.. we are now pushing 2 months. It has been a little tough to get used to living in the same room as Madison, every noise she makes we wake up and same goes for her.. if we cough she wakes up, if a phone alarm goes off.. you guessed it .. she wakes up! But we are so lucky to have had a place to stay!
The final step in this whole process took the longest.. we needed a new survey on the house for the title. 3 weeks it took.. the longest 3 weeks of this entire process! Our 3 week window started right before Christmas so having time off from work, Madison home from school and spending the holidays without our usual holiday stuff made it seem so much longer!
But yesterday evening our lawyer called us and said it was done and on Monday we will have firm details about the closing!
I won't lie, I am a little scared about this whole thing, I have moved tons of times so it is not the actual move itself I am worried about it is the getting everyone used to the new arrangements BEFORE we throw another baby into the mix. So we have 2 months to get Madison used to the new house, unpack and prep for a baby! I know its possible and we have our amazing family and friends that have offered to help with all of this to make it a little easier on us!
Stay tuned.. I will post a few pictures of the house in the upcoming days so you can see the before pictures :)
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