Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Home Sweet Home (or Mortgage sweet Mortgage)



So, here it is. We have finally found a house!!!! It has taken many many moons and we've looked at some crap and some majorly over priced average houses but it was all worth it (hopefully!). We are under contract and will be closing Sept. 15th (at the latest, hopefully earlier, but we'll see). We've got to do a little work before we move in. The only thing that MUST be done is putting a shower in the bathroom, it's only got a tub. So I think we're going to just redo the whole bathroom now instead of putting in the shower then redoing the whole thing later anyway! Also, we have to strip off wallpaper before we can paint. And, we're trying to decide if we want to pull up the carpet & redo the wood floors now or wait until later ('cause ya just never know what you'll find! And I don't know that we can afford new carpet everywhere if the wood is crappy or damaged). However the downside is, if we wait until later we won't be able to walk through most of the house when refinishing the floors. The dilemas of a soon to be homeowner! And, one of the best parts of all, Faith has a large fenced in backyard to play in! She really loves to be outside & our apartment sucks for that (let's be honest here, it sucks for many other reasons too).
Regardless of everything else, I have some paint colors picked out & I'm ready to move! Happy dance & this time I don't care if anyone is looking!

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Mmm...that's bean dip!

Last night I was eating some veggies & hummus. Faith wanted some so I shared. She said she wanted dip with hers & I wasn't sure how it would go since I've never given her hummus. So I said "ok" & passed the jar (yes, the jar. I usually make my own but was feeling lazy & wanted to see if the jarred was good). So she takes a bite & says "Mmm..that's bean dip!" Why yes Faith, it is. How on earth did you get so smart? I don't know where she gets some of this stuff! I'm pretty certain that she hasn't had any hummus at her babysitters house & not at our familes so I'm perplexed. Apparently she just knows what she tastes I guess!