Listed here are some life updates. Cue the track ‘I Dreamed A Dream: the Glee model!’
I’ve been singing this track since I noticed Les Mis final yr, and it’s very becoming for all of the life modifications I’ve been by up to now six months.
The largest replace is that we bought our home.
It occurred loads quicker then I ever thought it might. We determined to market it in early 2026 and two of our realtor pals 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 if you happen to want a realtor!
Earlier than we knew it, the home was staged and so they had been internet hosting a dealer’s open for different realtors. It appeared SO GOOD staged that I want we’d employed a stager years in the past!
The subsequent day we had a full value supply earlier than it even went in the marketplace.
This whole course of was extraordinarily bittersweet. It’s very unhappy to consider the desires we had for the home and all of the reminiscences shared there, from bringing Birch house from the hospital by the pandemic and into the main renovation we did pondering we’d stay there 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 hooked up to it. However everyone knows house is the place the center is, and my coronary heart moved out final yr.
By the spring we bought furnishings, moved valuables and junk, and cleared out the closets. Gosh it was a lot work! And final month we mentioned goodbye as the brand new homeowners moved in. It’s nonetheless somewhat arduous to wrap my thoughts round, however life modifications are by no means straightforward.
A Window Was Opened
And as this stuff go, when life closes a door, it opens a window. And generally 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 transferring and meant to remain at the least one other yr. After which one night time, 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 once I’m prepared” neighborhood was on the market.
I casually texted my realtor good friend Ivy asking if we should always go in “simply to see what they’re like.” Throughout our stroll by the subsequent morning, I had that “when you already know, you already know” feeling. The whole lot about this townhouse was what I believed I’d search for once I was prepared to purchase once more. I spent the day making an attempt to inform myself it was not 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 motive not to go for it.
So I made a suggestion, which was accepted, and we’ll be transferring in later this month!
The brand new home is similar to our rental, which I like for therefore many causes, however it has all of the upgrades I’d need to really 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 loos, and the largest promoting level: a tremendous rooftop deck for entertaining! We’re additionally so excited to hitch this neighborhood group the place there are many children my boys’ ages.
Whereas I’m not wanting ahead to packing and transferring once more, I do know as soon as all of the mud has actually settled I might 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 every week or so.
xx,
Kath