We made an offer!

John and I made an offer on a house today! Exciting and scary. We've been house hunting about a month and have physically looked through about 15 houses. This house was on the market just a few days - hence a lot of showings in the last 3 days. We looked at the house the first time on Thursday and another showing arrived as we were leaving. The house has had about 7 showings in 3 days. We went for a second showing today. We submitted the offer and have to wait...the hard part. We gave them until 5pm Monday since it is a weekend. I'd rather not get into a bidding war but it seems to be a popular house. The house is a 2 story with 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a 2-car attached garage, a gas fireplace, and a finished basement. It has most of our "like to haves" and a wonderful kitchen. I am trying not to get too attached to the house since anything can happen at this point. It's exciting to think about - and a bit scary (going into debt again for a large amount).

Mid-August

Wow! It is the middle of August already. Obviously, I have not been blogging. I thought about it several times and have some photos - still in the camera. The August heat is oppressive some days all I do is melt and get cranky. I look forward to fall - cooler weather, my favorite time of year, and it has always been a "beginning" season for me: school, projects, activities, etc. I tend to do more in the fall and plan out things for the year. So one of my many plans is to blog more - not ready to commit to "regularly" yet. Plus I don't know if anyone reads this or if I am basically talking to myself.

John and I are house hunting. It is slow going but on purpose. We started with some tight criteria to see what is out there. We have looked at several houses. For one house we did additional research since we both liked it but it didn't pan out. We are relaxing our search parameters and now have a list of 30 to check out online. We'll peruse the list to weed out most and get a list to see in person. It has been interesting to go through people's houses. I've been getting ideas of what to do and what not to do. It is amazing what people DON'T do when they know people will be looking around - we do check out closet sizes and such. It appears some do not care if their house sells or not as the toys scattered about and the mess makes it less appealing. This is my first time house hunting and (hopefully) buying.