10 000 hits!!

Wow! I just missed a massive milestone in my stats - I reached 10 000 hits and didn't even know it! I started this blog almost exactly a year and a half years and it's grown with me (very slowly at times due to my less than regular posts!) through rough and happy times. I don't know who bothers to read my random ramblings and I don't really care if anyone does...I just needed a place to share my thoughts and feelings, an outlet of sorts and this forum has been just that for me.

 

So thank you if you follow my posts and if you just see this one, that's cool too ;-) 

The whole "Keep Calm and Carry On" thing is SO 2012 I know, but at times in life it really is less of a cliché and more of a reality for some (myself included!) I'll think about if it should stay or go, but for now HAPPY FRIDAY!!

Good things come to those who wait

 

 

I truly despise the saying "good things come to those who wait" but recently it's been all to apt for my life. For years I waited for a man, a ring, a promise, a wedding, a house, a home and then they all came - pretty much all at once! Since getting engaged, it's been a whirlwind of planning, dreaming and watching it all come together.

While the wedding plans tick along, we decided it was time to re-start our search for a home. We'd spent about 4 months last year sussing out the market with very little success. It was a depressing experience seeing what you got for so much money! On Sunday we reluctantly got in the car and visited the 3 properties that met our requirements from the weekend paper.

By chance, one of the emails I'd sent of enquiring about a house got answered in minutes and we then headed to the house that wasn't on show. We really liked it, it ticked the boxes and it met the lower end of our budget. It seemed to good to be trued! After a second visit the following day, we took another day to think about it and then put in an offer.

We'd had a disappointment last year when trying to put in an offer (there had been 4 offers in the first 24 hours of the property being on the market and we lost out) so I didn't get my hopes up. Even when we found out that the offer had been accepted, I was calm. Only the following day, a week after we had first viewed the house, did it sink in that soon I'll be able to knock nails in the walls without worrying about filling them up when I leave! I won't have to worry about the Dracula of a letting agent that I have to deal with currently. I won't have to feel insecure about getting "kicked out" if the owner decides to move in or sell. I will have a house to decorate and make a home :-) Once this all sunk in the Pinterest focus shifted from wedding décor to home décor!

If all goes well, we'll be moving in around August, giving us a nice amount of time to settle in before the craziness of the wedding. Touch wood, fingers crossed, prayers said.