Today is the Day!

In a few hours....THIS house will be ours!!!

Everything worked out with the Realtor who was selling it..I guess he decided it was better to pay the fees himself and have a sure sale by the 13th....

Sometime today CDR will be meeting with the Realtors and Lawyers...and signing Closing Agreements!!! Hopefully he can move in tonight and get RIGHT to work on the Renovations..LOL

I have no idea when I'll be able to move up. I'm thinking I might be stuck here for another month or so. This week has been busy with the Drama Teen home for Spring break. We've been having fun shopping and eating..LOL. I'll try to post some pics later..

Next week, after taking Drama Teen back up to JMU, I'll be heading down to Florida with the Co-ed so she can move in with her boyfriend. He's stationed in Pensacloa. We'll stop and visit my brother along the way, drop her stuff off in Pensacola, swing by Biloxi to see my mom, and then I'll drop Co-ed off in Pensacola. I have mixed emotions about the whole thing. I will miss my Co-ed and I'm not overly thrilled at the 'living together" thing...but she's 21 , and needs to live her own life.

Road Trip

Co-ed and I are off to Harrisonburg this morning to pick up the Drama Teen for Spring Break!!! We will also be visiting my SIL and her family as they live only an hour from Harrisonburg and then we will be driving into DC tomorrow to meet up with a bunch of our Friends from Church at the Bascilica. The Confirmation class goes there every year and other members are invited to come along too. It's always a really fun day. The Bascilica is absolutely Beautiful!

We'll be staying at the George Washington Hotel in Winchester....according to SIL George Washington actually slept there.

A Blipp In Our Plans......

It seems the purchase of our new home might be a little 'up in the air" now. Seems the bank we were acquiring our loan from didn't think an appraisal was needed, so one was never scheduled...apparently though, an appraisal IS necessary, but now it can't be arranged before our closing date of the 10th. The Realtor who owns the house is now upset, because he needs to close on the 10th to avoid paying extra fees associated with owning the house. He wants US to pay those fees. We are not willing to do so, so the deal may fall thru. I don't know I'm hoping he will go thru with the sale and just eat the extra cost. Either way he'll have to pay those fees , so we think he'll probably come around and go thru with the sale anyway. Hopefully. If it works out we can hopefully close on the 13th.

Frustration!!!!!!!!

Can you tell I'm Frustrated!! ARGG ..this house is starting to become a pain....why? you ask? well.....CDR and I don't exactly see eye to eye on it....He wants to completely change everything and I want to keep it mostly the same with only a few small changes....I LOVE this archway in the Living room surrounding the FrontDoor...

I love the way it frames the entrance and creats a bit of a 'foyer'...well.......HE wantsto knock out that wall and move the stairs (behind said wall) to another location....to make the living room bigger....I'M willing to live with a smaller living room to keep the Wall and Arch...HE says he'll put other Arches in somewhere else( i guess he thinks that will appease me) ...NO it wont...I want THIS Arch....I also like the way the Stairway meets the upstairs Hallway which will also be ruined if he moves the Stairs! ARGGGG! He keeps insisting and he's probably going to win and now I'm depressed because he is TOTALLY changing my COOL 1880's house!!!!!! I'm also PISSED right now if you hadn't noticed!

I have no idea why he even bothered to have me check out the house before buying it...since it really didn't matter if I 'liked' it since he plans to pretty much demolish anything I DID like!!arrg..I want to scream!

Almost Home..

sortof.....I will be flying back to Virginia tomorrow afternoon and I am pretty excited....

As much as a miss being with the CDR and want to start our new life up here, I REALLY miss being in my own home.....it's been nice visiting with the In-Laws....but......I think I am starting to wear out my welcome...LOL

I'm looking forward to being in my own house, with my own things, watching what "I" want to watch on TV...eating what "I" want to eat...etc etc. I miss cooking and baking and crafting and cleaning.....imagine that!
And , now that we've bought a home up here...hopefully it wont be too long before I'm doing all that HERE with CDR!

Offer Accepted!

So we decided to put an offer on that last house....and......it was accepted! Someone else had even put in a higher offer...but.....they wanted a bunch of work done, and the realtor(who bought the place to resell it for a quick buck) didn't want to have to deal with all that, so he accepted our offer for the house "as is". We haven't decided how we're going to finance it yet. Hopefully that decision will be made tomorrow...we were going to refinance the house in VA for a higher amount and take the extra cash to buy this house and renovate it....but.....they want about $7000 in closing costs!!! WTH!! Forget it!!!!


It's really a pretty neat house...built in the 1880's....the inside needs to be all redone....new floors...walls stripped and painted , possibly some of the walls replaced...there are drop(fake )ceilings that we plan to take out and replace with real ceilings...the kitchen needs a total renovation as do the bathrooms.....we also plan to add a 3 car garage to the back of the house there. With a Master Bedroom Suite above it. I am trying hard to convince CDR to leave as many of the Historic features of the house intact.....not that there are THAT many ..but 'd like to keep the few there are.....he initially wanted to pretty much gut the whole house and completely redo the whole interior.....I think I've convinced him otherwise.

And the best news is that we should be able to close as soon as March 10th!! So I should be able to move up soon!!!

The Zoo and Possibly a House....

Oh my the last few days have been quite busy here......on Tuesday we took the kids to the Zoo ..they had a great time....we got to feed the Giraffes, and the Lady Giraffe is going to have a baby any day now....the weather was pretty nice....a little windy but not too cold.

and Yesterday CDR and I went to look at a house that hasn't even been put on the market yet...and.........................I think we are putting an offer on it today!! It's a smaller , older home that needs a bit of work.......but it's pretty cute. Built in the 1880's, in a great old neighborhood. Only a few blocks from Quaint Downtown Two Rivers....and only about a block from the Twin Rivers. The location is perfect. The yard is a pretty good size as well. It will probably just be a temporary home to live in while our VA house still waits to be sold. Once it sells we can decide to move into a bigger , nicer home if we want. Although, I can actually see us living in this one indefinitely, once we get it fixed up....Front Entry into Living Room....there's a sunroom porch off to the left of the entry...There is another set of these leaded glass windows on the other side of the fireplace....The Kitchen definitely needs renovating....we may even knock out the wall behind the stove and open it up to the Dining Room....The Dining Room isn't too bad.....needs new flooring....we'll put wood flooring, I think....The bedrooms all need new carpet or flooring of some sort. Wallpaper stripped and Paint....ceilings redone...we might even knock down some walls and/or expand out.This is the Master....we think we can expand outwards a little. There is also a tiny room right next to it that will probably become a walk-in closet or maybe a master bath?The paneling and wallpaper will definitely come down and the carpet replaced!Another room....Upstairs bath.....needs total renovation....that white door to the right leads to a balcony off the bathroom??? why????

There's another half bath downstairs that I forgot to get a picture of...it's lovely....brick walls..red carpeting.....black accents.......ooohhh

Upstairs hall....gotta love the pukey green old carpet!!Back yard.....up ahead is the two car garage....there's an alley behind the house to get to it. CDR would like to build a new garage next to the house.....but I hate to lose so much of the yard...Back of house and more yard.

Heat Wave....

Today it's supposed to be getting up into the 50s hopefully...so we plan to take the kiddies to the Zoo!! Should be a fun day..if it's not too windy. I do feel a bit of a cough and stuffiness coming on....hope I'm not getting too sick! CDR got a call about a new listing yesterday. It's an older home in town(no land) but it's supposed to be in pretty good shape, it's really cheap( would be a good temporary home for us..then I could move up right away instead of waiting on the VA house to sell) needs a little updating and it would probably be easy to sell when our house in VA sells and we then can buy what we REALLY want...He's going to look at it sometime this week, and then take me to see it on the weekend possibly.

Outfit of the Day

Wicked!!!!

Last night was WICKED at last !!! OMG!! It was SUCH a good show!!! I just can't even describe it...everything was so wonderful! The set, the lighting, the singing , the dancing!! I absolutely LOVED it! I feel so bad that I got to see it without Drama Teen....It's coming to Virginia in May and I am definitely taking her!! She would have loved it too!!!

I was a good mom though, and bought her a T-Shirt!!LOL

House Hunting

Saturday we went to MIL's and then House/Land Hunting out east. Commander spent a little time shoveling MIL's driveway. It's been ages since I've seen a shovel!! Almost didn't know what it was for. So far the snow isn't getting to me yet. We went to see this old farm house..I really loved the property ..it's about 5 or 6 acres..the house was cute and I would have loved it if it was in better shape.....the foundation was really bad though and CDR thinks we'd have to tear the whole thing down...The inside was quite dated as well, and would have needed lots of renovating, IF we could have saved it.The floors upstairs were on a slant!!And this old barn would definitely have had to come down.........which is really too bad because it was quite quaint and I loved it.So as much as we would have loved the property....and I really would like an old farm house...this one just wouldn't work for us.....On Sunday..... After Church.....we drove out to see a few pieces of land CDR was interested in....this one was nice...It's about 6 or 7 acres....

There's already one pond and there's another area we could put in another pond....The land is low lying though....and we would have to be careful where we build the house....and it would take a lot to get it ready...we looked at a few other properties we'd like as well...but this one is a contender if we decide to just build...honestly I'm really hoping we decide something soon...as I'm getting tired of living apart....I want to just MOVE UP already!!

These last few pics I HAD to take for Tia......see.... here I am ....in a dress....in the snow!!!LOL My boots were soaked by the time I got back to the car though....need to find a better pair, as these are just not cutting it!

Wild Kids...

On Friday we took the kids to Wild Aire so they could run around and let off some steam.....They had a great time...wore me out though...LOL...Then later that evening we went to Holiday's for Dinner with CDR's Sister....

Flashback Friday!!

Participating in Tara's Flash Back Fridays again this week. Head over and join the fun!!

Christmas in Maine.....I'm not sure what year this is. I am there in the light blue dress....I look to be about 18 months ...which would make it 1966? That's my mom standing in the Black Jumper. My Aunt on the couch and my cousins, Donald( in red), Jean Paul sitting next to me, and Louise sitting next to my Aunt. Donald died on my 10th Birthday in 1975. He was 12 and was hit by a drunk driver as he walked home from the Bus Stop.