Housing Update

Time is flying as always. It’s sad to say the summer is over with.


We are all doing well. Liam is a handful but I’m so thankful for that! He is still obsessed with drumming. He is saying more and more words daily. Yesterday I asked him what a cow said and he said “Moo”. It made my heart melt to hear that. It’s the little things I so appreciate. To know he is absorbing the world around him and growing and thriving. Sometimes I’m amazed that my husband and I have created this amazing human being.

So on to a housing update. On May 25th we went under contract for our forever home. It seriously was everything we wanted at a great price. The people we were buying from wanted a bigger house (and hadn’t found anything yet) but still put their house on the market. So we waited. We gave them 1 month to find a house. In that month they thought they had found a house but then decided against it b/c it was for a For Sale by Owner. They found another house but it was too close to the boat access. So we gave them another 2 weeks to find something. They found a rental but it was on a cliff. So we gave them another month. They investigated a new build but the land they wanted wasn’t even for sale. And they only wanted to stay in one town. As of August 17th, they decided to pull their house off the market. We were left high and dry. It has been an emotional roller coaster.

So many times during those 84 days of waiting for them, the emotions of my miscarriages came back to haunt me. We had found our dream home, had envisioned living there, what we were going to paint the walls, only to have it pulled from under us. It was out of our control. That’s how I felt when I lost Nathaniel and Grace. We had so many hopes and dreams for them, only to have them taken away from me. It sucks.

I’m still bitter about losing the house. I hate how they dragged us along. We even found a buyer for our house and had to let that person go. These people wasted our time. It makes me mad. I’m trying to let go but it’s hard when you have your mind set on something.

We had found another house we were potentially interested in but then discovered that the owners were under investigation. A few days later a lien was put on their house. We walked away….it wasn’t worth it.

So we are building a new house. I am excited, but still not as excited as if we were to be moving into our dream home. It’s not the ideal location but still in the town we want to stay in. We are actually using the plans from our dream home with a few modifications. The goal is to be in our house before Christmas. We are so ready. I’m mostly looking forward to having more space for Liam to play and grow as he gets older. Our condo is getting cramped!

It’s been a journey, as everything seems to be in life but I think we have found the path we were supposed to go down. I can’t wait to be in our new home and hopefully work on expanding our family. We are ready for another baby but want to be settled into our new house (and hopefully I will be less stressed by then). I’m starting my prenatals vitamins and my folic acid. I want it in my system for a while. I only hope our next pregnancy is smooth. I’m scared, very scared. But if we don’t try we will never know. Sometimes you just have to trust.