Wow. Today was surreal.

We are buying a house. Our first day out. What a crazy day.


What? You want more details? Fine.

We went out with our realtor friend and he showed us a bunch of so-so houses, some pretty good ones and 1 REALLY CRAPPY ONE. Let me just pause here to tell you about the Craptastic one. Let's just say that we learned the owner was a cat lover with no peeing boundaries for her feline friend! We barely got through the threshold and we all covered our noses. Oh my Lordy, it was soooo bad! The smell of cat urine is no aromatic, if you've never taken a whiff. Especially with the carpet is saturated with it. So gross. It didn't matter that it had walk-in closets and a spacious kitchen--IT SMELLED LIKE AMMONIA!! That was a "no" before we even got inside.

Our last stop today was in a subdivision where Ms. Cindy and her family are moving. We went with our realtor into the sales office and chatted a bit. They are having incentives for buying immediately, PLUS, if you could make a committment before the weekend was over, they'd knock another $10,000 off the price! The salesman showed us a model home and it was real nice (as they always are), and then showed us a spec home that was in the framing stage. Oh so pretty. And just what we wanted. And we could get it for over $30,000 under the value! We hemmed and hawed and went home and talked about it. But it didn't take long to feel that this was the house for us. We were getting a brand new house right off the bat!! It was (and still is) really scary, but so very exciting too. My hubby made some calls (including my dad that's helping us with the down payment) and went back to the sales office during Mason's nap to sign papers. Yes, sign papers. And give Earnest money!! Tomorrow we take some more paperwork back to them and get the ball rolling! Yikes! We are both elated (and so is Ms. Cindy, as we will be about 2 blocks away!!) and scared out of our minds. A lot to think about. Oh, and we will be moving in either November or December.

Then 3 or 4 months later, we'll have a baby. We must like change.