Yes, things.
I'm due in 6 days with this child, and feeling huge. Although I don't want him here for at least a few more days at this point. I've been having contractions off and on, but nothing that's real labor yet. But that's not why I don't want him here in this world yet. And that's because we're buying a house.
Yup.
We are buying a house.
It's an amazing deal that we can't pass up. The house we are buying is a 3bd/2ba 1500 sq ft house with attached garage on 1/3 acre about 10 minutes north of Sedro Woolley, and 2 blocks from an alpaca farm. Which I'm sure Baxter will adore. We are buying it through a program that allows teachers to buy certain foreclosed houses for a super reduced rate, and it allows us to do $35k of repairs and renovations on top of that. We are required to live there for 3 years though. That's do-able. All said and done, our total mortgage price will be $100-150 less per month than our current rent, but our utilities will be higher, making it about the same per month as what we are paying now. But we'll be building equity, have the extra space, and have a YARD. I think I'm most looking forward to the yard. And maybe the garage. We're planning on using as much of that $35k as possible though, and updating a lot.
But the next few months will be super stressful. Like we got confirmation that we can buy the house this morning, but the contract has to be completed tomorrow morning. So I have to drive to Sedro Woolley tomorrow morning to get the paperwork needed from the school, and then drive back to Bellingham and pay the earnest money. And then come home and schedule the home inspection and get utilities turned on for the home inspection. Which has to be done within 15 days. Then theoretically we'll be closing in mid-June, and moving mid-July. Or end of July, not sure yet. But if you think about us, pray that the mortgage and the estimates go smoothly, and that things are just meant to be!
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