House!

Well, we have an accepted offer on a house!!! Can't hardly believe it! We will close June 10 and will move after that sometime (not in a hurry as I am hoping to move a room at a time.)

Swingset, sandbox, fenced in back yard, room for a humdinger garden (!!!), four bedrooms, finished walk-out basement, a big pantry, (woo-hoo, no more storing cans in the coat closet!), family room, game room (will be our school room), and it even has an office for John. We're so excited! The only negatives are the commute for John and the lack of woods for the kids to romp around in. They'll miss that. I'll totally miss our view here also. I've had the curtains flung open to soak in the view here while we can. Soon there will be nothing to see but another house right across the street. Oh well. Ya gotta weigh those pros and cons, dontcha?

And as I said before, my chickens and goats are out. That's probably for the best! Did I mention that one of the houses we walked through had goats?! They kept 'em in the garage of all places! lol! That would have been a neat hunk of land (it was three acres or so), but the house was not what we would have liked. It had a bowed-in basement wall, not enough kitchen cupboards (though it did have a pantry), and the master bedroom was an enlarged landing on the second floor. No doors. Weird, but the house was also over a hundred years old. Made John about have a panic attack seeing all the "projects" to be done there... lol! (But it had rhubarb and currant bushes and cherry trees....) *swoons* ;o) I guess I can plant my own though, right?

I'm so looking forward to setting down some roots and not being afraid to put a nail in the wall. Also looking forward to having places to put stuff. Our realtor is going to have someone till up my garden for me as a house-warming gift. Even offered to buy us some tomato plants! :o)