Archive for July, 2008
We’re Going to Be Homeowners!
12 Comments Published July 28th, 2008 in It's Really Just All About Me....After about 10 counter offers, I finally got a deal I was happy with. We’ve agreed on the terms of sale and now we’re going to finish our mortgage application. We hope to be closing on August 25th.
This house was one of the first few that we looked at. We went on to view a […]
We went out to breakfast on Sunday morning. It’s not really a tradition, but we like to let someone else do the cooking every once in a while. And this Sunday, I was out of eggs anyway, so… off we went.
After we sat down, L.A. Toddler opened her menu and immediately went to her favorite […]
Would you like to avoid a major meltdown in your home? Heed my advice…
If you are going to tell your world-weary toddler, at the end of a long week, that you’re going to be serving “Fish and Chips” for dinner… it’s very important to not give her French fries, but actual potato chips.
I made this […]
We put an offer in on that pricier house today.
Although, to look at me, you wouldn’t think I’d be able to afford a house much less even have a job…
Well, that’s the impression I get. But I could be paranoid.
Lemme ’splain — I work from home now. I still work for the same company that’s […]
How Green Is Your Valley?
14 Comments Published July 11th, 2008 in It's Really Just All About Me....It’s official. I’m actually quite sick of the word “green” now.
It’s not that I don’t firmly believe in the practices of reuse, reduce, and recycle. I’m just sick of the word.
Everyone and their mother and their mother’s mother seems to be using it now. And it’s going to do more harm than good.
However, I am […]
How can you get in to see my children? How can you pay a visit to these delightful, darling girls? Apparently, the price of admission is a gift of some sort.
That must be what my mother thinks.
Now that we’re in Ohio, she’s only a few miles away. I’m sure if she had it her way […]
So, the house hunting continues.
We missed out on getting that first house by less than three thousand dollars. The house had been foreclosed on by HUD and everyone had to submit a bid and you only had one shot.
This week, I set up viewings at two other houses. On Thursday, we saw two houses… and […]
