Seventy-two hours ago, we bought a house. After a five-year wait that began with our wedding, then two births, one loss of income, an IRS audit, and car problems galore, we saved up for a downpayment and signed the papers. We sat in a little room at the title company, signed papers, shook hands with […]
I’m weird. My husband’s weird. We didn’t buy a house when we got married – or in the five years that followed. With a lot of prayer, research, calculations, and staring blankly at each other trying to figure this out as we go along, we finally put an offer on our first house. Why’d it […]
My husband and I stood with our realtor inside our dream house on Friday. Ok, they were standing. I was levitating. I had raging house fever, not caring about whether or not we could afford it. All I wanted was to get my kids into that magical house with a fenced in back yard, attached garage […]
