One Scarf, Two Scarf, Red Scarf, Blue Scarf

The word “scarf” is an odd one, especially after you have typed it out five times and subsequently looked at it really closely.

But I digress.

First off, my apologies for the utter lack of posts this week. I promise I have had good reason for the absence, though: we think we finally found a house! It’s an Acadian-style 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath very close to Nola and Nopsi’s house, which they are just thrilled about. We are officially under contract as of this week.

Kenny and I are both extremely grateful to my parents for letting us live with them for the past 8 months, but we know it’s high time for us to settle down in our own place. And finally rescue all of our stuff from storage!

We went through inspections yesterday afternoon, and everything went pretty well. No major problems were found, although the house does need a fair amount of cosmetic work. We will take the weekend to truly, once-and-for-all decide if this is the right choice for our family, financially, logically, and emotionally.

Although the process of finding a home started off really slow for us (read: we were slackers), we recently stepped it up. It’s been a little stressful, but for the most part, things have gone fairly smoothly. We looked at a lot of properties throughout the past few weeks, but this one was the best we saw. We have had numerous discussions, crunched a lot of numbers, and done a fair amount of soul-searching. But, most importantly, we kept going back to this particular house.

The house is not perfect, not by any means, but how realistic is it to expect perfection? What the house does have is a two-car garage, rear yard access, a front porch, some upgrades, and a great floor plan. We are hoping that, with time, we can eventually make this house a true home for us, in every sense of the word.

It may take a few years (and a lot of blood, sweat, tears, and paint), but I think we’ll get there.

Although I’m not quite sure what Jem will do once Riley-bean doesn’t live with him anymore…..