Dinner

Elijah - "Mom is dinner ready yet?"

Me - "No, it will be ready in a bit."

5 minutes later...

Elijah - "Mom, is dinner ready yet?"

Me - "No, not yet."

2 minutes later...

Elijah - "Mom, is dinner ready yet?"

Me - "No! Now stop asking me!"

Elijah (whining) - "I'm dying! You just want me to die, so you can eat it all by yourself!"

Blank Canvas

I love having a house. It feels good to round the corner on the cul de sac, see the house and pull into the driveway. Sometimes I just sit there a minute and take it all in. It's starting to feel like home.

While searching for a house, we briefly considered an older home. Older homes seem more sturdy, and have character instead of the new subdivision cookie cutter homes. As you can see, we got the cookie cutter and I couldn't be happier! First - we are the one and only owners, and that means no old ghosts floating around. Yes, I believe in ghosts and Fonzy has lived in several houses with ghosts, so a new house was the way to go. Plus, with a new home, you know what you are getting. No old heaters breaking, rotted floors or anything like that. It's all spankin', sparkly new!

During the last walk-thru before closing I took BEFORE pictures. We are working on the AFTER. We have been painting, and it already looks totally different.

Walking thru the front door. What you see is the diningroom, but we aren't going to make that a diningroom. This is our study. Our desk will be there, bookshelves and a seating area. We plan on getting 2 wing back style chairs, with a small table between them, with a chess set - set up on the table. We plan on getting a throw rug also. Oh, and that light will be replaced. Below is another view of the study, and front door.



This room is a spare room downstairs off the study. We're not sure yet what we are doing with this room. We've talked about a game room, with a pool table, a spare bedroom or a photo studio for me. I'm liking the studio idea. Right now it's empty.

Here's the kitchen. I LOVE the kitchen. LOVE the granite countertops. LOVE the new gas stove! Gas is so much better to cook on then electric. LOVE the island/sink! Can you tell I LOVE the kitchen!

Below is another view of the kitchen.



My lovely sink....sometimes I just stand there and caress the granite. It's so nice and smooth and cool.

And here is the family/livingroom. So happy we have a fireplace. I perfer wood burning to gas, but gas is such much easier. Flip the switch and we have fire!

I also love that the kitchen and family room are open and together. So I can cook and still be part of the family.

Alright....heading upstairs.

This is the loft at the top of the stairs. Picture below is also the loft. We haven't decided what to do with this space either. Again, I mentioned a studio for me. Fonzy wants to replace the carpet with hardwood floors and make this the gameroom. Right now - it's empty.




Picture above is Fonzy and mines room, with master bath. Our room is HUGE. This picture doesn't do it justice, but it's a really nice size. We also have a garden tub! LOVE the garden tub!

This is Elijah's room. The boys are so excited to have their own rooms. Of course they are still in each other's rooms all the time and Elijah has slept in Ezekiel's room a few times. I think he just needs to get use to sleeping in his own room.


The picture above is the laundry room off the loft. That's Fonzy's domain. He does most of the laundry since he claims I don't know how to do laundry.


And last, but not least is Ezekiel's room.

As you can see from the pictures, it's a blank canvas ready for us to make it our own. We've already started with the painting. I will have AFTER pictures soon!

LOVE OUR HOUSE!

First Time Homebuyers

So this was the transition I was talking about in my previous post. We are homeowners! We closed on June 25 and spent our first night in our new home June 28! It's still feels surreal. I've been doing a lot of praying during this process. I think God was trying to teach me a lesson. That everything is in HIS time, not mine. I worried a lot during this process. Fonzy kept telling me to quit worrying. By worrying, I wasn't trusting in God. So I prayed everyday had faith that everything would be as it should. That if it was meant for us to have the house, we would get it. We put it in God's Hands and He provided!

The past week has been filled with painting, unpacking and just getting use to our new house. It has been a lot of work and late nights, but we couldn't be happier! We still have a ways to go with painting, but it's coming along. It feels so good to no longer live in an apartment. We have so many plans for the house - the decorating, what we want to get to fill up the rooms. It's all so exciting. I told Fonzy I'm fine with the empty rooms right! It's our empty rooms! I have more, so much more I want to write, but no time right now. I will be back later with updates, before and after pictures and our adventures as we get use to being homeowners!