Turning the Page

My husband and I are about to turn the page into a new chapter of our lives together. After four years, we are finally working on the final steps to purchasing our first house. What an experience! Besides dealing with all the other aspects of life, the house has seemed to become a monster of it’s own: a part of your every thought, at work, at home, while you are trying to clear your head to sleep for the night. What a whirlwind of things to consider and ponder. How much money will it end up being, how much do we need for the closing? All kinds of things going on at once definitely make your head spin. At least having family to help through these things makes it a little better and definitely a little more reassuring.

I’m not saying buying a house is a bad thing. It’s just that you are not really prepared for exactly what may be involved before you actually get to move in. We are still not at that point, but we are coming closer every day. It’s like a puzzle with a ton of different pieces that keep getting put into place. Every week, we seem to have some of those pieces properly placed.

We are almost there and with the actual closing seeming closer rather than farther away, it is wonderful to feel like a new page is turning in life. Our lives together are moving to the next level: home ownership. What an exciting idea, yet extremely scary and stressful too. It will be worth it once we have a place to actually call our own. Being able to make modifications and paint the walls whatever color we want them to be. Knowing we can have a quiet evening to relax at home without worrying about neighbors having people over at all hours of the night being loud. Not to say we will no longer have neighbors, but the situation will be much different: they will not longer be living above us.

So with some trepidation and nervousness, but with absolutely no doubts and complete happiness, we grow closer to this new stage of life. We will be in the house game and looking forward to it. Things will be tight, but they will get better with each passing month as we grow into the needs of the house. We are looking forward to this new experience and are running ourselves ragged. That is probably why we are both sick with a week or so to go before we have a home of our own. Amazing, how life if surging ahead, but your body can lag behind. No matter, with sniffling noses and very sore throats we will continue packing as much as we can and say goodbye to the first four years of our marriage as we look to the future years together. We will welcome the adventures that await around the next corner, while turning the pages of our books relaxing on the front porch!