We Bought A House!

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A few months ago, Elliot had an idea.

“Hey, with the baby stuff taking up a lot of our living room space, I’m thinking we should probably get a smaller coffee table.”

I had been thinking about this problem, too.

I replied, “I like where your heads at. I’m thinking we just get a bigger living room.”

He looked at me and said “THAT, is a very different conversation.”

And it was, but it was time. Although Will is a tiny baby, his stuff took up half of our home. With both of us working from home, we needed more space. So we started the search for our forever home.

It was a very quick process. I was prepared for the search to take upwards of a year, but it was only a month before our dream home hit the market. God has his hand on everything, and it all went very smoothly.

So while I’ve been saying that things are crazy busy for the last month, we’ve been trying to pack up our entire lives in a month - with a four month old child who thinks everyone’s world revolves around him.

While I’m so happy to have this new home, it was really hard to leave our first home.

For those of you who are new, we bought that house in 2018, 9 months before our wedding, and it was in serious need of repair. We spent months replacing every floor, some subflooring, painting the whole house, renovating our bathroom and making the house our very own. We had no furniture, barely any money after spending it on tile, carpet, appliances and hardwood floors, and somehow made it into a home.

In that house, we built a life together.

On our wedding night, we came home to that house with all of our friends and sat on the floor and had leftover food and sandwiches and wine. I spent my wedding night in running shorts and a t shirt with my wedding hair and makeup still on, hanging out with our closest friends and family.

We hosted dinners, cookouts, birthdays, and movie nights.

We brought Mollie home in that house.

We got new jobs, navigated the pandemic and started working from home in that house.

We repurposed rooms and spaces to make offices, a home gym, spaces for family and friends to stay over, and eventually, a nursery.

I got to create the nursery of my dreams in that home, and welcome our firstborn into our family there.

It’s got a lot of memories.

In the last few weeks, every night as I rocked Will to sleep, I looked around at my home and thanked God for all of the blessings we have received over the last five years.

When we bought this house five years ago, we left settlement and drove right to the house, opened a bottle of champagne, sat down on the empty floor and made a toast to celebrate. Last week, when the house was finally empty, we did the same thing. We sat down on our empty floor and opened a bottle of champagne and toasted our home and the end of a chapter. We visited each of the rooms, reminisced, cried a little, and closed each door behind us as we left.

Our new home is everything we could have hoped for and more. It has a big, fenced in yard, a fireplace, plenty of space and a front porch. We are so blessed to call this new house our home.

You know I can’t wait to decorate that porch with mums and pumpkins this fall. It’s going to be AMAZING.

It’s been an emotional month, but a really good one. I can’t wait to finish moving in and start this next chapter of our lives in our new home. It’s going to be a good one.

“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” James 1:17