House Update - 29 days to go!

29 days to go until closing and our fingers are crossed that everything will go as smoothly as it has been going. This past week I finally realized that our stuff wasn't going to magically move itself into our new home. Hopefully with the month of July as an overlap month, where we'll have both the condo we are currently renting and our new home, the moving part won't feel too overwhelming. Although it would probably help to start packing some stuff up now.

Marc and I have also begun our conversations about what is going to happen during week one of house ownership. Hopefully by discussing it now we can get some prep work done ahead of time so come July 3rd we are go, go, go! Which means tomorrow I am meeting with multiple contractors at the house to start getting an idea of what we are going to be doing.

Speaking of working on the house, after our wedding Marc and I started talking to each other about what we wanted in a house. We discussed in depth all of the houses we had lived in and even drew out floor plans for those houses. We would talk about what things we liked about our apartment in San Diego and how we would improve it. We looked at building plans for homes and we searched the internet for examples of things we liked.

We also wrote this list which we then put away and forgot about. Last week while I was cleaning out I came across the list and enjoyed comparing it to what we have ended up with. If you ignore the fact that it's written on fruit and vegetable paper you will notice that our future home contains all but two items on the list - no enclosed yard and no central air/heat. But that doesn't mean that one day it won't have those things.

29 days and counting . . .