A little background on the previous renting experiences. I have lived in an apartment, a town home, and two small houses in Missouri. In Kansas I have lived in two apartments. Heath has lived in an apartment and two small houses in Missouri and in Kansas he lived in an apartment and rented a room from a friend in a suburb. Our credit reports are many pages due to our many addresses.
Now we will be moving into something we actually own. It also has more than one bathroom and a garage that you can fit a car into! In fact, you can fit three! We are most excited about the master bathroom, our own sinks, means our own toothpaste. Heath likes Crest, Mikayla likes Colgate. We can have guests stay with us and they can actually shut the door to their own room AND their bathroom! Its AMAZING!
There will be no more talks about landlords, or rent is due and its already the 5th! Our dogs can have a decent backyard to play in, and we have a mailbox, in front of our house on the curb. Not attached to our house so the mailman freaks me out every Saturday when I hear him on the porch, I don't have to go down the street to the community mailbox to get the bills, and we can put our name on the mailbox! Heath and I can get drivers licenses with our current address knowing that it will not be outdated in a few months.
Here is a start to our new house resolutions:
1) Heath will have all of his vitamins in his drawer by his sink and take them every morning
2) Heath will put the coffeemaker in the bathroom (because we have room!) so he doesn't buy coffee every morning.
3) Mikayla is going to cook dinner more often now that she can see the living room from the kitchen and feel a part of what is going on in the rest of the house.
4) We both will take our dogs for walks everyday on the walking trail or on the access road.
5) We will sit on the front porch as much as possible to get to know our neighbors
6) Mikayla will bake cookies to encourage them to come see us.
7) Heath is going to exercise more regularly
8) Mikayla is going to do push-ups everyday until the wedding now that we have enough carpet to stretch out on (excuses!)
9) The dogs will NOT be in the house at all, garage and basement at the very most.
10) The window blinds will rarely be drawn, we now live in a safe neighborhood and can feel safe letting the sunshine in!
11) Heath will run MJ a bath when she needs her much appreciated baths.
This is what we have been doing since we heard the house is ares last week. We sit on the couch and dream. We also force each other to choose our favorite part of the new house. We never can choose between the front porch, the master bath (TUB!), the neighborhood/location, the layout, the many walk-in closets, and the garage.
We close February 12th and will be totally moved in that weekend :) It is going to be a long two weeks...
