Home is...whatever your money can get you. yikes.

Alright, so let me just lay it out for you. Nick and I pretty much scour the real estate websites on the daily looking for potential homes. We lie in bed at night with our iPhones gleaming in our faces scrolling through homes and excitedly showing each other what we find and exclaiming what we could do with it. Many get sold and we *sigh* heavily wishing that we would have had our act together to put an offer down. Rewind to the end of this past summer and we were actually gonna go for it. Got pre-approved, went house hunting. Then we got scared. Were we ready? We just had a baby and paid a mountain of medical bills, so it was scary to jump into another big financially draining pit. We filed away our approval letter and decided the time was not right. Well, we can't stop thinking about having our own home. Apartment living with a 9 month old is rough. He likes to scream/talk and our neighbors upstairs like to stomp around in heels. It's annoying on both ends...well, not so much Silas screaming, that is quite hilarious. The thing is, when only one of you is working the dough isn't quite rolling in like it used to. We cut our income in half (half!!) when we decided I would stay home with the babe. I mean, daycare is frickin' expensive and I (we) prefer that I'm the one with him rather than some stranger. So, here we are looking things over and it's surprisingly looking good for us as far as the housing thing goes. We've talked to some people and we are pretty confident that we can make something work. We don't need a huge mansion with mid century design and gorgeous hardwoods. All we need is something that can be made into that :) We are both willing to put in some sweat to make a house our home. It's exciting and scary and kind of confusing all rolled up into one ball. I see where people went wrong with this mortgage business...the first guy quoted us waaaay more than we could afford, but now we found ourselves a dude who is really into showing us what is out there for us and seems to genuinely not want to screw us over. So yah, here's to house hunting! xo

Some inspiration for our *hopefully* new house in 2014!

*all images are via Pinterest