We've bought a house!!!!!!!!!

OMG - we really have actually bought a house!!!

And this is it!

Its right by the lake park, in a little complex with a swimming pool.  It's small but perfectly formed.  And it will be ours.  Ours to paint and make our own.  No-one can force us to clean it, make us leave or put the rent up on us.  Hurray!!!  Its not in a good school area but we've decided keeping the kids where they were and buying cheaper would actually be overall cheaper, and less stressful for us all. So the kids stay where they are and get stairs (this was very important so they have somewhere to drop T's parachute man from apparently!) and a swimming pool so there has been no arguments from them!

We are currently in the process of getting the loan sorted.  Its been a difficult and stressful thing (especially for Ste who has had to sort out all the money side of things) But I think we're just about there with it all and we should get our keys on the 18th.  Happy days :)

Of course the only rubbish thing about the timing is that Mum and everyone come for the first week we have the house.  So we've got a huge cross over period.  Still, it will give us lots of time to get things sorted before we move in.

We now just have to pack and get sorted.  I am being ruthless and am on a mission to chuck everything crap we own (and that's a lot of stuff!) away.  Craigslist is my friend at the moment!

And of course, we couldn't go through something like this on our own.  Good job we don't have to as the Greenes have bought a house too!!!  So this has resulted in many playdates that involve wine for me and Lorraine and many trips to the pub for the boys.  Stress relief!