On the Edge of a Cliff and Ready to Fly

We found another house we liked so we made an offer – another flurry of signing paperwork and faxing it in to our realtor. We will see if they accept the offer or if we need to counter with a higher offer. Our mortgage guy is trying to get sellers to pay all our closing costs, and we have a contingency on it that our house has to sell, so those are things that may not look as good to a seller. However, we feel like making a full price offer helps to sweeten the deal when we have the contingency and high closing costs – so we’ll have to see how it works out!

We really, really like the house. It has a HUGE backyard and an open upstairs floor plan – the only reason you would have to go downstairs would be for the office and laundry, but it’s nicer than our current plan because you don’t have to walk up a flight of stairs to get in the house with groceries and such, so that will be good.

I am also having a bummed out day – even thought exciting things are happening I feel as if it’s going to take a lot of money and a lot of time to adopt (which it will.) Sometimes I just wish it were faster and easier, but I guess nothing in life that’s worth it is easy and fast. I hope when I’m frustrated and sleep deprived and my kid has wrecked our car or messed up our house by scribbling on the wall that I will remember that we wanted our kids so very much we spent so much time, effort, and money on getting them!