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Well, folks, it may seem like I dropped off the radar for awhile -- but yes, I'm still here! We've been quite busy in the past few weeks...living in three different states, packing up an entire house and moving it into storage while we hunted for a new one... and let me tell you a little bit about that hunt.
After several evenings of viewings, our realtor showed us a gem of a home, which we toured laughingly ... since it was WAY out of our price range. But we couldn't get that darn house out of our heads. A 1914, arts & crafts, bungalow style home with three bedrooms and two full baths -- and ... drumroll please ... a master bedroom (with a fireplace)that was 28 by 14 feet!!! (My bedroom in our old house was cramped, to put it mildly.)
To make a long story short, we decided we couldn't NOT make an offer on this house, which had made such a lasting impression...so throwing caution to the wind, we offered a number that was just under what we could afford...figuring they would laugh their heads off. They didn't. They came down $15,000 in price. We came up $3,000. They came down another $15,000. And the house was ours...for about $40,000 less than their original asking price. Huzzah! Yes, I do indeed LOVE the current housing market! What fun! Anyway, here are some photos.


The house has been vacant for a year, and like all old homes, needs some TLC. Check out this lampost...yes, there is one under that climbing vine ... the vine busted out the glass and took up residence inside!


The strangest room in the house is the kitchen, which was built in the sunroom. (Which will be very pretty when the snow is flying and I'm making a big pot of chilli!). A vermont marble countertop is pretty much the extent of this room...


Along with an older-than-dirt cabinet to hold our dishes. Yes, this will be the first room to get gutted and remodeled...SOMEDAY!!!


Here is (half of) my bedroom -- With a HUGE closet and a fireplace! Nathan will no longer look like Gulliver in the land of the lilliputians when he walks around his bedroom!


Our living room has a great fireplace and french doors leading into the kitchen.




The stairway goes two ways at the bottom...one way leads here, to the living room. The other way leads to an office...formerly, the old kitchen...but will now be a nice space for my desk -- a little hidey-hole to do my writing in!


Check out the ceiling in our dining room! Too fun!

Now all we do is wait for the VA loan to go through and hopefully, we close at the end of the month. I can not WAIT. In the meantime, I'll post more photos of the kids and the fun we're having in St. Louis with my folks as we wait for moving day!