Spring Catch Up

Ok so I haven't been blogging. This is due to a variety of reasons and excuses of which I will dole out one by one over the course of the next few days. I hope you consider them worthy of an absence. That being said, it sounds as if I am assuming I have regular readers to let down. Please humor me.

REASON/EXCUSE #1:  With spring time comes lovely weather, cherry blossoms, and spring cleaning. These past few months I have decided to forgo cleaning. Instead I used the tried and true tactic of just buying something new. The new item in discussion here is a home. Your right, I am implying that I didn't want to clean my apartment anymore so we bought a new home. A town home, to be exact. Wink! I wish it was that easy. Check it out. You can drown out my oh so exciting narration by just pushing mute. I actually might prefer it that way.

**I realized that I sound a bit under enthused in the video. I apologize. It was a post nap endeavor. I'll put some more pep in my step when I narrate next time.**

The story of the house is this...we made a goal to be down-payment ready to start looking for homes at the new year. And look we did, until we stumbled upon a wonderful deal on a brand new home and bought...much more quickly than anticipated. We are officially first time home owners and we did it on our terms. We stayed under budget, made our 20% down and it feels so good!

I love the new kitchen. We have enough cupboards that even with all our things in them some are still empty. I feel that we have exponential amounts of counter space now as well. Compared to this (below) it's not hard to do. Not even room to pack a box and eek out a peanut butter sandwich.

I also have come to the loving realization that when you have a lot of space and not a lot of belongings, those few belongings can be in a state of complete disarray but your house still feels clean. Brilliant! I also love that our mortgage payment is only slightly larger than our exorbitant old rental payment and we have over double the space. Hallelujah! I hope you enjoyed the short video tour of the almost unpacked, completely un-decorated new abode. I'll try and update as we make the place more our own.

Tomorrow....Peanut is Walking!