I know.  It's a boring blog post week.  But I digress.  

The month of May will be a busy one for us.  We'll be closing on our house, and putting this whole moving adventure to rest, finally.  We'll also be in and out of town for miscellaneous things, so I'll be taking a short break from the blog during the month of May.  

In addition, the Etsy shop will be closed for the duration of the month of May also.  The shop will be on "vacation" from April 30-June 1.  Never fear, I'll be back in June with new items in the shop, made in my brand new office/studio space in our brand new house (new to us at least).

So stay tuned.....

In the meantime, you can always keep up with what's going on if you follow me on Instagram.  I'll continue to post our happenings and adventures through this next crazy month.

I'm so anxious for our lives to back to "normal" soon, and I look forward to sharing a home tour of our new house!

A lot has happened since my last post about our house hunt.  What seemed like an endless array of disappointing transactions, would only get worse before it got better.

Just a few days after my last house hunt post, we found another house we loved.  It was huge, but needed lots of work.  We gave what we and our realtor thought was a generous offer for a house in such disrepair, but again, the sellers countered with a very proud offer that we just couldn't do.  So we walked away.  Again.

A few days after that, we found another house we liked.  We were the first to see it and the first to put an offer in.  Unfortunately, other buyers were interested and the sellers decided to wait another 24 hours to review all offers.  In the end, there were two offers considered:  ours and one other.  The sellers chose the other offer.

While we were eating lunch one day and discussing the previous home purchase attempts, a new house popped up on our website.  After only viewing it on our phones, we immediately called our realtor to make an appointment to look at it.  This house was by far our favorite so far.  Again we were the very first to see it, getting there literally a couple of hours after it went officially for sale.  We fell in love with the house and again were the very first to put an offer in (and a very aggressive offer I might add).  Again, there was a lot of interest in this house so the sellers of this house also decided to wait another 24 hours for all offers to be considered.  So, we waited.  Again.  The next day, our realtor called to see what the offers were looking like and was told that other offers were very competitive.  So we upped our game, offering almost $10,000 over list price.  I was literally a nervous wreck waiting to hear if we got this house.  We loved it so much.  At 7pm that night, we found out we did not get the house.

Literally the second we found out that we didn't get our "dream house," we put an offer in on another house that we had seen that day.  Once again, we were outbid and lost the house.

On a whim, we circled back around to a house that we had already looked at.  We really liked this house the first time we saw it, but for whatever reason we passed on it initially.  We went to see this  house one more time, and for some reason this time when we stepped through the door, it felt right.  Katherine went with us to see this house and she seemed to like it too.  She even picked out what room she wanted to be hers.  It felt right, so we said a prayer and decided to go for it.

Again, we put an offer in on a house.  This time, it took.  We finally bought a house.  We close in a few weeks.

Hallelujah. 

This house is farther west than I originally wanted, and it's a little more "rural" than I wanted, but it feels right.  This crazy stressful journey will soon be over and a new (slightly more settled) one will begin.

Hallelujah.  

While my blog posts have been scarce recently, I'm still here and still trying to come up with fun and interesting content to share.  It's been a little challenging lately, but alas I'm sharing some of my current favorite links with you today:

1.  I Dressed Like Rachel Green From 'Friends' For A Week & Here's What Happened  I would totally try this! 

2.  The All-Time Best Rom-Coms To Stream Now  Perfect for when Katherine's in bed for the night and Jason is at work.  

3.  The 15 Best Beauty Finds at Whole Foods  I'd be willing to try a couple.  

4.  Froggy Fresh - Dunked On  This is Jason and Katherine's favorite thing to watch on YouTube.  They watch it constantly and know all the words.  It's probably the dumbest song/video ever.  Like, ever.  


I'm currently looking for TV shows to stream/binge watch this summer.  Any suggestions?

Happy Monday!

Last week, we took a quick trip down to Arkansas to visit my family.  While we were there we saw both of my grandmothers, my aunt, and my great-aunt (who also just so happens to live next door to the hospital helicopter landing pad!)  It was a super short trip, but Katherine always enjoys visiting with family and entertaining them with her vocal skills and imagination.






I wish we lived closer to them, but not seeing them very often just makes our sporadic trips all that more special.