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Year’s End

With the holidays behind us. I can’t help but feel like we were put through the ringer this year emotionally. Believe it or not I keep a lot of my life and its events under wraps. I prefer it that way as it is, but it’s been hard to keep some things quiet out of [...]

The Hunt Continues…

Our house hunting {mis}adventure has been good blog fodder at the very least. But after signing another lease, we’ve let go of some of our wants in hopes of finding our first house sooner. Mat said he’d given up completely on finding a house with any of our wants, I vehemently disagreed. The house we [...]

17 Months And Counting

It’s been a while since I’ve updated on our house hunt. But really there has been nothing to say until now. What feels like many moons ago {early March} we put and offer in on a house. The seller’s wife suddenly passed and he could no longer stand living in the home they shared together. [...]

Two Houses, Two{ish} Hour Commute, Too Bad.

A couple of weeks ago, we ventured out to look at two other houses. One in Gold Bar the other in Monroe – which is east a ways from our current location. The listings for both houses really had us interested though, despite the drive ahead {up to two hours one way}.The first house I [...]

Query

I dream of a house with no neighbors in sight, with a generous bit of land so we can grow our own produce and house chickens, acreage for Charlie to tear up and explore. A home away from the city, the hustle, and noise {and still have cable internet}. A simple, humble, and beautiful home [...]

W/W House with a View

The view is about the only thing this house had going for it….But lawsie, what a view.P.S. If you link up here, it will automatically link at Extraordinary Mothers and vise versa.If you’d like to join, post your Wordless Wednesdays with The Extraordinary Mothersand at 5 Minutes For Momand for Wordful Wednesday fun, post your link up with Angie over [...]

Most Recent Houses

I think Mat and I are both feeling the pressure building daily. Slowly but surely. Must. Buy. A. House. Must get out of this apartment! *BREATHE* Over the weekend we saw 3 houses…I should rephrase. We saw three houses early Saturday morning.The first in our adventure was a miss. In the 10 or so minutes [...]