mission : put on my big girl pants

Posted on | January 19, 2010 | 18 Comments

goal is better than a resolution, is it not? i feel like resolutions must begin january 1st, and usually end around january 13th or 14th, once you realize that doing that resolution sucks and that is why you weren’t doing it in the first place. so while i did resolve to make my blog better and succeeded, a more important goal for this year is to become what i’ve been sort of claiming* to be for a while now : an adult.

*not like by my mature actions or anything, just by being a certain age (that cannot be helped), being married, having a kid and paying bills and the whatnot.

our goal this year is to buy our first home. being a blog-stalker extraordinaire, i am well aware that most people my age reading have already taken that step. the thing is, we love our townhouse. it’s cozy and holds all of our important memories. scot proposed to me in our bedroom the day we moved in (note to self, tell this story someday), we erm, created Harper in this house and brought her home to it. many a get-together has happened here in the past 4 years and these walls have seen more laughter and love than i could ever put here. it is all we know as our little family of three.

last year at this time, there was no way i would have wanted to leave it. however, now that it’s my house and my workplace, and we have a toddler, i see that it’s time to go. if we ever want to move forward with our family, we need more space. the dogs need a yard to run in and Harper needs to chase after them. if we had another baby now, it would have to sleep somewhere amongst the piles of paper, crafts and lord knows what else is on the bed in the guestroom/office/firey depths of “catch-all-room” hell. and i have a hunch that cps wouldn’t back that.

so this year we are focused. we don’t have much credit card debt, so paying that off will not be hard. our issues lie in our car payments, and fact that we have 2 of them . i know how much getting rid of those can positively impact the amount of house you can buy, and you guys? i do not want to leave this town. unfortunately that means dollar dollar bills y’all when it comes to real estate. which is why this goal will take all year, and possibly well into next.  the good news is, finding an agent will be no problem, in fact i have no idea how i will even choose between all the rad ones i know. also budget-inhibiting is the fact that i don’t work and we’d like to keep it that way.

this is the part where i ask you for advice, or at least a comment telling me it will all be ok, not scary at all, and that my hair looks pretty. ok, not that last part, because lets be honest, mama needs a dye job and trim like no ones business. but about the home-buying part? yes. i need help. any tips, tricks or websites that helped you when you were attempting to be an adult, too. not the basics really, because i did work in real estate before i had Harper, but more like things that helped you better understand home-buying, or helped you plan better for it, etc.

and lastly, this post brought to you by hour number FOUR of the neighbors dog barking (which commences the second she leaves in the morning) and by the [profanity here] neighbor kids who find it hi-lar-ee-us to sit on a skateboard and roll down the hill screaming bloody murder, coming to rest on our tiny patch of front lawn (causing neighbor dog to bark even louder).

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