January 15, 2002 - I have been wanting to spend some time working on my pages but just havent had the time. It takes awhile to save them and then open new ones so I need at least an hour of time to devote to this. I have some time right now since Austin went with my sister to her house to play with his cousin and the baby is sleeping. I just took some clothes off the line and have more in the washer going. It was very rainy here yesterday all day but today it is sunny and in the 70's. It's a nice day. I took my mom to look at the model home that we are looking to have built. She liked it, although I think she is sad that we will be moving away. Right now there is only one house between mine and my moms. I will miss seeing her everyday and having the boys be able to see her daily. Since my dad died I just feel like we keep each other company. I worry that she will be bored and lonely. It brings tears to my eyes when I think about it. The property we are looking at is about 20 minutes away from here so it's not like we'll be that far, but we certainly won't be right next door either : - ( But on the other hand it will be nice to not have my sister coming over EVERYDAY unannounced to drop her daughter off so she can go shopping or work out and do her own thing. Don't get me wrong, I love my niece and Austin and her are only 6 weeks apart so they get along really well, but I really feel taken advantage of at times. It's frustrating to have to take 3 children to do the things I need to do all the time while she get's to do her own thing child free. This weekend we are going to take the paper work that we need to get the whole process started on the house. I hope everything goes well. We have already been approved by a mortgage company for a VA mortgage so I imagine we should be fine. I'm just nervous that I will not be able to get what I really want in our price range. I really like this model. There is pleanty of room, 1800 Sq. Ft. 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths and the Master Bedroom has a "Retreat" area they call it which will be the computer room/office area. Of course there are bigger and better models but this is very sufficent for us and is what we can afford comfortably. We don't want to over extend ourselves and live to pay the mortgage. Plus for me to stay home with the children we need to stay in a budget. So if all goes well and we find a piece of property we should be able to move in to the house at the beginning of May. I just keep praying about it. I know that if it's God's will that it will all work out well for us. Oh How I hope it's God's will.
Well I want to mess around with a few of the other pages while I can so I better end this for now. Check back with me again later :- ) |
