I'm moving I'm moving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok so here's the news!!! I had to wait longer than I thought because of paperwork stuff, and I didn't want to blog it until it was for sure!!!!!!
So five years ago, Steve and I we're renting our first "home" not an apartment, not living w/ friends or family, but a house w/ just him, I and the girls.... Well we we're renting it from Jenette and her husband at the time Andre'.... Well at the time they decided to sell it, to buy a new home for themselves which was great... However we we're not in any position to buy a house at the time, so we had to give it up and leave..... I remember my Dad driving us away from it for the last time after the last load moving out, and I was balling my eyes out.... We only lived there for 1 year, and it is S M A L L.... But it's a home and it was our home... So we moved out and moved on moving into a duplex for 2 years and now our current townhouse for the last 2 years, well.... For the last few months Steve and I have been saying that we have to get out of here, we love our current residence, we love the space, the fireplace, the location... But it's in a complex, and you have the drawbacks of neighbors, their kids, their visitors, their animals, their stereos, their cars, and don't even get me started on f#%Inc scooters.... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr (right Nicole). So we new we had to move and get a home of our own, because frankly, it sucks having to leash up the girls just to take them to the bathroom, I mean know that it's our responsibility, but hell, they need that fenced yard just as much as we do, because you and I all know that they don't like to be leashed up, just to go and squat.....
THAN LAST WEEK.... Talk about everything coming full circle.... If my BFF Nikki would have never come home than this never would have happened.... I was at her house (there's a frickin surprise) but anyway, I was leaving her house and when I go there in the afternoon I usually leave around 235 to go get the Stever from work, and I was just merging onto I-5 from the "tressle" and I had a really funny feeling and felt that I needed to get off the freeway, so I thought I would get off on 41st, and go down the Mukilteo Blvd which would take me a bit longer, but I wouldn't be on the freeway.... So I went that way and drove by the "little house" which is what we always called it, and I haven't driven by it but maybe once or twice in the time that we left, and there was a "for sale by owner" sign in front of it.... I slowed down just a touch and my heart went in my throat.... We still aren't in any position really to buy a home, but it was just a little odd.... So I picked up the Stever and told him and I drove him to work the next day also, just so I could drive by a little slower and get the number to call them.
Now what's funny is that I am so shy about calling people on the phone or asking things, that I make other people do it.... UNLESS I really, really want something, because I dropped him off, went back to Nikki's of course, than went back to the BLVD and got the number drove to a parking lot and called it..... No answer so I left a message, just stating that I wanted some info. Etc. Etc......
So 8pm rolls around and my phone rings and it's the owner.... The funny thing is, is that he's British, and just adorable, and I was so honest w/ him about our girls and that I love the place, and is there any chance of them renting, than possibly doing a rent to own.... he than told me, he has been soooo bombarded w/ phone calls that he wouldn't have even called me back, had it not been for how polite I was on the phone.... LOL, I guess all those years at WAMU customer service paid off huh???? lol, so as he was telling me details, he than was beginning to tell me how small it is, so I finally told him that we used to live there, and how special the house was to us, etc. etc. And he said what a joy it was that someone actually liked the house, because I guess everyone that called him, wanted to knock the house down, and than rebuild.... Well it is as I said S M A L L, but it's ours, and I can see adding onto it, but not knocking it down. So I met him last Friday, and he said that he had to talk to his business partner to make sure that they might consider renting for the time being because they have had bad luck w/ that in the past... So the whole weekend, I was on pins and needles it was horrible.... He finally called me Monday night and said it was ours if we wanted................. OMG.............. So it took the first couple days of the week to get our schedules coordinated to get keys, and paperwork exchanged but it's all done, and we are now in between homes.... It's been amazing... But I have been soooo busy between houses packing, cleaning, painting (yeah that was interesting), stressing... I'm surprised I know my own name... Sigh....
I do want to share this very personal thing though because it's one of those "it's meant to be" kind of things.....
When the Stever and I lived there before, some of our most precious memories, were watching the sunset from the top of the shed, (thanks Jenette for cluing us in on that one), watching the fireworks on Whidbey Island from our front yard, not having neighbors connected to your walls, and most of all.... Hearing the sea lions bark echo from down on the beach....
Well Friday was actually Steve's first day seeing the house since this all went down, so he was going to see the renovation that we're made, etc.... Well as soon as we pulled up and got out of the truck.... What did we hear.... Our sea lions barking....
so as I said before Nikki moved back home, and it all came back around full circle..... I may be giving up 1/2 my space, and 1/2 my furniture, but I'm gaining a full home, and w/ my husband and my girls, I couldn't be more blessed.....
xoxoxo
Ander