After a seemingly endless weekend of waiting for the mortgage broker to return my call, we finalized the contract on the house this morning. The sellers made us an awesome deal - they accepted our initial offer as long as we could close escrow by the end of August, which means we have three short weeks until the house is OURS!

The process of chosing the loan was no easy feat. For the last two months, we've been actively… Read More

My post today is part of Family.com's Comment Mania! Contest. Basically, they'll give a prize to the person who leaves the best comment this week (on the full article, not this blog post), so be sure to go over there and check it out! Here's a sampling:

Genoa has never been a good sleeper. Before and after every major milestone -- rolling over, crawling, walking, and the regular appearances of new teeth -- she has completely stopped sleeping. I would be up… Read More

Unlike most parents, I wasn't all that freaked out about the idea of having a second child. I don't rememeber wasting my time worrying about how I was going to handle a second baby or if I would love the baby as much as I loved my sweet firstborn boy. I am the second of four relatively happy and well-adjusted children, so I went into parenthood fully understanding the exponential nature of family love. Kids with siblings get the benefit… Read More

So far we've fallen in love with two different houses. Or so I thought. The night we were tentatively planning to make an offer on The White House, Dave came across The Repo House and it was so deliciously under-priced that we made an offer. That offer expires today and we've never heard back on it, so it's obviously dead on the vine. By the time we called the agent to tell her we were making an offer, The Repo… Read More

Two years ago I wrote a post about an offensive t-shirt I saw in a local shop window. It was one of those stores where young girls can have makeover parties and get their hair and makeup done. The shirt read, "Math makes me dizzy," a phrase that still makes me cringe, particularly since math is so key my profession as a financial planner. The idea that pretty girls don't have to worry about having brains still makes my blood… Read More

In a couple of hours, we're heading to the Realtor's office to draw up our offer on the dream house. We've been back and forth all week about the Homeowner's Association documents and whether or not we even have a copy of the correct ones. It might not seem like all that much of a hang-up, but we really want to make sure that we'll have at least some freedom to what we want with the house and the yard.
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