A home of our own

Today was the day. After 6 weeks of inspections, waiting, thinking and moving, I closed on our new house. It will be the first place I have ever owned in 20 years of living on my own. Apartments, rent houses and Army housing, I've never had a place that, ultimately, I was responsible for.

As of today, there is a place like that. The first load of our household goods arrives in the morning. Now the time consuming task of unloading box after box of stuff looms. But I'm ready to do that. It will finally be time to trim down on the number of items we don't need in our home anymore. I have more space to fill since this house is about 450 sq ft bigger than our last one.

Campbell is ready for a big girl bed so I bought a new twin bed frame for her. We have two decent sized family rooms (one up and one down) so we needed a new couch and love seat as well. If anyone reading is interested in seeing builder pictures and a floor plan, let me know and I'll steer you toward the builder's site.

Tomorrow, before the furniture comes, I'll snap some pics of the interior and post them up. I had the girls rooms painted; pastel blue for Ellie like her room in Alaska was and lilac for Campbell since she insists her favorite color is purple. And the study is... Burnt Orange of course. I'll hang all of Jennifer's Texas oriented art in there along with a few other Longhorn things.

It will be interesting mixing my spartan, man oriented taste with having two girls.

As I left the closing, I had a few moments in the car where I wished that I wasn't doing this alone. I doubt I'll ever shake that feeling.