Eek. Double eek!!
We have a move in our imminent future, though we're not quite sure yet when this will all shake down. Yes, we found out yesterday afternoon that our app for an apartment got approved! I'd looked at several places a few weeks prior, then put the brakes on things while we tried to figure out some "life stuff" and then knowing a little more, we resumed looking.
On Tuesday, Maggie and I saw the nicest place yet, though I still wasn't sure it was quite the right place for us. (Reality check: no place may be at this point in our lives.) It's a big beautiful old Victorian mansion that has been restored and split into 5 apartments - and the place we looked at was the 2bed/1bath on the second floor. It's immaculate - and joy of joys for this renter whose been around the block a few times - they spray for bugs quarterly. (You don't realize what a gift that is until... yup, you've had bugs. *shudder*) More than I can say for some landlords, but I digress.... ;) It's within walking distance to just about everything (the church, downtown, farmer's market, the park) and though a smaller than our current dwelling (umm, and as everything is in our "price range"), it may work well for the foreseeable future. It will also require of us some major budgeting, but we knew this day would come ... and now we have to make it work!
Of course, moving into town we will lose some sweet comforts of living at "Casa Swank" ... freakloads of storage/space, yard to run around in, our own laundry, 2 baths and a dishwasher. (Oh my, life without a dishwasher. Sigh.) Living rent-free. (Oh Lordy, I will miss that.) And, well, the peace and serenity of the countryside and all that schtuff. ;) I have appreciated our time here in Trappe immensely and am thankful for the generosity of Bill and Lois, who opened their home to us. It allowed us to figure out what was important to us (renting vs. buying) and really, for me to be home (reasonably comfortably) with Maggie. I hope that with some adjustments to our budgeting and priorities, my being Maggie's full time mom and a full time student can continue.
But I am excited to get back into town ... I think it will help us to have more time together as a family ... do less driving and continue to figure out what our next steps are. In all honesty, there's a lot of uncertainty in our life right now, but we've got each other and now we know where we'll lay our heads in the coming months. Some of that uncertainty includes just how we're going to manage pulling off a move in the coming week(s)! EEK!
We meet with our new landlord early this afternoon to go over the rental agreement and whatnot, so we'll probably figure out the time line for the move then!
