Back To The Drawing Board

Hello everyone! So I apologize for taking so long to finally post another blog! I had to travel to North Carolina last week and I stupidly forgot my aircard to connect to the internet. It was awesome. I got back on Friday but as usual, the weekend didn't allow much time for blogging so here we are on Monday again! I have a few things to catch you all up on!

So on Thursday, we decided to make an offer on the colonial-style house that I posted pictures of in the last post. Well, after all of my back and forth in my head, I was actually pretty excited about getting this place. However, the seller didn't accept our offer. We found out on Saturday that the seller had put the house up over 6 months ago for $50,000 more than what she was trying to sell if for now!! So it makes sense that she didn't want to go any lower on the place. She was pretty dang proud of it! I guess if she has the luxury of throwing money down the drain instead of selling the thing, then more power to her! Anyway, in the end, once I started thinking through things again, I felt relieved that we didn't get it. Yes, it's a cute place and yes, we really could have made it shine but without knowing how MH's job is going to work out, it was a scary thing to put all of our money into buying it. So our plan now is to try and find a place that's less expensive and won't cause us to use all of our "cushion" in savings to get into it. We also thought that we would go ahead and rent but that didn't work out too well either! We called I think 5 different posts from craigslist and only heard back from one. We went and saw it and it was probably the most depressing thing we've seen yet.

All of this, added on to the fact that I haven't seen the sun again in a week, makes me very frustrated and depressed. I go through half of the day just not wanting to talk to anyone and trying not to cry. I'm trying not to feel like this but it's hard. When I get to be home with Little Miss, it helps, sort of, because she is so funny and you can't help but put on a smile with her. But on the other hand, I have a shorter temper so when she starts getting fussy, I am having a harder time dealing with it. I keep saying, literally over and over, that there is a reason we are here and everything will fall into place for us. But I go back and forth between wanting to buy here or rent here because buying feels a lot more permanent and that scares me, but renting would mean giving up so much and possibly feeling unhappy about what we had to settle on in a rental. Honestly, if you could see the options we have for renting, you would be all for us buying too. It's just crazy how different two states can be. I just figured that no matter where you go there would be nicer places that are comparable to the places you can find in Denver. But every city here is just so old that you just don't find that here. Either that, or the prices are just too high. So anyway, I'm back to questioning what the heck we are doing with our lives but feeling like we don't have any other options right now. It's all very upbeat, huh?

So I don't want to end on such depressing news so I thought I'd show some more pictures of Little Miss being just adorable. She has gotten into dressing up so she will go into my closet most nights and grab some heels to walk around in. It's so funny, but she walks fairly well in them! So the other night, I decided to make her a little dress to go with it. Here was the insanely adorable result:

Hehe. Cute.

Positive Milwaukee Note: Saturday Night Live is on an hour earlier here!! I'm not really sure why but since I usually stay up to watch it on Saturday nights but then fall asleep within the opening monologue, this is very good news for me!