Dear Blog
Great news!!!
Our home!
Our house!
The house Gerard and I have worked to buy and pay off is FINALLY ours!!!
The house is paid off!! We have a home! We are just one month away from getting married, but now we have a house to go home to!!
This great news! I can’t wait to share it will the family and friends!
CELEBRATING TONIGHT!!!
XOXO
Desirae
UPDATED:
Dear Blog
Today is a very happy day that Gerard and I. The final paperwork for our house has gone through.
(funny note: My computer has Speech Recognition, So I was dictating this entry, and I said “The final paperwork for our house has gone through.” and the computer wrote “The final paperwork for hell has gone through.”
I laughed my head off.. I hope it’s not a sign…)
We have officially finished paying off our new house. I’m so excited to get started on furnishing it. I soon as the bank and real estate guy called me. I called Gerard and he was very excited as well. I invited Bryce and him over to the house tonight so we can open a bottle of champagne to celebrate.
I think what we’re most proud about the fact that this house was bought by just Gerard and I. Our parents had offered to help with the payment, but we made it clear that we wanted this to be our house.
Most newlywed couples usually buy an apartment, than a house and then eventually move to live into a bigger house when children come around.
However, Gerard and I are not sure when “we’ll have children”, so we decided to go straight into buying a new house. As I mentioned before this house is in a secure location and has very few neighbors around. So we have the privacy we would need in case Bryce should ever decide to move in with us for more than just a couple days.
On a day when there isn’t much traffic, the house is just about 30 minutes away from my parents and about 40 minutes-to-an-hour away from Gerard’s mother’s house.
When my parents got married my grandparents on my father’s side, bought them their house. The house they bought them was right next door to their own house which meant the family was always close and always… In each other’s business.
My dad, tried to follow the family tradition, and offered to buy us our first house but I knew that he would get something that was too close to their own house. (and even if he did buy a house that was far way, I didn’t want the feeling that the house Gerard and I lived in was my father’s house).
I made it very clear my parents that I wanted this house to be just Gerard and my house. And I also told them this is it was the first time that I would live far away from home, I wanted my privacy. In twenty three years I’d never traveled anywhere beyond a couple of miles away from my own house. To actually have my own house with Gerard far away from family and most friends is something that I really want. Gerard had been traveling the world since he was 16 years old, he has gone to Europe, Spain, etc.
This time I was going to be in my own house, with Gerard, and even though I love my parents, I want the independents I know I should have tried to have gained while back.
So we have our house. We have a house to come back to after the honeymoon!!
This week we will probably move in all the boxes of things that we have. I have most of my items packed (some things will stay at my parents house until we have settled in better)
I am guessing that after the honeymoon we will really start unpacking boxes and setting up the house. (I’ll probably get stuck unpacking everything while Gerry is at work… my job starts later.)
Anyway, it’s later! I’ll update later!
XOXO
Desirae
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