I Dreamed A Dream • Kath Eats

Listed below are some life updates. Cue the music ‘I Dreamed A Dream: the Glee model!’

I’ve been singing this music since I noticed Les Mis final yr, and it’s very becoming for all of the life modifications I’ve been by means of prior to now six months.

The largest replace is that we bought our home.

It occurred so much quicker then I ever thought it could. We determined to market it in early 2026 and two of our realtor buddies agreed to co-list as sellers brokers (how might we ever select?!). We used Ivy Haines at Nest Realty and Jeff Mattie at CORE – they have been each superior for those who want a realtor!

Earlier than we knew it, the home was staged they usually have been internet hosting a dealer’s open for different realtors. It seemed SO GOOD staged that I want we’d employed a stager years in the past!

The subsequent day we had a full value supply earlier than it even went available on the market.

This whole course of was extraordinarily bittersweet. It’s very unhappy to consider the goals we had for the home and all of the reminiscences shared there, from bringing Birch house from the hospital by means of the pandemic and into the main renovation we did considering we’d stay for a few years.

This home was my house for 11 years – the longest I’ve lived wherever since I left for faculty. I used to be very hooked up to it. However everyone knows house is the place the guts is, and my coronary heart moved out final yr.

By means of the spring we bought furnishings, moved valuables and junk, and cleared out the closets. Gosh it was a lot work! And final month we stated goodbye as the brand new homeowners moved in. It’s nonetheless just a little laborious to wrap my thoughts round, however life modifications are by no means simple.

A Window Was Opened

And as this stuff go, when life closes a door, it opens a window. And generally a window with a really good view!

I had simply re-signed my lease and acquired a brand new washer/dryer for my rental. I had no intention of shifting and meant to remain at the least one other yr. After which one evening, when my dad and mom have been visiting, we went for a stroll and I seen one of many townhouses on my “I’d like to purchase this after I’m prepared” neighborhood was on the market.

I casually texted my realtor pal Ivy asking if we must always go in “simply to see what they’re like.” Throughout our stroll by means of the following morning, I had that “when you understand, you understand” feeling. Every part about this townhouse was what I believed I’d search for after I was prepared to purchase once more. I spent the day making an attempt to inform myself it was not time to purchase a home. I crunched numbers on ChatGPT and requested my dad and mom what I ought to do. And when it got here down to creating a choice, I couldn’t consider cause not to go for it.

So I made a proposal, which was accepted, and we’ll be shifting in later this month!

The brand new home is similar to our rental, which I like for thus many causes, however it has all of the upgrades I’d need to truly purchase. The primary characteristic within the new place is the worst factor about my rental: the view. Proper now I look into my neighbor’s porch, and on the new place I look out on a mountain.

Present view:

It additionally has a beautiful kitchen with nicer home equipment, a greater format, extra home windows, an precise laundry room, a bonus loft house, greater bogs, and the most important promoting level: a tremendous rooftop deck for entertaining! We’re additionally so excited to affix this neighborhood neighborhood the place there are many youngsters my boys’ ages.

Whereas I’m not wanting ahead to packing and shifting once more, I do know as soon as all of the mud has actually settled I shall be so glad.

The boys and I are heading to Common Studios Florida to have fun the start of summer season and all issues Harry Potter. I’ll be again with all of the enjoyable of that journey in every week or so.

xx,

Kath