After looking at the neighborhood last weekend and talking to some folks, we put our names on a waiting list for lots. From what was explained to us about how quickly the lots were moving, I didn’t expect to get a call that our number was up for a month or more, a few weeks at the least.
We got the call today.
Not only is our number up, but it is for one of the lots we were looking at and hoping that it wouldn’t before we were up. It is the largest lot in this section of the development at a booming 7300 square feet. It will be gardening culture shock for me to go to something that small, but will sure take a lot less time to care for.
We will be spending the next couple days creatively putting together the required earnest money, and with any luck my left eye will stop twitching sometime before we go in to get the whole ball officially rolling.
We are primarily looking forward to the extra space we will have. The 5 of us are currently milling around in a little more than 1500 square feet of house, and we will be rolling in the lap of luxury in the new house which is a hair under 2100 square feet.
I think the thing I’m looking forward to the most is having bathrooms that have enough room to turn around in without bumping into the sink, tub/shower or toilet. The ones we have now are about 5 feet by 6 feet of total space. Not fun if you have more than one person getting ready for work/school in the mornings. We’ve done a creative shuffle for the past (almost) three years, but I could go for not having to do that dance every morning as the kids get bigger!
Nothing is a done deal yet, and the way I’m feeling tonight with this happening so much more quickly than I was prepared for, I feel like we should run screaming. Of course, that will go away as I get more comfortable with it. I just need to keep reminding myself that even though we are starting all this today, ground has not even been broken yet on constructing the house. By the time it is completed and we actually move in, it will be close to the time I originally thought we would be moving.
I think I need to go calm my nerves with some mint chocolate chip ice cream.