Current state of the home.
To stay positive about our home building experience, Graham and I have been compiling a list of things that our new house will do that will improve our lives:
- It will help us lose 10 pounds automatically. Dubious claim, you say? No way!
- Our house will alert us when our kids' nails need to be trimmed, and it will clean up the little tiny nail clippings that are so hard to clean up!
- Our new house will not only do our laundry, but will also put the clothes away too!
- The house will cook healthy meals on weeknights!
- Our house will keep our toddler from getting into everything and destroying our stuff!
- Our new house will keep our food from spoiling prematurely.
- The new house will make us happy for ever and ever.
- The house will save us thousands of dollars!!
- Our new house will help us make BFF's.
Ok, so this is an obvious exaggeration of the benefits to our new house. However, we did notice that we kept saying to each other, well, once we're in the new house.. or, this wouldn't happen in the new house.. Which is kind of a dangerous way of thinking, like life all of a sudden will be amazing and perfect once we live somewhere new. Spoiler alert: it won't. We will still be the same people with the same lives.
But let me tell you the things that will actually make our lives better in the new house...
- While the house won't make us lose 10 pounds, we will definitely be less stressed with lower levels of cortisol. Also, the workout room means more concentrated workout times and a specific place. I'm excited for more cardio because our current townhouse might tumble to the ground if I start doing TurboFire HIIT workouts again.
- I wish the kids' nails would no longer require trimming in the new house, but our robot vacuum will definitely help clean up the mess!
- Laundry = the neverending story. The worst. The one thing our new house will do is allow us to put all of our clothes away in the house! Our old house had small closets, so we had to keep some clothes and shoes in the garage.
- I can't even emphasize how much our current kitchen stresses me out. It's unbelievably small. The new kitchen will hold ALLLLL of my stuff and have a pantry. It's going to be so amazing. Plus, the double oven means I'll be baking more fresh bread!
- Having a new house that is 100% ours will allow us to put toddler locks on our stuff. We have been in our rental townhouse for a year, and Sadie gets into our stuff DAILY, like my makeup, Graham's shaving cream, and Carter's toothpaste. I'm so excited to put toddler locks on the cabinets!
- The MINIature fridge we have right now is one of my current pet peeves. It is so small that when you put one thing on a shelf, another thing falls out of the fridge. Without fail. Plus, the cooling mechanism is so spotty that it half freezes anything in the back or side of the fridge. We are throwing away soooooo much food! I am incredibly excited for a new Samsung fridge with water and an ice maker! I haven't had one since I moved out of my parents' house in 2001.
- Ok, we are not guaranteed to have eternal happiness in our house.. But, we will be able to host out-of-town family (and we both have big families!) for family get togethers, and that will make us truly happy.
- The new house is currently costing us thousands of dollars, but it will pay off in the end. The energy efficiency is key, as well as the increasing cost of homes in the area (thank you HGTV for featuring a home in our area!). We couldn't afford to buy what we are building, so this will all be worth it when we get our home appraised when it's completed.
- Lastly, we have friends and family that have been our friends for a long time, but we will have new neighbors that will be awesome friends now and in the future.
One thing to remember: we are beyond blessed to have this opportunity to build a family home.
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