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Ok, so I have to brag on my husband a little bit. Though most of you have already heard this story before, it is definitely blog worthy.

I’ve really been missing my family. It’s been May since I’ve seen most of them, and they are all together for Christmas in Kentucky. This being Andrew’s first year as an operator in a mall store didn’t really conduce to travelling during the Christmas season. So, here we are. Stuck in a house without a tree or decorations since we were supposed to be in our new house by now. We didn’t see the point in getting our decorations out only to pack them back in a box a day or two later.

So it’s been kind of a tough Christmas. Monday night, we get home from looking at Christmas lights with some friends and Andrew wants to go to bed at like 9:30 which is a rarity for him. He had to get up really early and was exhausted already. I think I remember his alarm going off around 5 the next morning but didn’t pay much attention. I went back to sleep until around 7:15. Then I opened the door of our bedroom to an amazing surprise. There was a tree, complete with lights, stockings hung and the entire living room decorated for Christmas! My mouth just hung wide open. I looked at Andrew at the kitchen table and didn’t even know what to say! Finally, I said “It’s a Christmas miracle!”

My amazing and wonderful husband got up at 5, went to Walgreens to buy a tree, assembled it and decorated the entire living room before I got up that morning! It really did turn things around for me. Though I still miss my parents and brother and sister-in-law it is so comforting to know I have a husband who cares about me so much. So here’s a little picture for you. Andrew is playing Mario Kart in case you were wondering what he’s doing

If I remember correctly, I wrote a blogpost around this time last year about moving. Except last year I was at home alone for 5 weeks packing up the house while Andrew was at Operator Training!

This year it’s a whole different scenario…

We started looking to buy our first house about a month ago. We were set on staying in the Jupiter area but after a little more thought and prayer we ventured up to the Palm City area. It’s close to 95 and the turnpike and a lot closer to Andrew’s store. We went up to Palm City about 2 weeks ago and fell in love with the 3rd house we saw. And the most amazing part about it was the price! We couldn’t believe the deal we could potentially end up getting.

We walked in and were greeted by this awesome, older lady who was selling the house (Mitsy). We immediately clicked and ended up chatting most of the time we were there. She is a Christian and was super excited about the potential of a young, Christian couple buying her house. She had dropped the price $50,000 2 days before we looked at it! She already had one offer on the table and I think ended up having 3-4 offers total. Mitsy told her Realtor she really wanted us to have it. So even though there was at least one higher offer than ours, she accepted ours!

What a God thing.

We feel truly blessed as we are going to have about $50,000 of immediate equity in the house. Everything is brand new too: the roof, ac, water heater, hurricane shutters. It’s a great, safe neighborhood and Andrew’s favorite part: we’re on the 18th hole of a golf course.

Since Mitsy accepted our offer, she has already called me twice. One time to just say, “Happy Thanksgiving!” and then I chatted with her for about 20 minutes today. She just wanted to know if we had any questions or wanted to look at the house again and see if she could do anything for us. It’s really been an unreal process as far as first-time home buying goes. I told Mitsy as soon as we were settled in we were going to have her over for dinner. I have a feeling she might become a sort of surrogate great grandmother to our kids someday! Haha.. she is only moving about 2 miles down the road.

We should close in about 2-3 weeks. This blog post is a total distraction of the fact that I have an entire house to pack up. At least this time I’ve got Andrew to help me!