I Stopped Myself

See this kitchen? I ab.so.lute.ly LOVE it! This is what made me start thinking, yesterday, about cleaning and packing. Today, forget it.

Background: Yesterday hubby sends an email with a few mls numbers and says "take a look, what do you think?" I immediately look and see the house that this kitchen belongs in, and realize it is a house I had looked at online several months ago, when the price was more than I liked. Now, it is at an unbelievable price and I love, love, love the house! I am already mentally placing my furniture in the house and planning parties! When hubby gets home I start talking about The House. Then hubby says, "Well I don't want to have to finance that much."

The amount that we would finance is NOT that much. I know how frugal hubby is, but thought that he was finally seeing the good buys that we were letting slip through our hands because of his reluctance to spend any money. See, we paid off our mortgage, gosh, it's probably been almost four years ago. Then we bought the lake house and paid that off almost two years ago. Hubby likes not owing anyone anything! And, I do too, but it's not like we would be doing something that was putting a strain on us. He keeps talking about how he wants to move to a bigger house and he doesn't like our neighborhood. The guy that owns the company hubby works for just bought a house in Lake Lure and one of the other guys in the office is closing on a new house in Bluffton next week (and they had just moved there and bought a house a little over a year ago, but this was a deal they couldn't pass up!). So I guess I thought he was feeling a little more confident about making a move. But, I thought wrong. I have decided that he can look all he wants, I'm not going to get sucked into the possibilities that never materialize!

There are some things I would like to change around the house, you know, small cosmetic things like the lighting fixtures in some of the rooms. So, I am going to enjoy my present home and be happy that we continue to be totally debt free!

~Steph