We bought it

On Wednesday evening we officially purchased our first home. All it required was all of the money we have ever made*, plus a lot of signatures.Here it is!

It is much too large for us and has a pool. From our bedroom window you can see a palm tree. Eric and I keep asking each other: is this really our house? 

I am a healthy mix of excited, daunted, eager to actually move in and completely exhausted (though this last one is not just because of the house).

We won't actually be moving in for a couple of weeks because what's left of our money will be going towards a new roof, new floors for the upstairs and a thorough de-cat-ifying of the house so that Eric doesn't need to live on Claritin for as long as we live in this house.

All of our worldly belongings should arrive by October 14th but we have been warned by other people who have moved that we shouldn't really be too confident that will actually happen. We may be urban camping for quite a while.

*Just most of it, actually. Not all of it. I promise.