In early January, I accepted a faculty position at the local university, only the university wasn't local. It was over 1500 miles away from our location in Arizona. We had a house to sell there - which still hasn't sold - a house to buy here, and I was pregnant. In February we started looking at houses in the new city on-line and we came across our house. It was beautifully photographed, built in 1904, classified as a historic beauty. So, we sent my parents to take a look at it for us. They drove 6 hours to photograph the house in March. At first they photos they took were all of the bad things in the house. I'll post those in another post. We felt deflated and depressed. We sent them back in to take more photos - this time of the pretty stuff. After careful consideration, and plenty of discussion with my parents (can you see us living in this house?) we made an offer on the house.
The baby was born March 29th. April saw Easter weekend and the day after our house went on the market. I planted a ton of plants and other last minute improvements were made. On April 27th I had my gall bladder removed and May 11 we hopped on a plane to visit my parents. On May 14, we drove into town and laid eyes on our house for the first time. There are a number of things that we weren't expecting. It is not in as great of condition that we were led to believe and the yard was in horrible shape. But, there was alot of potential. After almost backing out at the closing, partly due to a last minute showing of another house on the market, we signed the papers on May 15.
We were now the proud owners of two houses.
We returned to Arizona and began packing our bags. At the end of June, we departed for our "new" house, Four Square Five South. We know very little about old homes but C is learning along the way. I help out a little bit but I work full time as an assistant professor. This is the blog of our journey.
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