When my oldest daughter was first born she had a lot of complications and ended up spending 28 days in the NICU (you can read her birth story here). Based on her birth we knew there had been some amount of trauma to the brain, we just didn't know how much. Luckily, our daughter has mainly had a hard ...
Why You Should Enjoy Hard Times in Life
The last almost two years of my life felt very transitional for me. My husband and I hadn't lived in a place that we knew was a more permanent residence since March of 2019. We, just two weeks ago, moved into our first home, and even that is still taking time to feel like home. Our last residence I ...
What Turns a House into a Home
The thing I was most excited for this year was to move into our first house. There were many nights that I couldn't sleep because I was too excited about our house. There was so much excitement and anticipation that went into the process of building a home. It was a very fun time of life to have. It ...
The Stress-free Way to Pack for a Move
When it comes to packing I'm usually extremely unorganized. There have been times where I threw everything into random boxes a few days before a move and called it good. I'm sure you can imagine the mess of unpacking that move. I would only give myself a week before moving to pack. This time around ...
Building a House instead of Buying
If you live in Idaho, then you know how crazy the housing market has been. My husband and I had been perusing houses on Realtor and Zillow for months before deciding we actually wanted to build. It was a decision we had been considering for months, but when the opportunity came we had to jump on it. ...
Why We are Choosing a Conventional Loan over an FHA Loan
Before I got really into house hunting and trying to guess how much our monthly expenses would cost each month with a mortgage, homeowners insurance, property taxes, and so on, I had no idea there were different kinds of loans you could take out to get a home. I thought you had to put 20% down on a ...
