It has been a busy, stressful month since I last wrote, but I'm happy to say that it's all in the past and we closed on our new home last Wednesday! When I last wrote, we had just lost out on a home we really, really liked. Seeing and losing that home really got us antsy to find our forever home so we amped up the search that week and found a bunch of houses to go look at the following weekend. We saw a few that were fine, but none of them felt like home when we walked in. We saw some pictures of one that I just couldn't quite wrap my head around, so I wanted to see it in person. When we opened the door, to our surprise the homeowner was walking down the stairs! She was extremely pleasant and said that she didn't drive in the snow (yup, snowing like crazy in April!) and that she would stay out of our way. We walked through the house and loved it. We finished our tour that day and wanted to go back and see this home for a 2nd time. We called the realtor and she...