We are officially home owners!
We signed the title papers and submitted our check for the down payment last night . The house is officially ours!
We get the keys tomorrow and we can't wait to open that door, walk inside and look on it all as ours for the first time.
It's amazing how quickly all of this has happened; we're moving in this weekend.
In other news, Chantelle is beautiful as ever, albeit much rounder with child. She's been the most amazing partner through all of this and I couldn't ask for a more reasonable, honest, rational, loving, humorous...well I could go on and on. I was telling some friends the other night that these big life changes are the kind of thing that usually test a relationship. Every day I marvel at how easy it has been though. I expected more stress, more doubt, more emotional poo, but it hasn't really happened. Granted, there are still greater tests to come but I'm moving towards the future with positive expectations based on the way we have handled everything together so far. It's a good place to be at this point in my life.
Strange to think...this is the year everything changed. Twenty years from now I will look back on 2008 as a significant turning point in my life, for better or worse. I will have bought a house, got engaged, and become a father this year. All of this against the backdrop of a world in crisis- a world in transition. Our leadership is changing, our economy is changing and technological progress marches ever forward. What world will my son grow up in? What will I tell him about life before 2008? He'll be growing up in a neighborhood less than two miles from the neighborhood I grew up in. What about his childhood will be the same as mine? What will be different? What new opportunities for learning and growth will be unique to his generation and will they save the world? I've always been an avid futurist but adding the perspective of fatherhood has given subtle new meanings to the future- added a new set of angles and dimensions I never noticed or cared to consider before. I'm rather enjoying the ride.
The last few weeks have been a flurry of activity so we haven't had much time to see friends or attend parties. I hope you all are doing well. We miss you and look forward to having you over for a BBQ and beers some day. Goodbye for now, my lovelies! :)
_Phaedrus_
We get the keys tomorrow and we can't wait to open that door, walk inside and look on it all as ours for the first time.
It's amazing how quickly all of this has happened; we're moving in this weekend.
In other news, Chantelle is beautiful as ever, albeit much rounder with child. She's been the most amazing partner through all of this and I couldn't ask for a more reasonable, honest, rational, loving, humorous...well I could go on and on. I was telling some friends the other night that these big life changes are the kind of thing that usually test a relationship. Every day I marvel at how easy it has been though. I expected more stress, more doubt, more emotional poo, but it hasn't really happened. Granted, there are still greater tests to come but I'm moving towards the future with positive expectations based on the way we have handled everything together so far. It's a good place to be at this point in my life.
Strange to think...this is the year everything changed. Twenty years from now I will look back on 2008 as a significant turning point in my life, for better or worse. I will have bought a house, got engaged, and become a father this year. All of this against the backdrop of a world in crisis- a world in transition. Our leadership is changing, our economy is changing and technological progress marches ever forward. What world will my son grow up in? What will I tell him about life before 2008? He'll be growing up in a neighborhood less than two miles from the neighborhood I grew up in. What about his childhood will be the same as mine? What will be different? What new opportunities for learning and growth will be unique to his generation and will they save the world? I've always been an avid futurist but adding the perspective of fatherhood has given subtle new meanings to the future- added a new set of angles and dimensions I never noticed or cared to consider before. I'm rather enjoying the ride.
The last few weeks have been a flurry of activity so we haven't had much time to see friends or attend parties. I hope you all are doing well. We miss you and look forward to having you over for a BBQ and beers some day. Goodbye for now, my lovelies! :)
_Phaedrus_