Most of you probably read my family blog - Little Hip Chicks - but some of you may be brand new here. For those of you that don't know, here is a little history. My husband and I recently sold the house we called home. It was an emotional move for me because it was the house my 3 kids were babies in and the one we had so many wonderful memories in. We wanted a better long-term school solution for our family and bought a new house in a nearby area that is in a top-notch school district. We bought this house for it's amazing location and the beautiful lot that it sits on. The house itself is a 3 bedroom ranch that was built in 1966. The original owner still lived there when we purchased it and while the house was perfectly lovely, it just would not work for our family of five. Before we even closed on the house, we spent months working with an architect to draft house plans to do several thing including remodeling part of the house that is currently there and putting on a large addition. After tons of revisions here and there we finally got our plans finalized and were ready to get bids from builders and select the one we are using.
While the renovations and building is taking place we are staying with my amazing in-laws. The only non-amazing part of this whole situation is that they live a good distance away from the new house. It isn't so bad without traffic (only about 25 minutes), but when you factor in Atlanta commute times, it makes for some crazy drive-times (about an hour!) to and from the kids schools and Robby's office each day. Some people think we are crazy and at times even I am questioning if we are doing the right thing.
Our plan is for this to be our forever house and the one our kids will grow up and make most of their childhood memories in. I know all of the stress, heart-ache and sacrifices we are dealing with now will all be worth it in the end! I hope you will all continue to read along and follow this blog during our building process. I'm excited to document how we will be making this house our home sweet home!
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