June 8, 2024 - Saturday

We got a new oven today! We went to the Appliance Factory and found a scratch & dent one in stock. We had to pay about $500, but I couldn't expect it to be much less than that. I feel like that's what we paid 15 years ago too. Not too bad! I think I'll feel a little differently when I get the credit card bill though. With all of the bathroom purchases and the oven, I'm going to be crying over that damn bill. 

Otherwise, we didn't do much. We had our meeting with dad and MJ to make sure we're all on the same page...and we are! We are all happy to live on the same property, as long as the goal is for there to be two structures. We talked about budgets and monthly payments that we can all afford. We also talked about next steps, which I think we all needed to get a push to do. I need to talk to a mortgage lender and a realtor this week. Of course, the timeline for this is all contingent on what Ben's boss says about him working remotely. If he's actually still ok with it, then we're going to move forward. If he's not, then we're staying put until Ben reaches 10 years. We also found a fantastic property, which is exciting, and scary, and possibly futile. It's about 2 acres in the best part of the state, about 10 minutes from Patrick. There's a HUGE house on it already and it's listed for 120k less than our asking price. To top it off, MJ and dad know the owner and it looks like he could potentially hold it for us with a good faith downpayment. Pretty crazy! Trying to not get my hopes up about this, because we just don't know our timeline yet.