Home Inspection - Check!

February 07, 2012

Home Inspection - Check!

We went through home inspection yesterday for the new house in Fairfax. Thankfully, everything well incredibly well. The only major issue was some water pooling in the back yard. I am meeting with a drainage & landscape guy on Wednesday morning to see what can be done and how much it will cost. The back yard is such an asset to the property and we are so excited to finally have some outdoor space. We don't want a soggy yard and mosquitos. Most of the other issues are fixes we can do or recommendations for the future.

Oliver came along with us to the house for the inspection. We set him up with a video and he was content for most of the morning. He did do some exploring and selected his bedroom. It was so cute watching him run around the house. It is going to be so nice to have so much more room and a backyard.

Each day that goes by, I am more and more thankful that the Vienna property didn't work out for us. The house is perfect for the kids needs and we are so excited to make it our home. We close in about 3 weeks!!

Comments

Kate said…

Shannon,
I've been off the blog circuit for a couple of weeks ... What a whirlwind turn of events! Continued prayers for the house and so excited it sounds like you have found a perfect fit for your family!!

February 8, 2012 at 2:54 PM

Welcome to Holland

By Emily Perl Kingsley

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland.""Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.