excited to move in

yesterday we paid the balance of the downpayment for the house and lot yesterday. honestly, processing the papers and getting the loan fixed have been all the we're thinking about for the past few days. moving out of the apartment and moving into our own place. its really fun and exciting to think about finally investing in our own house, something we know we will be living in for the long term and something we can finally call our own. its something really special for tabs and me, we know we have probably lapsed in saving or investing, but we do have our own car and house now, so in a sense it is the fulfillment of all our dreams and our hopes for our family. we recognize we will have tougher times ahead of us in the near future once we live farther from work, but that's something we can eventually adjust to and hopefully our income and our financial state will get better in the next few years. its all a matter of working hard for it.

the exciting thing for us is really the part about leaving this apartment and moving there. its quite a challenging phase since we have to do a LOT of packing up because we have a lot of stuff here. and then we have to squeeze the stuff we have into the house and organize it so it won't be messy. i want our own place to be really organized and clean. because its ours for keeps.

oh, and another exciting part I'm looking forward to is to have a nursery for jessica. since we're moving into a 4-bedroom house, I've alloted the small room for Marites, our yaya, and the next smaller room for Jessica's nursery/playroom. I plan to put rubber mats all over the floor of the room and then put up a mattress there so that yaya and jessica can also sleep there. but there won't be any bedframes because I don't want any hard surfaces there. it should just be the mattress, the rubber mats and I'll have all her toys there so she can play and go around there to her hearts content without me having to worry about her bumping her head all over the hard surfaces. looking forward to that most of all!