I am excited and relieved to report that we have moved out of the house that was zapping our will to live and moved into a beautiful and, just as important, affordable apartment.  People keep being sympathetic about us losing our home which I appreciate, but I’m honestly ok with it.  In fact, I’m more than ok. I’m thrilled!  I am an oddly pragmatic person considering my high strung personality.  As soon as we put that place on the market it became a commodity and ceased to be my home and all I wanted was out.

Our new home is so pretty!  It was built in 2016 and is LEED certified so it has a lot of great features.  It’s smaller, but we got a really convenient storage unit close by that was a great deal.  We moved just South of Downtown and I love being in a new neighborhood.  We had lived within a one mile radius for over 15 years and I really enjoyed it, but this was a wonderful time to try something new.  As you know I am a huge fan of fresh starts and I feel so grateful to have this one.

We may have lost our house and the nest egg that it represented, but I feel so lucky.  I am so thankful to have this apartment and a healthy family I can barely contain myself sometimes.  When people are sad for me about it I want to remind them that just two years ago I was having such mental health challenges that I didn’t know if I would make it.  Then I remember that most of them probably didn’t realize how sick I really was and that’s probably for the best.  After all, not everyone is as strong as I am.  (Thankfully I still have my sense of humor, it’s free afterall)

Do your thrifty best!

Lisa