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October 5, 2022 This past weekend brought about a huge moment of realization. We put in an offer on a house, and it was accepted! For any family, having an offer accepted is a big deal but for Dom, this has a lot of additional significance. Something that he doesn't talk about much is that his family lost their home shortly after he moved to Wisconsin for college. They had lived in that house since he was two years old and when they lost it, he lost everything that wasn't in his suitcase when he went to college sophomore year. He returned to Louisiana every summer and every summer there was no permanent place to go. His family lived in hotel after motel until he graduated, and we began our lives together in our small apartment not far from Dom's first teaching gig. Dom can tell you that for him, the idea of something permanent and longer than a year or two feels like a distant memory and when we think about the future of our family that is the kind of memory we want the boys to have. Megan is excited as well. In fact, she is the driving force in this potential reality coming together! She kept an eye out even after Dom felt it was time to take a break and focus on other things and like magic, she spotted a deal we had only dreamed of. She is the dreamer of the family.We are excited by the possibilities and there are still many logistics to work out. When all is said and done this may not go past the inspection. Whether it does or doesn't this has a huge meaning. We as a family have come so far from single income teacher salary fresh out of college. Together we have lost three out of four parents and brought two gorgeous and kind-hearted boys into this world. We are proud of ourselves whether the appraisal and offer move forward or not. You might also be interested in The past six months have been so transformative for us, and it is hard not to get emotional as we write this last blog post. We are finally financially... And where the heart is, of course… This week has been so trying. We are all recovering (slowly) from the flu that hit us HARD. Dominique and Megan both... We are finally moved into our new home and fully out of our apartment. It was hard to say goodbye to the apartment we had many good memories in, but we... We finally closed on our home on November 30 and have been slowly working on moving responsibilities over the past few days. We have had to make a lot... This week we are coming off of a long weekend after Thanksgiving where we are feeling immense gratitude for so many things. We are thankful for our financial... We were notified this week that we have been cleared to close for our new home. We are so excited to move in and have been so blessed with amazing friends... This week we have been struggling with juggling multiple schedules, illness, outside priorities and activities, and a tumultuous election season. We have... This week we have been working on several things. Our son was accepted to our first-choice preschool and we have been overjoyed. With that joy, there is... This week we worked on spending less and we think we did a better job than previous weeks. We prepared a lot more meals at home and planned to not spend...
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