Building with G

Since the new year is...well, new, I have been thinking about all of the blessings that we hope God will rain down on us in the coming year. The most notable of these is the fact that we've been blessed with the opportunity to build our forever home! 

I have been looking forward to building my dream home with the man of my dreams since I was a little girl, and I am so excited that we have finally made it to that point in life. Since we married, I have been slightly obsessed over the building process. My poor hubs has had to listen to my plans for our future home every. single. day. for the past three or four years. Lucky for me, he's a trooper, and he listened to me intently just like we were breaking ground in the next few days. He was never as focused on this one dream as me, but I've finally brought him over to my side. He announced very haphazardly on Christmas Eve that we'd be celebrating Christmas next year in our newly built house. 

Because I have focused nearly all of my "spare time" (I'm a teacher. Spare time. Ha!) on the house of my dreams and also because my husband can be likened to a freight train when he has a goal, the ball started rolling pretty quickly. Within a week, we were approved and had our house plans in our hands and the hands of almost all of the appropriate people. 

We have been in three different building supply stores, each at least two times, this weekend. Side note: Home Depot has BY FAR the most helpful people. We went into two different Lowe's stores, and no one ever offered to help us. We have books about cabinetry, books about flooring, books about countertops, books about bathrooms. There are so, so, so many decisions to make. I thought I knew what I wanted until I saw how many options I had. Add Pinterest to all of those tangible options, and I start to lose my mind. 

This home will be our forever home; we will be a growing family, a family with teenagers, empty nesters, and retirees in this home. It's impossible to plan for all of that. I had imagined that building a house would include making a lot of decisions, but I never knew there were this many options for everything. So far, the only decision we've actually made is what house we're building and where we're going to build it. Lord, help us! 

Oh yeah, I've also decided that I really need Joanna Gaines to come make all of my other decisions for me. That would help a lot!