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First buy!!!!!!!!


We bought our first thing for the house!!! The closing date is still the 24 but at this point unless a freak thing happens it is ours!!! This may be silly to you but this is a first for me so I wanted to share with you our new door!!!

Don’t mind the mess and the snow from our lovely storm last night but , this is the Bernier home new door with frame laying behind it!!!

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My kitchen floor

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This is what I decided on my kitchen floor, now as you know, we bought a house. The closing is coming up now and we need to do floors b 4 we move in. The kitchen is actually the one place I do not need a floor, lol, but we are going to try to reduce the hardwood already in the dining room and lay some in the living room. The kitchen is the major huge remodel so it’s were my brain mostly is. 

Just some quick before pics so u remember the space. The dining room is hardwood under all that old carpet glue and stuff. The kitchen has this down now which will due till we are ready to remodel the whole place but I want to make sure the floor going from the brown wood dining room to the grey wood kitchen will look ok.

Then being the awesome man he is, he brought me home a bunch of tile samples and with that added to stuff I have I decided to do my own mosaic backsplash. 

I have some plain blue broken glass from a casserole dish plus whites, Grey’s and blue tiles and I’m going to just keep collecting!!! I’m so excited. I’m thinking the top cabinets will be white distressed and the bottom a distressed blue. The counter itself we haven’t decided on yet. We are taking wood pieces, like paint sticks, and putting them on the doors for a better look, taking out that ugly paneling on top and putting up a bigger molding to that and some for under the cabinets get the high end look. I may make that a shelf if possible and put some of my blue glass there. 

So much to do, we have, a dining room chandelier we are going to make our own version of, we are leaving the wood in the dining room and painting on the top , the living room will be the sage green like David likes and then I want the dining room to the it all together but I just haven’t decided on the color yet. 

So, downstairs of my house with all the beautiful wood will be colbolt blue, sage green, grey and white. I think…..

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Quicken loans not so good

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You see the commercial for them, they imply they can get you to the buying process of a home quick. I guess to that part it’s ok but, after they say you qualify and make a bid, the owners except the bid, then it’s so much b.s. that you have to deal with!! Buying a house, a home is stressful. Waiting is stressful. You need to have inspections, well yes, of course you want to do that. You have a list of things, papers to fill out and copy and information they need that comes up on your account. Once that’s all done it’s like they stop paying attention. They do not talk to each other and they don’t read every note in your file until after they have sent you email contradicting each other. 

Inspector, comes, says you need to paint. It’s 12 degrees out. We can put the money in escrow to do it later. That goes through three different people that David has to keep explaining it to. They are not in maine obviously. They finally get past that. They say it all looks good, once we know we have all the paperwork done then we can close in ten days or so after that. Great! Nope. 

Then they decide they want a handrail on the basement stairs, ok. Then they say , now we need another inspection for the handrail. The realtor took pictures and sent them but nope, not good enough. So goodbye ten days. Now we have to wait for someone to go to the house, look at the rail, shake it a few times and say, ok. Then they need to do the paperwork and send that in. Are you kidding me???

I understand we are taking out a mortgage and the bank wants to make sure it’s worth the investment, ok, I understand if they wanted a couple things done, ok, but, get your carp straight! It’s like a ping ball game going back and forth and back and forth!!! Like this isn’t a huge enough deal but to add a completely unorganized company running the show constantly jerking you back and forth!!!!, it’s not my recommendation to use Quicken Loans!!!

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It all comes back….

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The way we raise our kids always comes back to us. 

I started off wrong with my boys but saw that and corrected it early enough for them to be mentally and emotionally stable when it was time, example. My son jacob is currently working as a CNA and is not stopping there, he wants to be a dr. A mother like me could not be more  proud. He grew up in rentals his whole life and was broke always but that didn’t stop him and I hope it never stops any other kid!

Now if you completely smother them, manipulate them into believing what you want them to about people especially,  it will come back. Point blank….

A mother tells her new husbands mother, u will never see him or any children we have….

Tell the kids awful lies and make up stories to try to make them always see things your way and never ever in dads way, try to keep them always under your thumb….

What do you really think will happen when they grow up??? Either, one, dad smarten ups and leaves and as time goes they meet all these people they were never allowed to meet and one day actually think, hhhmmmmmm.

Or , they grow up and marry a controlling , abusive woman just like mom and you never see them or your grandchildren again…..

Either way, you are digging a bigger hole. 

And somewere inside , she knows. Her parents have told her, people have left, she drinks herself a box of wine every night…. she knows…