I've got my big girl pants on now!!!!

What a month its been...Ben and I have been dipping our toes in the housing market to see if we can find a great deal that would be worth jumping in for. Well, we went and looked at some homes yesterday and after putting my big girl pants on for the first time, we are planning on making an offer on one of them. It's a 5 bed/4 bath house in Eagle Mountain. It's almost 2400 sq. feet and its on a short sale so its only 135,000. We're trying to keep our payments low because we don't want to be stuck with a crippling mortgage if Ben were to lose his job. We've seen too many friends laid off with no warning and its always looming in the back of my mind.

I was talking to Liz yesterday and told her that the only reservations we had was the location. But after some further discussion, Ben and I decided that we were close enough for him to carpool to work with some friends and it also makes him eligible for the $300 gas allowance at work. So even though its not any closer to family, its closer to some friends and it seems like it would be a great opportunity for us. Since its a short sale, there's a good possibility that we won't hear anything for a while, but we'll see what happens. For me to make such a big decision and not feel crazy is a big thing....I guess this is what it feels like to be a grown up.