You Can't Always Get What You Want...

It has been a while since I posted and for good reason. San Antonio has given us some challenges that have tested our patience and our ability to accept that life doesn't always give you what you want. We have been house-hunting and spending all our free time concentrating on buying a new home for our new life here. After repeated postponements, glitches in paperwork, negotiating with banks and builders, we found a home we were excited about moving into. However, financial news on our rental property in Georgia, the day before closing, meant pulling out of the contract and the beginning of a frantic search for a rental here in San Antonio.

Rental properties have proven difficult to find, budget restrictions and high expectations do not mesh well as we are learning. :) Great properties are quick to rent and we looked at many homes that were already under contract... my advice for the management companies: if it's already rented, take it off the internet and stop wasting our time!

We have put an application on a home that we really like. It's in the same neighborhood as our friends and has all the features we need including a fridge and water softener! Now, it's just a waiting game and we hope to be moving on the 1st. Of course we are not getting our hopes up as nothing, since we arrived in San Antonio, has gone according to plan and we have been consistently disappointed. We are even exploring the idea that perhaps, sadly, San Antonio may not be the place we should be. As has been life for the past two months, we shall see.

Ella, in all of the transition has continued to grow into a great little person. She has taken all the house-hunting in stride and has a positive attitude about each house we drag her through. "This is my room!" or "I like a brown house, please!" "How about this one, it's pretty!"

Our fingers are crossed that the Georgia rental gets sorted out, and a move into the rental goes smoothly. At this point, we are optimistic and look to the universe with strength and say, "Bring it on!"

Burrrr.....

We are all still adjusting to the weather here, and though definitely not as cold as most of you have, we are still freezing our little tushes off. I must tell Ella, no less than 100 times a day, to put on her slippers or put on a sweater. She's much too used to bare feet and arms. When she is cold, she'll put together her outfit, heaven forbid she wear real clothes and not her Tinkerbell dress up dress.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I am ready to leave 2009 behind. It's had it's rough patches, but it's also been an amazing year as well. I am over it and looking forward to a very happy 2010. Bring on the new year in a new city with new friends and new adventures...and fingers crossed a new house. Goodbye 2009 HELLLLLLOOOOOOOO 2010! Happy New Year my friends & family! We are so blessed to have such great people in our lives, We love you! Have a great new year!

New Year's Eve excitement ...watching New York's Times Square celebration. We rang in the New Year, east coast time and Ella was in bed shortly after 11. Whoo-hoo the excitement was almost too much for her. ha ha ha!