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!"