Blueberry Lane

Our almost two years of renting are about to come to an end. After selling our home in West Haven (on a busy street, with a tiny yard), renting for 20 months and waiting (hoping and praying) for housing prices to come down in this most expensive state...we are about to become homeowners again.
We found a home on Blueberry Lane in Stratford that is going to be perfect for us. It was built in 1965 and the inside looks like...1965. Brown kitchen, red carpet, and a pink bathroom. We put our vision goggles on and saw a home that was meant to be ours. It's smaller than we were looking for; but in a strange way, I'm kinda excited about the smaller size. We are going to SIMPLIFY: getting rid of excess furniture, cleaning fewer toilets, paying smaller utility bills. Sounds good to me. The yard is really what we fell in love with. It is on 1/3 of an acre (which is a nice, hard-to-find size around here). We are going to love seeing the kids run around in the backyard, planting a garden, and even putting an American flag on our flagpole. I will attest that having a bigger house on a smaller yard is not all it's cracked up to be. So we're going for the opposite effect...and I think it will be just dandy. And I got a deck (a first for us) and a fireplace (another first).
Hopefully we'll be moving around the beginning of August. We'll be rolling up our shirtsleeves and making our house a home. And I get to paint! Twenty months of white walls has about sapped out my creative juices. I'm so excited!
We'll keep you updated on our exact date to change our address.