Soooo Big!

This is something that my dear friend Tina now says, in her best "new mom voice," to indicate that I might possibly be making a new step toward adulthood: “Hey Tina, I think we might be buying a house!" "Oooo, Soooo big!” It’s cute coming from her. It would earn Dan or my brother a hearty smack.

There have been many steps towards adulthood recently it feels like. Calls to mortgage lenders and frank and useful discussions about our financial situation, then recovering from the disappointment of figuring out that we just can’t feel comfortable buying a house right now—even a newly remodeled house in a great neighborhood and in our price range with all new appliances and a walk in closet bigger than my last apartment!!!

Just today I have chalked up a few more tentative baby steps on the road to independent adulthood. This morning we retrieved a newly re-timing belted and tuned up Samwise from the shop. Taking the car in for preventative maintenance, like voluntarily taking myself to the dentist or asking the doctor for a booster shot, always feels very grown up. (I Hate taking cars in to the shop. Even when the mechanics are really nice and it ends up costing less than half the quote because they decide not to do some work that they think might be unnecessary!)

And yesterday I changed Glorfindel's tail light (almost) all by myself!

Today I had the BTI contract notarized and sent it off so I should be officially on my way to school in the fall. I’ve also begun studying anatomy to give myself a leg up and can name a goodly number of the bones and processes and foramen and sutures in the skull already! Now I just have to figure out what they do…

Finally, we also got our new futon cover. In a fit of homemaking fervor I dug out, and figured out how to hang, my piece of stained glass to accompany it. Tada!

After all of that I Do feel a bit like a toddler wobbling back to Mom with some treasure outstretched, some feat accomplished.

“Oooo, Sooo big!”